The pinnacle of DragonHacks 2024 is the CodeCrafters.io Special Prize, awarded to the team that not only excels in innovation, execution, and impact but also demonstrates outstanding skill across all criteria. This year, CodeCrafters.io is thrilled to provide $10,000 in AWS Credits to help the winning team scale their project to new heights. These credits offer the resources necessary to enhance your application's capabilities, leveraging the power and flexibility of Amazon Web Services.

This award will be given to the team with beginner hackers.

This must be every team member's first hackathon.

Prize: JBL Clip 4: Portable Speaker with Bluetooth, Built-in Battery, Waterproof and Dustproof Feature - Black ( for every team member)

Craft innovative solutions that shatter barriers, ignite passion for learning, and elevate the educational experience. Harness the power of technology to unlock new frontiers, fostering inclusivity, engagement, and academic excellence for all. This category honors projects that leverage technology to transform education.

Prize: Acer 27" IPS Monitor

Craft spellbinding experiences that captivate audiences with unparalleled creativity. The Entertainment & Interaction Track Prize honors the team that delivers the most engaging and immersive project, designed to entertain and captivate audiences. This category celebrates innovations in gaming, virtual reality, augmented reality, interactive storytelling, and other forms of digital entertainment that push the boundaries of creativity and engagement.

Prize: Nintendo Switch Lite

Unleash your innovative prowess and safeguard the digital and physical realms! Craft cutting-edge solutions that shield our modern lives from lurking threats. From fortifying cyber defenses to revolutionizing physical security, let your creativity soar as you engineer groundbreaking personal safety marvels. Innovate wearable devices, smart home solutions, or cutting-edge apps that empower individuals to feel secure in any environment.

Prize: 50 inch 4K UHD Smart Google TV

The Organizers' Choice Award will be given to the team organizers deem the best.

Prize: CanaKit Raspberry Pi 4 2GB Starter PRO Kit - 2GB RAM (for every member)

Number of Winning Teams: Up to 5 {$45 Premium API Credits per team member}

This prize will be awarded to the teams that demonstrate the most innovative use of the Verbwire API. We're looking for creative and unique applications that push the boundaries of what's possible with Verbwire's technology. Stand out by showing how your project can redefine industry standards or solve complex problems in novel ways.

Number of Winning Teams: Up to 15 {$45 Premium API Credits per team member}

This track rewards teams who excel in utilizing AI and the Verbwire API to build innovative applications. Participants are encouraged to leverage MagicPilot.ai by Verbwire, a tool designed for developing Web3 programs powered by AI. This is an opportunity to explore cutting-edge technology and showcase your skills in a competitive environment..

M5GO IoT Starter Kit
MongoDB Atlas takes the leading modern database and makes it accessible in the cloud! Get started with a $50 credit for students or sign up for the Atlas free forever tier (no credit card required). Along with a suite of services and functionalities, you'll have everything you need to manage all of your data, and you can get a headstart with free resources from MongoDB University! Build a hack using MongoDB Atlas for a chance to win a M5GO IoT Starter Kit for you and each member of your team.

Starknet Care Package for Coders
Starknet is redefining the very notion of Web3 by tackling one of the most intimidating technical challenges in the industry - scaling a blockchain while maintaining its security and decentralization.

Starknet was the first general purpose ZK-Rollup service on Ethereum in Feb. 2022, and has proved its potential to be a market leader. Essentially, it increases the processing speed, while reducing the cost of operating on the Ethereum blockchain.

As a result, we are seeing a variety of “traditional” tech businesses - payments / social media / AI / online gaming - now being integrated with blockchains using our technology.

Moreover, the Starknet community is a growing pool of global talent - from feisty college students to some of the most illustrious PhDs in the world.

Wireless Headphones
Taipy is a powerful yet easy to use open-source Python library for creating full stack web applications! If you’re a Python developer, this library enables you to build interactive and dynamic graphical user interfaces and support them with data-driven backends. All of these functionalities are just a pip install taipy away and can cut your development time in half! Use Taipy in your hackathon project for a chance to win a set of Wireless Headphones for you and each of your team members, as well as a chance to have your project featured on the Taipy website!

Blue Snowball Microphone & a Free .Tech Domain Name for Life!
Make your Team's Achievements timeless: Win a .Tech Domain Name for Life to Showcase and Expand Your Project, Plus 4 Blue Snowball Mics for Effortless Collaboration on Zoom, empowering you to build even more cool things together!

TickTime Pomodoro Timer
Artificial Intelligence (AI) models, such as large language models (LLMs), are transforming how we interact with computers. During this weekend's hackathon, we want you to apply AI towards improving education to produce tools that support the quality, accessibility, and equitability of learning in today's classrooms. You can use AI to address any challenge teachers and students face, such as curriculum planning, question selection, teacher training, content generation, personalized feedback, automated grading and more.

For this challenge, we encourage you to draw on your own educational experiences and propose technical solutions to problems you've regularly encountered as students — after all, you are the best to know where our education system needs improvement. Design impactful and effective AI tools for education for a chance to win a TickTime Pomodoro Timer!

Sauce Labs Swag Bag
Sauce Labs empowers you to develop, test, and deliver top-tier web and mobile apps quickly and efficiently. Their unified platform makes automated testing and error monitoring easy to do, enabling you to save time building your hackathon project! Let Sauce Labs help resolve any issues with your code so you can get back to building an award winning hack.

Make sure your project is hackathon-tested by signing up for a Sauce Labs account and running at least one test on the platform. Include a screenshot of your test results in your project submission to get entered into the Sauce Labs raffle for a chance to win a backpack, beanie, and a bottle of Sauce Labs' famous hot sauce for you and each of your team members!