April 20, 2015
Computer science major Pranav Gokhale ’15 and his hackathon team brought home the “audience choice” award award from this month’s Hackathon for Social Good in the Arab World, held at New York University Abu Dhabi. “My team built a toll-free hotline and web system designed to help migrant workers learn their constitutional rights in their own languages,” he said. “I made sure to wear my Princeton shirt for the award ceremony.”
Gokhale, who was nominated by the Princeton Computer Science Department, is a hackathon veteran. He won second place at HackPrinceton’s fall event in 2013 for an application that allowed iPhone 5S owners to use the fingerprint sensor on their phones to sign in to password-protected websites like Facebook and Gmail (see Princeton Alumni Weekly’s article).
