Go Code Colorado Challenge Weekend occurs in fine cities across the state - Colorado Springs, Denver, Durango, Fort Collins and Grand Junction - from Friday evening, April 10th to Sunday evening April 12th. Teams in each of the five cities compete to build apps and businesses that use public data to help businesses make better-informed decisions. Two winning teams from each region will move on from the challenge and attend Mentor Weekend in Boulder (April 24-26) to further develop their ideas with Colorado's tech and entrepreneurial leaders. On May 21st, in Denver, the ten finalists will present their apps to a panel of judges who'll decide on the three best business and app ideas. The winners are awarded a contract with the state - which includes $25,000 for each of the top three winning teams. For more information regarding the events please visit: gocode.colorado.gov/events/

This is the second annul Go Code Colorado even bringing together a community of entrepreneurs, business partners and developers to make use of public data through a series of events.

Eligibility

YOU MAY ONLY COMPETE IF:

You are an individual legally residing in the fifty (50) United States or the District of Columbia.
You may participate if you are 14 years old or older. If you are under 18 years old, you must identify yourself as a minor and show proof that you received consent to participate from your parent or guardian before you will be eligible to participate.
You are a corporation, LLC, or other organization that is domiciled in the United States and properly formed at the time of entry.
If you are a team, corporation, or nonprofit organization, then all individual members must meet the eligibility requirements for individual participant

Hackathon Sponsors

Prizes

$75,000 in prizes

Cash Prize

3 winners

A mentor weekend in Boulder for the 10 semi-finalist teams, and $25,000 for the final three winning teams and a year contract with the State of Colorado

How to enter

Whether you are a developer, designer, marketer, thinker, entrepreneur or a general doer, it doesn’t matter — Colorado needs you! Building successful, sustainable apps with public data that local businesses can actually use will require all kinds of folks helping. This is hands-on economic development.

Challenge mission statement and team registration will be released on March 2nd.

Judges

Ingrid Alongi
CEO Quickleft

Bing Chou
VP of Product at Simpler

Nicole Gravagna
Chief Visionary at The Quandary Group

Erik Mitisek
CEO of Colorado Technology Association

Suma Nallapati
CIO and Secretary of Technology for the State of Colorado

Judging Criteria

Challenge Statement
App design must address to challenge statements.

Denver, Colorado, USA	Public
$75,000 in prizes	2 participants

Go Code Colorado Apps Challenge

Go Code Colorado was built to be better. Better than a hack-a-thon. Better than a startup event. We want to deliver value to Colorado businesses and create a vehicle for entrepreneurs and developers.