BACK ON TRACK HACK Grand Prize Winner
  • Type Experience
  • Level Foundational
  • Time Days
  • Cost Free
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BACK ON TRACK HACK Grand Prize Winner

Issued by Microsoft on behalf of NY MTA

This badge earner participated and was selected as part of the Winning Team in a remote Hack Challenge with NY MTA and its Metro-North Railroad. The event including both educational presentations and hacking sessions. The badge earner worked with peers, mentors and Microsoft Azure partners from a variety of disciplines including designers, mobile and web app developers, data engineers, data scientists to build a consumer mobile app based on the Azure platform and MTA Open Datasets.

  • Type Experience
  • Level Foundational
  • Time Days
  • Cost Free
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Earning Criteria

  • This badge earner and their teammates completed a 5-day team's based remote Civic Hack Challenge aimed at the development of consumer application for NY MTA and its Metro-North Railroad.  This earner and their teammates had their final project portfolio submission chosen as the best based on app usability, scalability and the use of the MTA supplied data sets by a 9-person judges panel.