BACK ON TRACK HACK Participant
  • Type Experience
  • Level Foundational
  • Time Days
  • Cost Free
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BACK ON TRACK HACK Participant

Issued by Microsoft on behalf of NY MTA

This badge earner participated 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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Skills

Earning Criteria

  • This badge earner 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.  To qualify, the badge earner had to be part of 5-7 person team, contribute in the hacking sessions and submit a final project portfolio to be evaluated by 9-person judges panel that included MTA employees, community advocates and professionals from the developer and data science disciplines.