6A - Monday, November 14, 2011 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com 6A - Monday, November14, 2011 The Michigan Daily - michigandailycom STUDENT START-UPS Ann Arbor entrepreneurs participate in Hacka2thon As part of Circle K Service Day, Engineering junior Nick Hunter pies LSA junior Chris Cannon at the Ginsberg Center yester- day morning. All proceeds from the event go to The Eliminate Project, which aims to fight maternal and neonatal tetanus. Students volunteer in 24-hr. annual Circle K Service Day G s he' Mai comm the ye oppor Arbor consec The Circle annua from 7 yester from t and o versity and N unteer nonpr comm and Ar roup members LSA senior and Circle K presi- dent Vivian Yu said she saw the volunteer at event as a way to bring more k Dservice opportunities to campus and make it more available for t . students. iters, nonprofits "For people who normally By KATIE BURKE wouldn't do service, this is one Daily StaffReporter chance out of the entire year for them to get involved," Yu said. The annual event began in ny students participate in 2005 to encourage community unity service throughout service participation among stu- ar, but they only have one dents. tunity to serve the Ann "(Circle K) saw a need on cam- and Detroit areas for 24 pus for service to be highlight- cutive hours. ed," Yu said. "The 24-hour event University's chapter of is a good way to highlight it." K International held their On Saturday, participat- 1 24-hour Service Day ing students volunteered at the a.m. Saturday until 7 a.m. Kiwanis Thrift sale in downtown day. Participating students Ann Arbor. Students picked up he University of Michigan donations, handed out flyers and thers from Purdue Uni- worked as cashiers at the inter- y, Wayne State University national service organization's orthwood University vol- crowded thrift store. Kiwanis ed at homeless shelters, International is the parent orga- ofit organizations and nization of Circle K. unity gardens in Detroit Ron Gardner, a former presi- nn Arbor. dent of Kiwanis, said the event was valuable for everyone involved. "I view it as a win-win situa- tion," Gardner said. "We benefit from their being here to help us. They benefit by having a chance to contribute back to the commu- nity through their service here." Later in the afternoon, stu- dents spent time cleaning and organizing the student-run apparel store, The Vintage Twin on South University Avenue. Business senior Samantha Elias, owner of The Vintage Twin, said she was thankful for the extra help. "I need them," Elias said. "It's such a blessing. The whole store is a collaborative effort, but we need the muscle." LSA junior Megan Brown, a member of Circle K, volunteered for all 24 hours. As the event entered the later hours, Brown said the volunteers' collective energy increased. "Everyone is really excited and tired and having a good time," she said. At three-day event, participants create mobile applications By RAYZA GOLDSMITH Daily StaffReporter Sleep-deprived, burgeon- ing entrepreneurs in the Ann Arbor area convened yesterday to put the finishing touches on start-up endeav- ors as part of a v k three-day event focused on the development of o innovative busi- ness models. This week- end, North Quad Residence Hall and the University TechArb hosted Hacka2thon, an event for programmers and entrepre- neurs, in which about 45 Uni- versity students and Ann Arbor residents teamed up to execute entrepreneurial projects, par- ticularly on new digital media platforms. The participants had only 36 hours - Friday after- noon to Sunday afternoon - to complete their projects. University alum Scott Goci, the event organizer, said he came up with the idea because he wanted to create an event that emphasized Ann Arbor's innovation, hence the "a2" in the name. "I really wanted this event to be about pushing entrepre- neurship from Ann Arbor," Goci said. "I don't want the next big company to come from Silicon Valley. I want it to come from Ann Arbor." Hacka2thon was sponsored by several technology power- houses such as Microsoft, the University's Center for Entre- preneurship, Ann-Arbor based software development company Menlo Innovations and API company Twilio Cloud Commu- nications. Goci said he modeled Hack- a2thon off Startup Weekend - an entrepreneurship event hosted in different cities around the world. The first ever Start- up Weekend in Ann Arbor was hosted at the University in Jan- uary with more than 125 par- ticipants. Since Startup Weekend hap- pens only once a year, Goci said he wanted to give local residents additional opportunities to attend entrepreneurial events. Goci hopes Hacka2thon will be held two or three times a year so people have various opportuni- ties to attend events that foster innovative creation. Engineering sophomore Miguel Sanchez and his team won the award for best mobile application. They created a social map for Ann Arbor to highlight event and party loca- tions on a city map. Sanchez said he had never participated in a hackathon before but would like to do it again. Another Hacka2thon par- ticipant, LSA senior Adam Rice, won best application for Goosecast - an application through which users can blog live events by creating an event link and automatically upload- ing pictures and other content for users to view. Rice said he eventually would like to run the non-technical aspects of a business, and he attended Hacka2thon to meet people and gain experience in building applications. "I really believe in what wg have," Rice said of the product his team created. "It's a really cool product. I mean, people in here were loving it. They were using it in here already." School of Information stu- dent Gierad Laput was part of the group Si-Chi, which created a program that he described as a mix between a task list and Doodle - a web application that allows groups of people to coor- dinate schedules. Laput said the purpose of the project is to provide teachers with a tool td track students' progress as thej fill out online checklists provide ed by the instructor. Laput added that he had nevet participated in a hackathos before but would love to par, ticipate in the future because of what he learned about the start up process and teamwork. Michigan resident Min Chan, who works for a company that develops applications tha help people learn Chinese, sai4 she attended Hacka2thon fo the experience of working on a start-up in a short period o time. "I really like the concept of taking something from develop- ment all the way to completion in three days," Chan said. "That way we can show ourselves that we can do something really fast." Chan said Ann Arbor's Hack- athon was unique from other' she has been to because there was a focus on entrepreneur- ship asopposed to justprogram- ming, which she said created a more enjoyable atmosphere. 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