Help us celebrate our 7th birthday this weekend at Hacky Birthday MLH! There will be cake!

Eligibility

This event open to hackers, all over the world, who are students at the time of the hackathon or who have graduated within the last 12 months. Students can include high school students, university undergraduate or postgraduate students, and people who are in vocational training such as apprenticeships.

As per our Code of Conduct, there is no discrimination on the basis of race, religion, national origin, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, social class, economic status, veteran status, disability, or age.

Requirements

You must submit a 2 minute (max) video demo!

Work must be entirely completed during the hackathon hours.

Hackathon Sponsors

Prizes

First Overall

MLH Swag + Snap Spectacles

Second Overall

MLH Swag + YubiKey Security Key

Third Overall

MLH Swag + Casio Calculator Watch

Your First Hackathon Birthday?!

If at least 50% of your team is first time hackers, happy hackathon birthday. To celebrate our beginner teams, you're automatically eligible for this prize category.

Our favorite team will take home Fujifilm Instax Cameras for each team member.

Best Hack for Hackers

We want you to build something that helps more people become hackers or become better hackers if they already are. We'd love see projects that educate or assist your fellow community members. Winning team will receive Snaptain s5C drones.

Best Hardware Hack presented by Digi-Key

Build a hardware hack with what you have at home or use emulators to simulate hardware for your hack. The best project will receive Arduino Starter Kits for each team member.

Best Domain Name from Domain.com

Register a domain using Domain.com during the weekend. Each team may submit one entry per person on the team. Each winning team member will receive a Domain.com branded backpack.

Best UiPath Automation Hack

Build or add automation to your hack using UiPath! Each winning team member will receive a Limited Edition UiPath Branded Backpack.

Best use of Google Cloud

Build your hackathon project with a suite of secure storage, powerful compute, and integrated data analytics products provided by Google Cloud. See full list of products here: g.co/cloud. Each winning team member will receive a Google Nest Mini.

Devpost Achievements

Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:

Judges

Major League Hacking

Major League Hacking

Prashant Singh

Prashant Singh

Samson Amaugo

Samson Amaugo

Gagan Bhatia

Gagan Bhatia

Sanket Parshuram Patil

Sanket Parshuram Patil
JSCOE

Konstantin Alekseev

Konstantin Alekseev

Jesslyn Tannady

Jesslyn Tannady

Tom Nudd

Tom Nudd
Durham CompSoc

Gagandeep Reehal

Gagandeep Reehal
Minus Zero

Rachel Jaffe

Rachel Jaffe
MLH

Yogendrasingh Pawar

Yogendrasingh Pawar

Dmytro Malashenko

Dmytro Malashenko

Judging Criteria

  • Originality
    Has this project been done before at hackathons in the past? How creative is their project in solving the problem at hand?
  • Technology
    How technically impressive was the hack? Was the technical problem the team tackled difficult? Did it use a particularly clever technique or did it use many different components? Did the technology involved make you go "Wow"?
  • Design
    Did the team put thought into the user experience? How well designed is the interface?
  • Completion
    Does the hack work? Did the team achieve everything they wanted?
  • Learning
    Did the team stretch themselves? Did they try to learn something new? What kind of projects have they worked on before?
  • Adherence to Theme
    Does the hack adhere to the event's theme? Does it implement that theme fully or just partially?

Questions? Email the hackathon manager

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