University of Illinois’ Augmented Reality Drawing App Wins Facebook’s Camp Hackathon Competition

Facebook hosted the finals of its Camp Hackathon competition last night through today, featuring a face-off between winners of smaller hackathons on five college campuses. Young developers came to Facebook headquarters to create new applications in one night, where they would be judged by Facebook leaders including vice president of engineering Mike Schroepfer, director of design Kate Aronowitz and chief executive Mark Zuckerberg.

Facebook engineers were on hand through the night helping teams surmount development obstacles. Each team was also mentored by an alum from their school who is now an engineer for Facebook.

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