Each member of the winning team will receive a Meta Quest 2 128GB VR Headset with Touch Controllers and MLH Winner Pins! Win 1st and get to experience total immersion with 3D positional audio, hand tracking, and easy-to-use controllers.

Each member of the 2nd place team will receive a pair of bluetooth Edifier R1280DBs Active Desktop Speakers and MLH Winner Pins. Enjoy high-quality, distortion-free sound that makes every listening experience more immersive and enjoyable.

Each member of the winning team will receive a 22-inch Ultra Thin Bezel LED Monitor and MLH Winner Pins. Elevate your workspace with exceptional clarity, colour accuracy, and cutting-edge visual technology.

Each member of the winning team will get an Executive Sized Rocketbook Smart Reusable Notebook!

Each member of the winning team will receive a free year long subscription to NordVPN, NordPass, and incogni plus a Free VR experience at Ctrl V in Guelph!

To qualify for this prize, your project must incorporate some form of AR/VR technology. Do your best to demonstrate its application in a creative and practical way.

Each member of the winning team will receive some Google Swag which includes a Google water bottle, drawstring bag, and notebook!

To qualify for this prize, your project must utilize Google technology. Do your best to show off what kind of Google tech you used!

Each member of the winning team will get an Echo Pop smart speaker with Alexa. "Alexa play We Are the Champions".

To qualify for this prize, your project must incorporate some form of AI technology. Do your best to demonstrate its application in a creative and practical way.

Hack from Home Kit
GoDaddy Registry is giving you everything you need to be the best hacker no matter where you are. Register your domain name with GoDaddy Registry for a chance to win a Hack from Home Kit! Each Kit contains wireless earbuds, blue light glasses, selfie ring light and a pouch for easy transport.

3D Printing Pen
TinyMCE is a rich-text editor that allows you to create formatted content within a hacker-friendly interface. Adding a Rich Text Editor component has never been easier! Alongside functionality like bold, italics, underlines, hyperlinks, or titles (to name a few), the editor also allows users to enable HTML tags, MarkDown or CSS. TinyMCE even gives you the ability to edit your text elements directly with no code, similar to the way you would edit a word document but with even more practical hackathon use cases.

TinyMCE also has dozens of plugins that allow developers to customize their user’s experience. From implementing accessibility checkers, autocorrect, and enhanced image editing to utilizing emoticons, adding responsive design with auto resize and even a ChatGPT AI Assistant. If your hackathon project accepts ANY type of text input, you can use TinyMCE to take it to the next level.

Signup for TinyMCE for a free trial and get started today, no credit card required! To qualify for the Best Use of TinyMCE prize category, be sure to render the editor with a Tiny Cloud account for a chance to win a 3D Printing Pen for you and each of your team members!

Fidelity Branded Wireless Charger
At Fidelity, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion are viewed as major keys to the success of their business, which is why they are challenging you to come up with innovative ways to create forward-thinking financial tech that promotes equality for all people! We want you to use your hacking skills to find and build solutions that put financial opportunities and resources within reach for all communities, creating accessible, sustainable, and/or inclusive solutions. The team with the best hack will win a Fidelity branded wireless charger for each team member!

Breadboard IoT Kit
Still not sure what backend to use in your hack? Kintone is a low-code web database that lets you set up your backend in minutes. It's beginner friendly, allowing you to customize your Kintone app using nothing but JavaScript and HTML. Your team can snag a FREE microcontroller by signing up for Kintone and visiting the MLH table, and if you use Kintone in your hackathon project, you'll have a chance to win a breadboard IoT kit to power up the hardware hacking for each member of your team!

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!