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title: "Software-Developing Club, Foundation Combating Hate Violence Take Top Prizes at Do Good Challenge"
date: 2024-05-02T05:30:00-04:00
author: University of Maryland
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# Software-Developing Club, Foundation Combating Hate Violence Take Top Prizes at Do Good Challenge

*May 2, 2024* — by [Jenny Cox](/author/jenny-cox)


> $20K Competition Celebrates Student Solutions to Societal Issues


A new student club that creates software to solve real-world problems and a foundation that works to break down racial divides took the top prizes at the University of Maryland’s 12th annual Do Good Challenge.

The [App Dev Club](https://www.appdevclub.com/) (ADC), which helps computer science majors hone their skills while supporting socially impactful corporate initiatives, took home the $5,000 prize in the project category, along with the $2,500 Audience Choice Award. The [2nd Lt. Richard W. Collins III Foundation](https://www.richardcollinsfoundation.org/), named in honor of a Bowie State student slain on the UMD campus in 2017, won the $5,000 top prize for ventures. Teams competing on the project track focus on advocacy for an existing effort or cause, while the venture track focuses on a new program, nonprofit, business or product.

Four other finalists took a share of the more than $20,000 in prize money awarded in Tuesday evening’s competition, which drew hundreds of students, staff, faculty and community members to The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center to hear presentations from the teams.

“As we have seen, time and time again, the Terp community is passionate and wants to make a difference, not at some distant point in time, but today,” said UMD President Darryll J. Pines. “The teams that are competing tonight in the Do Good Challenge are part of that movement. They are part of how the University of Maryland will continue to transcend our campus and make the world a better, safer and more equitable place.”


*App Dev Club presents at Do Good Challenge*



**Sidebar note:**

The finals live stream is available on [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZz5_HtQRvw).





**Topics:** [Campus & Community](https://today.umd.edu/tags/campus-community)


**Tags:** [Academic Competitions](https://today.umd.edu/topic/academic-competitions), [Student Experience](https://today.umd.edu/topic/student-experience)


**Units:** [School of Public Policy](https://today.umd.edu/topic/school-public-policy)