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In the Youth House there was a pre-start meeting of the hackathon HackDay, which will be held on October 27-29 in Penza, on Rollerdrome "Olympic". The meeting was attended by more than 30 people, among them: students, top management of development companies.
 
The main goal of the pre-start meeting is to brainstorm and come up with bright ideas for the future hackathon.
 
Maxim Semenkin, chairman of the SECON Association, spoke about who, how and why can participate in HackDay and contribute to the development of the project. Eugenia Sotina, Executive Director of the SECON Association, brainstormed the ideas of projects in the "mini-hakaton" format without elaboration, but with the distribution of nominations. Participants of the event were offered 10 minutes to generate as many ideas as possible. Having done this work, the participants had to choose the best projects and guess in which of the nominations this project could have won.
 
As a result, at the pre-start meeting, the Startup nomination was given to the following ideas:

- AlcoTinder "Will you be the third?"
 
- Shaurma online will help to book shaurma.
 
- And others: intrusive bot-motivator, which can not be removed; InstaSector; GamePad; A tourist route with augmented reality, when you point at a monument / building, the phone displays information about it.
 
On the nomination "Hack" the most suitable were:
 
- Free music for Vk and Facebook;

- "An expensive alarm clock", which will withdraw money from an amateur card to sleep;

- The application "Wagtogram" makes a photo when the phone shakes;
 
And others: Scale calculator for architects; Voice unlock screen; The effect of presence; BotEEG.
 
On the nomination "Tech" on the hackathon, the TeamViewer lite project will be claimed among others - the device will help to manage the PC through the phone.

A new nomination for HackDay was offered by mega-sponsor of the hackaton, the company "Tortuga". A cup with the stamp of Entertainment will be given out for the best game or entertainment project. From the proposed on the brainstorming to this nomination could be attributed: BarberFerm, in which instead of the garden you need to grow a beard and take care of it, and play on the bluetooth Time baller.

There are ten days left for the hackathon - anyone can still suggest an idea, to assemble a team and to perform a shock at HackDay. Recall that in each of the nominations of the event there are prizes for teams. So, the winner's team in the Tech nomination will be presented with electronic books PocketBook 614 Plus, the winners in the nomination Hardware will receive portable batteries, in the category Hack-action camera Xiaomi Yi Camera. Winners of the Startup nomination will receive two months of free acceleration in the Accelerator of the business incubator of the Higher School of Economics.