A+ Team wins Chicago’s 1st Overnight Website Challenge
Several pounds of Peace Coffee and a hard day’s night later, the winner of The Nerdery Overnight Website Challenge is A+ Team for its nerdy deeds done pro bono for Southwest Chicago PADS.
Down two ill-stricken nerds just before Challenge weekend, A+ Team captain Chris Wilkinson pinged The Nerdery to assist in finding qualified replacements. Jason Crocker, who’d asked to fly stand-by should such an opportunity knock, promptly drove in from Cleveland to contribute to the winning effort.
Rounding out the Final Four of development teams and their respective nonprofits:
- Cloudbot (and Friends), serving Midwest Young Artists
- Drop Shadows Not Bombs, serving Crossroads Adoption Services
- Drupal Rocks, serving A Safe Haven Foundation
Honorably mentioned runners-up/co-winners:
- Awesome Dolphins and Friends, serving Near Northwest Arts Council
- Chamois Butter for Lunch, serving Peace Care
- Chicago on Rails, serving Kids Have Hope
- Greater Pixel Consortium, serving Institutio Del Progresso Latino
- Nerdery Bigfoot Research Consortium, serving Hemophilia Foundation of Illinois
- Team 13, serving Northwestern Settlement
Comprised of leaders from Chicago’s nonprofit and interactive communities, this independent panel of judges performed the double-duty of assessing applications of eligible nonprofits and judging the work of development teams during the last few hours of the 24-hour all-nighter:
- Melanie Adcock, tech blogger
- Joshua Brown, program manager, Taproot Foundation
- Randy Dill, founder and CEO, Chicago Non-Profit
- Cynthia Putnam, professor, College of Computing & Digital Media at DePaul University
Huge thanks to all who were a part of Chicago’s first-ever Nerdery Overnight Website Challenge. We’ll be back. Big thanks also to event sponsors DePaul University – College of Computing and Digital Media, and to our hosts, Resolution Digital Studios. Our in-kind sponsors were indeed kind as well, and they are: Chipotle; Dominos; Ergotron; Groupon; Peace Coffee; ThinkGeek; XS Energy Drink.
Good night, and good luck.
