 Hey, I'm Dea Dohaul here at the first student codathon in DC. Today we're transforming data into different projects that we come up with ourselves. Codepan is essentially an event where a bunch of people get together. They're interested in data. They want to use data to help make their world better. They want to use data to help other people in their lives make decisions about their community to become more educated about the world they live in. We started this morning with all these raw data and we kind of sent them to one computer. As you can see right there we have most violent sky train stations. I actually want to go actually for this Google Street view for our school. Coming up with the idea of a plan for students to be able to walk through the school what would be really good is you could have the app on your phone. You can actually look at the crime rates in your neighborhood or attendance rates for schools in your neighborhood to play with ideas. And it's much more real and fun to do when you're looking at that than if you're looking at something abstract or something that has nothing to do with your community. Today we've decided why not make one easy accessible, fun mobile app that students can access so that they can find out all their scholarship information in one place. This is kind of what our app is going to look like. We've been working diligently to create a large catalog of about 2,600 data sets that are completely free for people to download and use. The primary purpose is to create openness, transparency into government as well as stimulate economic ability. People do things with data that they can then turn into some kind of business for themselves. That's a good thing. Eventually in the future everything will be like technology, right? And coding is definitely one of the most useful things that a person can know right now. We're kind of moving into a world with just a lot more data that's out there and more and more people want to look to that data in order to make decisions. This is all about managing data sets, information and really equipping students for all of the opportunities that will exist in the 21st century world. Being here has definitely opened my eyes to a whole new aspect of technology and knowing that it connects not just to computers and mobiles and things like that but that it connects to people and that people actually use this data, use this technology in their day-to-day lives. I think knowing that is going to drive me to continue with coding and attending student codathons.