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Date Published
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Rahim Sonawalla
Word count
226
Language
English
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Summary

Matt Fischer, the Information Services Director of the Connecticut Intersolastic Athletic Conference (CIAC), has won the Twilio for Sports contest by successfully integrating a phone prompt system with Twilio's API to retrieve scores for high school sports in Connecticut. The current format allows users to retrieve scores by calling a phone number or texting a specific code, and Fischer improved this by providing additional features such as schedules of unplayed games and result requests for specific schools. He achieved this integration by hooking the system up to Twilio's API, which was a straightforward process according to him.