Located in balmy Cleveland, Ohio, HackCWRU is the event to truly hack beyond the possible. With 36 hour access to both our hardware lab and our campus makerspace, think[box], there are no limits to what you can hack together.
Schedule:
Friday
- 6PM - Registration Opens
- 8PM - Opening Ceremony
- 10PM - Hacking Begins
- 11PM - Late-night Snack - Potbelly's Sandwiches
Saturday
- 8AM - Breakfast - Jack Frost Donuts
- 1PM - Lunch - Ohio City Burrito
- Afternoon Talks TBA
- 6PM - Dinner - Wings and Things
Sunday
- 1AM - Luna's Cookies
- 8AM - Breakfast - Panera's
- 10AM - Hacking Ends
- 11AM - Lunch - Jimmy John's
- 12PM - Expo & Judging
- 2PM - Closing Ceremony Bonanza
Eligibility
- Teams must be no greater than 4 members
- All minors must have a signed release form
- Hacks must be made by attendees at the hackathon only
Prizes
1st Place
4 Leap Motions
MLH Prize TBA
2nd Place
4x Raspberry Pi B+
1x Nerf SpiderBot
3rd Place
1x Nerf SpiderBot+ 4x Google Cardboard
Best Vintage Hack
Lego DeLorean
Best Mobile Hack
Google Nexus 7 Tablet
Rockwell Prize
iPad mini
Garverick Award
In honor of Professor Garverick, this prize is given to the most outstanding hardware hack; $500 Amazon Gift Card.
Mobile Defense: Best "Internet of Things"
Raspberry Pis
Best Digital Health Solution
Digital Health includes all or elements of mHealth (aka Mobile Health), Wireless Health, Health 2.0, eHealth, Health IT, Big Data, Health Data, Cloud Computing, e-Patients, Quantified Self and Self-tracking, Wearable Computing, Gamification, Telehealth & Telemedicine, Precision and Personalized Medicine, plus Connected Health.
(http://storyofdigitalhealth.com/definition/)
Triple Analytics will be sponsoring a $250 prize for the best digital health solution.
Devpost Achievements
Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:
How to enter
To submit you hack, we'll need:
- The name of your hack
- Images/Screenshots
- A description of what the hack does
- A list of your teammates
Judges
Adam Gleichsner
President, Hacker Society
Judging Criteria
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Design
Design is clean and intuitive, user experience is friendly and doesn't leave the user scarred for life -
Presentation
Explanation is clear and informative, hack is engaging, entertaining, and educational. -
Complexity
Hack makes use of advanced technologies to accomplish a complex tastl -
Disruption
Has potential for social, political, economic, or environmental of great proportions. -
Uniqueness
Product is original, not simply a knock off or fad of another existing hack
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