In 2021, Team Air Fryer (Danni Qu and Yezi Xu) took home first place for their room-booking kiosk. Second place was Bibliotech (Melody Yap and Rohan Bhalla), third place Wanderer (Deyin Zhang and Jiayin Fan), and audience favorite was Bookfellas (Riccardo Negro, Sakshi Garg, Hrituja Khatavkar, and Stuti Biyani). Teams competed on Friday, December 3rd, delivering 8-10 minute pitches to a panel of judges. The judges scored the teams' proposals on feasibility, impact, contextual inquiry/user experience, and creativity. The 2021 judges were: Prof. Regine Gilbert, Technology Culture, and Society Dept., NYU Tandon; Harini Kannan, UX Analyst, NYU Libraries; Liz New, Assistant Manager, NYU Tandon MakerSpace; Serita Sargent, Lead Student Assistant, NYU Dibner Library. Click here to watch the Zoom Recording of Hack Dibner Finals.
2021 Hack Dibner Finalists:
Q-Lib (Utkarsha Chourasia and M V D Satya Swaroop)
BiblioTech (Melody Yap, Rohan Bhalla)
Air Fryer (Danni Qu and Yezi Xu)
BookFellas (Riccardo Negri, Sakshi Garg, Hrituja Khatavkar, Stuti Biyani)
Nap Dibner (Calvin Tian, Aneesh Maganti, Edward Han)
Wanderer (Deyin Zhang and Jiayin Fan)
The first place team in the Hack Dibner 2019 competition was Tandonnect (Vikram Sakkia, Michelle La, and Chengfeng Luo). Their proposal was an app to connect students in study groups. Read more about their idea, and the 2019 competition, on the Tandon website: https://engineering.nyu.edu/news/students-hack-dibner-improve-library-experience
The runners up were team Hush (Zeru Zhang, Shubham Desai, Satish Reddy Bethi). Read more about their experience in the competition, and see a video of their prototype, in Satish Reddy Bethi's Linkedin post: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/hush-runnerup-hack-dibner-2019-satish-reddy-bethi?trk=public_profile_article_view
2019 was a fierce competition! Congrats to all of the finalists:
Top Boy (Dajr Alfred)
Team Epiphany (Bharti Kakker, Isha Vipul Dave)
Pandas (Kevin Lin, Mahika Jain)
The Outliers (Tanya Saini, Adil Hashim, Tanmay Dureja)
In 2018, Team Dibs won first place (Idriss Dimson, Harrison In, Yurou Zeng, Michael Hatoum, and Melissa Canavan) for their study room reservation app. The runners up were team Closure (Abhinav Sharma and Utkarsh Prakash) for their bluetooth library wayfinding app, complete with haptics to direct vision-impaired patrons. Team Dibs, Team Closure, and other Hack Dibner finalists are pictured above, along with library mentors Dr. Matthew Frenkel, Lindsay Anderberg, and Mikolaj Wilk. You can read more about Hack Dibner 2018 in this article on the Tandon website: https://engineering.nyu.edu/news/tandon-students-check-out-how-improve-user-experience-dibner-library
HACK DIBNER 2018 FINALISTS
Team Bots with Dots (Puru Agrawal, Tanya Saini, Adil Hashim, Harman Singh Chawla)
Team Simple Library (Timur Mukhtarov, Marium Sultan, Arystan Tatishev)
Team Gauranga (Nipun Dixit, Nehal Agarwal, Karan Katliwala)
Team LMG (Nan Lin, Yanjun Meng, Junjie Ge)
Team Benevolence (Marc Jaboin)