Congratulations to Kathleen Tran, Francis Gelderloos, and Luqmaan Dawoodjee for being winners in the Mayor's Tampa Hack-a-thon 2012. Kathleen and Francis are Seniors in Computer Science, Luqmann is pursuing a minor in Computer Science. Kathleen, Francis, and Luqmaan were members of the SPARKTECH team that created an App – named HARTxt - to text the predicted arrival time of HART buses. An article in the Tampa Bay Times highlights their accomplishment, see here.

About 60 people competed in the event – many of them professional software developers from local industry.