The Hack Dibner Finals were held on Friday, December 2, 2022 from 4:00 - 6:00 pm in 5 MetroTech, LC400. The competition this year was fierce! In the end, the judges' scores in impact, feasibility, user experience, creativity, written proposal, and final pitch tallied up with Trick Coders taking the grand prize and Dibnerds scoring second. Fan favorite was easily Chirguse, with their fun, meme-inflected pitch.
Dibner Daily (Lokesh Sharma, Semi Hong)
Trick Coders (Priyanka Bose, Chandra Shekhar Pandey)
AuDA (Automatic Dibner Assistant) (Daniel Zhang, Junho So)
Chirguse (Chirayu Bhatt, Muskan Gandhi)
Digital Dibner (Joe Prakash, Igor Rodrigues)
Dinerds (Aditi Sharma, Rosie Wang, Christina Woo)
Ben Bayor, Dibner Library Student Assistant, NYU Libraries
Hebah Emara, Librarian for Open Innovation, NYU Libraries
Lisa Gayhart, Director of UX, NYU Libraries
Molly Ritmiller, Design Lab Manager, NYU MakerSpace
Nick Wolf, Head of Data Services, NYU Libraries
Hack Dibner is a design contest for the Fall 2022 semester hosted by NYU Tandon's Bern Dibner Library. Participants will be challenged to develop and present an idea that uses technology to improve user experience at Dibner, or within the greater NYU Libraries system.
Workshop #3: The Final Pitch
Monday, November 28
5:00 - 5:45 pm | Zoom
We walked through the Hack Dibner Finals run-of-show, give quick tips for pitches, and reminded teams of the judging criteria and judges.
Workshop #2: Literature Review & Methods
Friday, October 7
5:00 - 5:45pm | Zoom
We talked about how the literature alongside various research methods can be used to support the project's main judging categories of impact, feasibility, and user experience.
Workshop #1: Getting Started: Developing your idea, project management, & resources
Friday, September 30th
5:00- 5:30pm | Zoom
We drew inspiration (and some project slides) from former Hack Dibner winner Harrison In's (BTM '21) 2019 workshop. Harrison encouraged teams to think about disruptive vs. product innovation and provided an example from his winning team's project. This workshop also emphasized that teams should develop a project management plan now and focus on user experience, feasibility, and sustainability/impact, all major judging categories for the Hack Dibner Finals.
9 Teams submitted Initial Concepts and are competing to WIN
Dibner Daily (Lokesh Sharma, Semi Hong)
Trick Coders (Priyanka Bose, Chandra Shekhar Pandey)
AuDA (Automatic Dibner Assistant) (Daniel Zhang, Junho So)
Chirguse (Chirayu Bhatt, Muskan Gandhi)
Digital Dibner (Joe Prakash, Igor Rodrigues)
Nuclear Reactor (Ishwant Singh Bhayana)
Dibs on Dibner (Aditi Sharma, Rosie Wang, Christina Woo)
Silence (Ankit Singh)
Bibliotecha (Michael Batavia)
Hack Dibner Kick-off
Friday, September 9, 2022
Dibner Library, LC 433