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PennApps is the University of Pennsylvania's bi-annual hackathon event. The University’s best entrepreneurs and programmers will team up over a weekend to build amazing applications. This event is hosted by the Dining Philosophers (Penn’s computer science club) and other campus groups.

• When: January 14-16, 2011
• Where: At the Weiss Tech House, on Penn's campus (Levine Hall, Room 266)
• What: The event begins on Friday evening with tech talks about mobile development, frameworks, and API integration. Hacking continues until Sunday, followed by judging.
• Who: Any University Students are eligible, at Penn or beyond.
• Platform: Students are not limited by their development stack. Tech Talk crash-courses on various topics from basic mobile development with current smartphones to pertinent APIs and frameworks will be given at the start of the competition. Hosting will be provided.
• Focus: PennApps Mobile focuses exclusively on applications for mobile phones. Beyond that, a particular theme will be announced the day of the event.
• Judging: Competition entries will be judged by a panel consisting of entrepreneurs and industry experts.

Rules:

Here is the link to the rules.

How you can help:

• Sponsor us. We are looking for a number of partners to help fund PennApps Mobile. Both financial and barter-based sponsorships are available.
• Demonstrate or share your API or framework. If you have a useful API or framework that students could use in their projects, consider speaking with us about it. At a minimum, one of the organizers could give a tech talk about why and how to use your API or framework, though we'd prefer if you sent someone from your team to speak. If your API is private, consider sharing a number of API keys with us that we could pass on to students.

How you benefit:

• Support innovation. The applications students build will generate new ideas and move us forward technologically.
• Build awareness for your company. Penn students are highly-sought within industry; sponsoring an event for students lets them know how cool your company is and seek you out once they are looking for jobs or internships.
• Build awareness for your product. Sponsoring PennApps Mobile lets Penn students know about the services you provide and puts you in consideration the next time they are in need of it.