January 2012
Winner of the Stanford d.schools’s inaugural Hackathon
Lead a team to “help bring design thinking to the world” by creating Overlay.d, a platform that allows designers to overlay and annotate websites with design notes, and aspiring designers to learn by example. More info at the Hack.d website.
January 2011
Winner of Twilio and TechStars “Two for One” contest
Created an SMS nutrition information application for Twilio’s cloud VoIP platform. Send a text message to 415-729-3599, and include the name of some food you’d like to get information about (e.g. “McDonalds Cheeseburger” or “Chipotle Burrito”). More details at http://blog.twilio.com/2011/01/roger-pincombe-combines-twilio-sms-with-dailyburn-to-win-trip-to-boston.html.
July 2010
Microsoft Intern Windows Phone 7 App Development Competition
Created Headliner, a premium RSS reader for Windows Phone 7. Voted first place among all intern submissions by several senior Microsoft employees and executives. Find out more at http://rogerpincombe.com/headliner-a-windows-phone-7-rss-reader.
May 2010
Professional Excellence Award Recipient from GA Tech College of Computing
Recognized by the Georgia Tech College of Computing for representing the college in a professional and engaging manner when dealing with corporations, organizing corporate events for students, and helping students obtain “real world” professional opportunities.
March 2010
Second Place Winner in Yahoo University Programming Competition at GA Tech
Week-long university-wide programming competition hosted by Yahoo. Developed and implemented an algorithm to automatically filter email by importance and priority, based on training of past usage (flagging or replying to email). For more information about the competition, visit http://developer.yahoo.com/hacku, or to find out more about my invention, visit http://www.importancefilter.com.
May 2009
Grand Prize Winner in the Georgia Tech “Inventure Prize” Competition
Recognized for innovative excellence and entrepreneurial spirit in the inaugural year of Gerogia Tech’s prestigious Inventure Prize competition. More information at: http://inventureprize.gatech.edu.
March 2008
First Place National Winner in Yahoo University Programming Competition
Week-long national programming competition hosted by Yahoo. For more information about the competition, visit http://developer.yahoo.com/hacku/pasthacks.html, or to find out more about my winning invention DialPrice, a VoIP-based price checking system for non-smartphones, visit http://www.dialprice.com.