{"id":47319,"date":"2023-10-20T15:53:16","date_gmt":"2023-10-20T15:53:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/startupsmart.test\/2023\/10\/20\/presentify-wins-inaugural-sydney-hackathon-startupsmart\/"},"modified":"2023-10-20T15:53:16","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T15:53:16","slug":"presentify-wins-inaugural-sydney-hackathon-startupsmart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/uncategorized\/presentify-wins-inaugural-sydney-hackathon-startupsmart\/","title":{"rendered":"Presentify wins inaugural Sydney Hackathon – StartupSmart"},"content":{"rendered":"
An app that turns articles into formatted web presentations has won the inaugural Sydney Hackathon, the first 24-hour tech start-up event of its kind in Australia.<\/p>\n
<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Presentify, a team of three students, emerged from a field of 32 contestants to take out the top prize, winning $1,500 and the chance to develop the app into a commercial product.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The app turns any article on publisher Elsevier\u2019s SciVerse platform into an HTML5 presentation, auto-filling areas such as section titles, images and charts.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Second place went to SciPlay, a game that quizzes users of the SciVerse platform about the article they are reading. Third spot was handed to Macadeima, a search aid for articles and video content within the platform.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Teams were comprised of a mixture of students and professionals, with a full-time Google developer lending his help to the SciPlay team.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Elsevier, which sponsored the event, flew several executives out from the US to help judge the event, which was held in conjunction with the University of Sydney.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n