CCI students finish second in regional hackathon

College of Computing and Informatics alumnus Hakim Touati and graduate students Fadi Mohsen, Saeed Al-haj and Mohammed Al-saleh finished second in “The Money Event (TME) Charlotte Challenge Hackathon.”

This regional event, held in the PORTAL Building, was one of several competitions sponsored around the world. The CCI team created a mobile solution called “SkipLine” that helps customers skip checkout lines at busy bakeries or coffee shops. The winning team was comprised of professional developers with three to four years of experience.

Should the CCI team decide to carry this idea to fruition and begin a startup, it will receive a BizSpark license from Microsoft, which provides $25,000 worth of software to get a young technology company ready to launch and grow.