About the challenge
NextAI (from Bugfix & Chill) is a spring hackathaon designed for students. Participants are welcome to submit anything code related that they would like, from ML to Data Visualization to games.
JOINING THE DISCORD IS MANDATORY, WE WILL NOT JUDGE YOUR PROJECT UNLESS YOU JOIN IT: https://discord.gg/aMbgFm9gke
Requirements
What to Build
Anything!
- GitHub Repository:
- Share a link to your GitHub repository containing all the source code, documentation, and any other relevant materials. Ensure your code is well-documented to help judges understand your implementation.
- Include a README file with a clear description of your project, the problem it addresses, the solution, and the impact it aims to make. Provide setup and usage instructions.
- Project demo link, if applicable. Every project should submit a github link. Include specific instructions for how to use the project.
- Submission Video:
- You must include a video (up to 3 minutes) demonstrating your project. This video should walk through your project, highlighting its features, functionality, and user interface. Mention the technologies used and how it addresses the topic of social good.
- Upload the video to a platform like YouTube or Vimeo and provide the link in your submission.
Prizes
TBD
Devpost Achievements
Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:
Judges
Vidisha Vijay
Senior Data Scientist, CVS Health
Samhitha Rama Prasad
Software Engineer II at BlackRock
Prachit Kurani
Sr. Software Quality Manager at Dover fueling Solutions
Tejas Tumakuru Ashok
Data Scientist
Yichen Wang
Quantitative Associate with SMBC Group
Xueting Lin
Tech Product Manager @ Roche Diagnostics
Nilesh Jain
Engineering Lead at Oracle America
Priyanka Thakur
Assistance Vice President at Citi
NIkita Klimov
Sr. Software QA Engineer at ADP, Inc.
Yves Remmler
CEO Endeavor Elements, Inc.
Jiaxi Yang
Software Engineer, Meta
Vignesh Govindarajan Ravichandran
Assistant Vice President, Wellington Management LLP
Maulik Suchak
- Apple Inc., Software Engineer
Divya Varshney
Senior Software Engineer, Amazon
Sriram Rakshith Kolar
Senior Software Engineer / Inchworks Inc
Shrikant Nagori
Co-founder, Socratic Inc
Praveen Kumar Myakala
Senior Lead Software Engineer, JP Morgan Chase
Vybhavreddy Kammireddy
Senior Manager, Data Science, Socure Inc
Premsankar Alwarsamy
Engineering Manager/Docusign
Gogulakrishnan Thiyagarajan
Software Engineering Technical Leader at Cisco Systems Inc, Austin, texas
Kumar Krishnamurthy Koduvayur
Technology Explorer, Strategist and Innovator
Jahnavi Kachhia
Software Engineer at Meta
Yuhao Huang
Software Engineer @ Meta
Yanjia Guo
Co-founder & CGO @ Mathos AI
Tommy Tran
Software Engineer/ Ramp
Piyush Desai
Lead SAP , Data Analytics Accenture
Siri Varma
Tech Lead/Microsoft Security
Darshan Kapashi
Co-Founder, Software Engineer @ Socratic AI
Nikunj Agarwal
Senior Software Engineer at Amazon
Pavithra Aravindan
Senior UX Designer @ Amazon
Neha Narwal
Machine Learning Engineer, AWS AI
Jiani Wang
Software Engineer, Meta
Vishal Shah
Business Data Analyst at Virginia Department of Wildlife Resources
Ravi Kumar
Senior Technical Account Manager @ AWS
Kashyap Achar
Co-Founder, Bezel (YC W25)
Yaoting Jiang
Software Engineer at Autodesk
Abhishek Das
Lead Member of Technical Staff, Salesforce
Nusrat Shaheen
Oracle HCM Solution Architect @ Highstreet IT
Anish Bajaj
Software Engineer @ Google
Saurabh Yadav
Enterprise Support Lead - Amazon Web Services Inc., USA
Meghana Nagendra Babu
Senior Software Engineer at Apple Inc.
Syed Umer Hasan
Founding Engineer at SurveilX Intelligence Inc.
Mahaveer Siddagoni Bikshapathi
Embedded Firmware Developer at HP Inc
Prakhar Srivastava
Data & Applied Scientist at Zurich North America
Adel Basli
Data Science & AI team Leader at Label Insight
Chiranjeevi Bura
Vice President/Bank of America
Anil Kumar Jonnalagadda
Google
Manager
Manager
Judging Criteria
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Complexity
How advanced are the technologies and frameworks used in the project? Does the project utilize any cutting-edge technologies or methodologies? How well does the code adhere to best practices in software development? -
Design
How professional looking is it? Does the project include industry-grade UI and UX elements? Is it easy to navigate the project as someone who's never interacted with the project before? -
Impact
How impactful is this solution? Does it help improve the quality of life for a significant audience? A great project should start with a great impact. The bigger the impact, the more novel it is. -
Creativity
How unique/novel of an idea is this? Has this been done before, or is it a new idea? Does the project use creativity to brainstorm a new solution to a problem, or is it recreating something that's already been done?
Questions? Email the hackathon manager
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