This past Friday I ran a third iteration of Pitchfest. The first one was last may (link). I also ran Pitchfest in the Winter but that one was smaller. We had 36 students forming 17 teams from 9 CUNY campuses. We also had a bunch of tech professionals. There were more entries that we couldn't accomodate but the 17 teams along with the tech professionals basically filled the room to capacity.

Although retired, I'm trying to keep some skin in the game. An opportunity to do that came up back in mid march when my friend Aankit Patel reached out to me. I've known Aankit since he ran CSforAll for the NYC Department of Education but now he's the University Dean for Tech and Computer and Info Sciences at CUNY. Aankit told me he had some extra funds to run an event and asked if I wanted to organize and run a hackathon for CUNY students.