Bloomberg and AT&T Hack Kids Cutting Class

English: New York Mayor, Michael R. Bloomberg. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Nearly one in every five New York City students misses a month of school each year. In order to combat chronic absenteeism, the Mayor’s Interagency Task Force on Truancy and NYC Digital are teaming up with AT&T for a two-day hackathon.  The Mobile App Hackathon Competition invites the city’s brightest tech talent as well as students and teachers to create apps that strengthen students’ success and reduce truancy.

Speakers include:

Leslie Cornfeld, Chair of the Mayor’s Interagency Task Force on Truancy, Chronic Absenteeism & School Engagement

Marissa Shorenstein, President, AT&T New York

Alex Donn, AT&T Developer Program

Andrew Nicklin, NYC DoITT

Rachit Shukla, CEO, Two Toasters

Tian He, Co-Founder/VP of Technology, Gojee

Max Katz, Head of Community and Developer Relations, Tiggzi

Zohar Babin, Kaltura

Anthony Cuellar, Pearson

The Mobile App Hackathon Competition

AT&T

33 Thomas St.

New York, NY 10007

Oct. 12, 2012 at 6:00 pm

More info on The Mobile App Hackathon Competition is available here.