Congratulations to the winners of the first ever TeenTechGLOBAL Civic Hackathon, our world-wide civic hackathon! The eight finalists were the winners of multiple local TeenTech-organized hackathons and a global wild card section, where participants were asked to solve a civic issue with technology. For the finals, they expanded their hackathon projects for 48 additional hours and created a 3-minute pitch video. The video pitches of all the finalists follow.

1st Place: Voicepedia

2nd Place: EduVoice

3rd Place: perCv

New Hacker Award: Amal

Finalists:

SmartShelter

Flyer

OpenDoors

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The TeenTech World Pitch Finals were judged by a panel of industry professionals:

• Madhavi Bhasin, Technovation Global Partners Director
• Christine Matheney, Developer Evangelist, Microsoft/FIRST Robotics
• Dan Zevin, Bay Area Teen Science Founder; Co-Chair: Coalition for Education and Outreach, UC Berkeley
• Maggie Cox, World Affairs Council Board of Trustees
• Bob Asadorian, Peace Corps Technology Transfer
• Libby Falck, Resilience Challenge Founder
• Marc Robert Wong, TeenTechSF Founder & Global Chair