Some of my Honors & awards

I'm thrilled to have been recognized with several honors and awards in technology and accessibility!
These accolades celebrate my passion for creating innovative and user-friendly Chrome extensions and web tools.

Awards & Honors

Forbes 30 under 30 2020

After years of struggling in school, Robert James Gabriel was finally diagnosed with dyslexia at the age of 16. So after majoring in computer science and working at Teamwork.com, he founded Helperbird, a browser extension called Helperbird

Best use of Open Source Tools

Awarded for my use into machine learning alogorthims and cutting edge tools, such as node.js, Material design along more.

Overall Best Poster & Project 2016

Awarded for my use into machine learning alogorthims and cutting edge tools, such as node.js, material design, and more.

Imagine Cup National Runner Up

Following on from our success in 2014, I entered the Imagine Cup 2015 with a innovative exercise app called CrossTrainr. The application was designed to connect individuals with a desire to exercise but found it hard to find people with a similar interest. Designed for use in large cities, it was designed to create a network of people for completing exercise. We received great feedback and support from Microsoft employees and management on the concept at a visit to Microsoft's offices in Dublin on the 23rd of April 2015. The Microsoft employees encouraged us to pursue the idea after the competition to a fully functional business. Until I have exhausted all avenues with the concept I am reluctant to give any more information on the idea.

Imagine Cup National Runner Up

Developed a project called Yeti for the Microsoft Imagine Cup 2014. The project earned 2nd place in the innovation category for all of Ireland. The project resized images and videos to reduce bandwidth and speed up load times. Also developed was Yoursear.ch

Hatchery Scholarship For Innovation

Over the summer months in 2012 five student projects were developed into businesses by students who attended the Rubicon full-time. Over the summer they attended weekly training workshops, covering many topics, which enabled the student entrepreneurs to produce a completed business plan by September. The students received financial assistance from the School of Business, the School of Engineering and Science, the Department of Media Communications and from Crawford College of Art and Design.

Abbott Runner-Up Award

I totally forgot about this. For a local computation called Scifest , I built a tablet out of an old laptop. Added a touch screen panel, progammed a interface and bunch of apps for it. Then made a custom shell for it. It was madness but I can second place. Won the Abbott award.

The Most Technically Innovative Award

The Most Technically Innovative Award of €2,000 went to Project Bird, an award winning software studio focusing on windows and web 2.0 developments. The team is made up Robert Gabriel and Tadhg Foley, both students in Computing (IT Management), at CIT.

The Most Technically Innovative Award

The Most Technically Innovative Award of €2,000 went to Project Bird, an award winning software studio focusing on windows and web 2.0 developments. The team is made up Robert Gabriel and Tadhg Foley, both students in Computing (IT Management), at CIT.

Maths and Algorthims

Robert Gabriel from Scoil Mhuire Gan Smal in Blarney, who came second in the Chemical, Physical & Mathematical Sciences Senior Individual category for his project ' A new algorithm to improve the gathering of information on mobile. This later become the Yeti engine

Technology 2nd place

Robert Gabriel, a fifth year student from Scoil Mhuire gan Smál in Blarney, won the favour of the judges with his project “Automated Monitoring of Computer SQL Servers by way of a Merit”. This later became Tallus

Sci Fest Award : For Progamming x 5

SciFest is a series of one-day science fairs for second-level students hosted at local level in schools and at regional level in the Institutes of Technology, culminating in a national competition for the overall winners from the institutes. The project consists of four distinct strands – local, regional, national and international. This was a project that was made in 24 hours.

HEANet Special Award

The project which shows the most practical and innovative use of network technology in performing background research for the project and/or collaborating with other team members, teachers etc.

Avaya Communications Special Award

Avaya Incis a privately held global provider of business communications and collaboration systems. The international headquarters is in Basking Ridge, New Jersey, United States. The company provides contact centers, networking (routers, switches and other networking hardware), unified communications, and video products (integrated hardware and software) solutions and services.

All Ireland TItle

A web application that is fully developed and available to use; it must be fully working. It should be user friendly, useful and innovative.

Junior Spider Awards: Best Application

A web application that is fully developed and available to use; it must be fully working. It should be user friendly, useful and innovative.

Teamwork Hackathon 2015 : Runner Up

Create a internal website , social website in 24 hours. It was voted as second best would of 15 ideas. Cannot say any more :)

Everyday Excellence Award

Reason: Doing amazing job and I was impressed to see what awesomeness he is cooking for the website and maybe a future update of it. Nice to have him on board!

Everyday Excellence Award

Reason: We’re delighted to have Robert as a full-time member of the team now. He’s already made great improvements to the teamwork.com codebase, with loads more planned, a lot of it being behind-the-scenes improvements which most people don’t see/realise.

Everyday Excellence Award

Reason: We’re delighted to have Robert as a full-time member of the team now. He’s already made great improvements to the teamwork.com codebase, with loads more planned, a lot of it being behind-the-scenes improvements which most people don’t see/realise.

Everyday Excellence Award

Reason: We’re delighted to have Robert as a full-time member of the team now. He’s already made great improvements to the teamwork.com codebase, with loads more planned, a lot of it being behind-the-scenes improvements which most people don’t see/realise.

Everyday Excellence Award

Reason: We’re delighted to have Robert as a full-time member of the team now. He’s already made great improvements to the teamwork.com codebase, with loads more planned, a lot of it being behind-the-scenes improvements which most people don’t see/realise.

Above and Beyond the Call of Duty

Reason: Doing amazing job and I was impressed to see what awesomeness he is cooking for the website and maybe a future update of it. Nice to have him on board!

The Faculty of Engineering & Science Scholar

Who received the accolade 'Faculty Scholar' in recognition of his achievement of earning the top grade in his class.

Lightening Talk Smackdown Winner

A talk on A starting point to get you started with creating or converting your existing website/webapp into a Progressive Web App. Includes a service worker template.

Google Scholarship Awards

Top 1,000 students will be awarded scholarships to the Front-End Web Developer Nanodegree Program.

Project Cover Grant winner

Cover is a non-profit that gifts small grants to driven people. Our mission is to extend access to knowledge, networks, and opportunities to those who are working hard to achieve great things.

Abe;s Curated $100 Micro Grant

I (Abe) am creating a monthly $100 grant to create CC0, CC-BY, CC-BY-SA or GPL (compatible) art, code, hardware designs, etc.