$300 Amazon gift card for every team member (4 members per team max).

$200 Amazon gift card for every team member (4 members per team max).

$100 Amazon gift card for every team member (4 members per team max).

Hack for a better tomorrow by making the world a cleaner place! This hack will be the one that best promotes a sustainable environment.

$1000 cash for the winning team. Sponsored by the Koffman Southern Tier Incubator's Clean Energy Program.

It’s time to make the world a better place, hackers! The hack with the potential to make the biggest positive impact on your (or any) community will receive this prize.

$120 Amazon gift card for every team member (4 members per team max).

With many financial companies moving towards tech-focused structures, finance is one of the fastest-growing tech subfields. Show us your best financial-based hack!

$200 Amazon gift card for every team member (4 members per team max).

This prize is for the hack that most effectively identifies and solves a problem facing the world today.

$120 Amazon gift card for every team member (4 members per team max).

Show us your skills! This prize will go to the hack that impresses our judges the most with its scale, complexity, or sophistication.

$80 Amazon gift card for every team member (4 members per team max).

New to hackathons? This is a great place to start! Your team is eligible for this prize if every member has never been to a hackathon before.

$80 Amazon gift card for every team member (4 members per team max).

With more and more of the transportation industry becoming automated, new algorithms have to be developed. Solve any problem within the transportation field to win this prize!

$50 Amazon gift card for every team member (4 members per team max).

This one’s not too complicated, just make us laugh! The hack that best leaves us chuckling, giggling, or even in tears from laughter will take home this hilarious prize.

$50 Amazon gift card for every team member (4 members per team max).

If you’ve got an eye for making beautiful, creative user interfaces, we want to see them! This prize will go to the hack with the most visually and mechanically impressive UI.

$50 Amazon gift card for every team member (4 members per team max).

This prize is for the hackers who need their code to be as elegant as possible. The winning hack will incorporate the best use of design patterns and principles.

$50 Amazon gift card for every team member (4 members per team max).

With Valentine’s Day right around the corner, we want to see your best love-themed hacks! This prize will go to the hack that spreads the love better than any other.

$50 Amazon gift card for every team member (4 members per team max).

Whether it’s a game, a social media platform, a utility, or anything in between, this prize will go to the best mobile app developed for iOS or Android.

$50 Amazon gift card for every team member (4 members per team max).

This hack goes to the most cybersecurity-conscious hack -- whether you developed your program to be secure by design, or developed a security tool, this category is for you!

$50 Amazon gift card for every team member (4 members per team max).

Machine Learning is one of the fastest growing fields in tech, and we can’t wait to see how our hackers use it! Build and train your own ML model for any purpose and you could win this prize.

$50 Amazon gift card for every team member (4 members per team max).