Noah and Parker’s graduate alma mater, Tufts University, topped the “gold medal winners” list, and while the description leaned heavily on Twitter and Facebook for all contestants, both EduDemic and collegesurfing.com specifically cited Tufts’ “Spark” project. Parker was part of the original Spark team as part of his graduate work, hacking blog software and working on the XSLT bridges Spark used to tie together the project components.