Hacking Education: A Contest
for Developers and Data Crunchers

use data about teacher requests and donations to make discoveries and build apps that improve education in America. Help to shape your school system's budget by revealing what teachers really need.

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Ten years ago, a teacher in the Bronx launched DonorsChoose.org. Since then, more than 165,000 teachers at 43,000 public schools have posted over 300,000 classroom project requests, inspiring $80,000,000 in giving from 400,000 donors who performed over a million search queries and made more than a million donations.

We've opened up that data, and invite you to make discoveries and build apps that improve education in America. Help to shape your school system's budget by revealing what teachers really need. Build the first mobile app for hyper-local education philanthropy. We've got a list of suggestions to help get you thinking.

We hope to build a community of developers and data crunchers, so we're launching a contest! The Big Winner will be chosen from from the top finishers in each category:

Data Analysis
Judges: Joel Klein, Jane Viau
Prize: Findings turned into a beautiful infographic by Column Five Media Google Nexus S mobile phone
$1,000 DonorsChoose.org gift card
(Top 4 runners-up will also get Column Five infographics!)

Additional categories are:

• Javascript
• .NET
• PHP
• Python
• Ruby
• Wildcard

For additional information and to participate, see

www.donorschoose.org/hacking-education