TCNJ's 24-hour hackathon

February 17th, 12PM to February 18th, 3PM

The College of New Jersey's annual 24-hour hackathon. All are welcome, especially if it is your first hackathon! Come join us for a fun weekend filled with programming, free food, free swag, and games! Afterwards, walk away with new experiences and friendships :)

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Prizes

$830 in prizes
Best Overall Hack: Acer Gaming Monitor
1 winner

Best Highshool/Freshman Hack
1 winner

Everyone in the team must be either a highschooler or freshman in college.

Best Frontend Design: Beats Headphones
1 winner

Best looking project GUI/Frontend.

Best Creative Hack: $50 Amazon Gift Card
1 winner

Best Social Impact: JBL Portable Speaker
1 winner

Best Use of Google Cloud: Google Cloud Bookbag
1 winner

Best Use of MongoDB Atlas: M5GO IoT Starter Kit
1 winner

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.

Best Use of Auth0: Wireless Headphones & Battery Pack
1 winner

Auth0 wants your applications to be secure! Why spend hours building features like social sign-in, Multi-Factor Authentication, and passwordless log-in when you can enable them through Auth0 straight out of the box? Auth0 is free to try, doesn’t require a credit card, and allows for up to 7,000 free active users and unlimited log-ins. Make your new account today and use any of the Auth0 APIs for a chance to win a pair of wireless headphones and a battery pack for you and each member of your team!

Best Use of TinyMCE: 3D Printing Pen
1 winner

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!

Best .Tech Domain Name: Blue Snowball Microphone & a Free .Tech Domain Name for Life!
1 winner

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!

Best AI Application Built with Cloudflare: Arduino Kit
1 winner

Cloudflare is one of the world’s largest networks enabling hackers like you to build, deploy, and deliver trusted applications, no matter where you are! With Cloudflare, you’ll have all the building blocks to create a full-stack application; from C3 instance deployment to object storage. You can even run machine learning models in the cloud and leverage your AI functionality via API requests using Cloudlfare’s Workers AI! Enjoy Cloudflare’’s generous free tier to get started at no cost! This weekend, we want you to build an AI Application utilizing Cloudflare’s numerous services for a chance to win Arduino Student Kits for you and your team!

Devpost Achievements

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Judges

TCNJ Profs and Alumni

TCNJ Profs and Alumni

Judging Criteria

  • 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? For a website, this might be about how beautiful the CSS or graphics are. For a hardware project, it might be more about how good the human-computer interaction is.
  • Completion
    Does the hack work? Did the team achieve everything they wanted?
  • Learning
    Did the team stretch themselves/try to learn something new? What kind of projects have they worked on before? If a team which always does VR projects decides to switch up and try doing a mobile app instead, that exploration should be rewarded.
  • Accessibility
    Did the team take into account accessibility? Is there contrast with colors used, is the text legible? If the team wasn’t able to implement any accessible features, did they address any future implementations in their presentation?

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