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!

Assorted Lego Sets

Databricks is an open analytics platform that helps you build, deploy, and maintain large scale data & AI solutions! Whether you’re working with large language models using Mosaic AI(https://docs.mosaicml.com/en/latest/), storing data with Databricks Data Lakes(https://www.databricks.com/discover/data-lakes), or deploying GenAI powered applications using MLflow(https://mlflow.org/), Databricks Open Source software has the tools you need to make your hackathon project state of the art.

Build an AI powered project utilizing Databricks Open Source projects like the ones mentioned, or Databricks friendly Open Source projects like LanceDB and Llama Index, for a chance to win some amazing prizes for you and your teammates!

Wacom Wireless Drawing Tablet & JBL Go3 Speaker

Adobe Express(https://hackp.ac/adobe-xp) is an AI-first, all-in-one content creation app that makes it fast, easy and fun to design and share videos, images, PDFs, flyers, TikToks, logos and more. Best of all, it’s free to get started.

Add-ons in Adobe Express(https://hackp.ac/adobe-xp-addons) are simply extensions and integrations that are built upon very powerful APIs. These APIs provide access to the user’s document, connections to third-party tools, and so much more. You can extend the functionality of Adobe Express using add-ons to unlock new capabilities and workflows. Check out these add-ons(https://hackp.ac/adobe-xp-inspo) to see what other cool ideas developers have implemented!

For this hackathon, we want you to build a creative add-on for Adobe Express. Users are looking for add-ons that involve assets like stickers or icons, work with presentations and data visualization, and work in roles like marketing and e-commerce. Build an Adobe Express add-on(https://hackp.ac/adobe-xp-tutorial) this weekend for a chance to win a Wacom Wireless Drawing Tablet and JBL Go3 Speaker for you and each member of your team!

*You can also submit to this prize category if you have a prototype idea for an add-on or have a partially completed add-on. As long as you’ve built with Adobe Express, we want to see your hack!

Wacom Tablets

PropelAuth(https://hackp.ac/propelauth) makes it easy for hackers to add authentication and user management to their projects. If you’re looking to save time and effort on building a signup and login feature for your hack, PropelAuth is a great option for you and your team. Customize your login’s User Interface, from the color scheme and logo, to the login options you present to your users! PropelAuth provides a ton of options for configuration. PropelAuth is also supported across more than a dozen popular frameworks and languages including React, Node.js, Python, Django, Go, Rust, and Flask among others. Get started today and integrate PropelAuth to your hackathon project for a chance to win some awesome prizes for you and your teammates!

Keychron K8 Wireless Mechanical Keyboards

HashiCorp Terraform is a source available infrastructure as code (IaC) tool that makes building, deploying, and managing your projects even easier! Whether you’re working in the cloud or using local resources, Terraform can make managing and configuring your application simple and organized. From deploying Machine Learning models to spinning up virtual containers for your web applications, Terraform supports a wide array of cloud providers and services, taking the guesswork out of your next hackathon project. Dive into the documentation(https://hackp.ac/terraform-docs) and discover all the ways Terraform can take the way you hack to the next level!

Terraform’s community edition(https://hackp.ac/hashicorp-signup) is free to use with no credit card required! Utilize Terraform in your hackathon project this weekend for a chance to win awesome Keychron K8 Wireless Mechanical Keyboards for your team.

Sauce Labs Swag Bag

Sauce Labs(https://hackp.ac/saucelabs-docs) empowers you to develop, test, and deliver top-tier web and mobile apps quickly and efficiently. Their unified platform makes automated testing and error monitoring easy to do, enabling you to save time building your hackathon project! Let Sauce Labs help resolve any issues with your code so you can get back to building an award winning hack. Make sure your project is hackathon-tested by signing up for a Sauce Labs account!

To spice things up even more, we're running the Sauce Labs Hot Sauce naming raffle and selecting up to 4 individual winners at this event. To qualify come up with a cool hot sauce name and submit it to the Sauce Labs raffle form(https://hackp.ac/saucelabs-rafflesubmission-form) for a chance to win some awesome swag including a backpack, beanie, and a bottle of Sauce Labs hot sauce!

Our hackers love to learn! From attending workshops about a range of topics to traveling to Technica with their classmates, Technica weekend provides a wealth of opportunities to learn. We want to see your hack focused on education! From financial literacy to learning new recipes, we'd love to see what you've created. Submit a project related to education, educating others, or improving education! Prize: Northface Backpack (per team member)

This prize is for the hack that incorporates the best UI/UX design. Factors considered will be innovation, aesthetics, service to the project/challenge, and the process. Prize: Wacom Small Graphics Drawing Tablet (per team member)

Submit any and all hacks related to sustainability, climate change, biodiversity, and more! We invite you to return to your roots and create the coolest hack related to sustainability! Prize: Soundcore P30i Earbuds (per team member)

Technica welcomes you to explore the wonder that awaits this weekend! Whether it's by gamifying an everyday task or embarking on a new adventure through a video game hack, we hope your imagination runs wild! Prize: Logitech G502 Gaming Mouse (per team member)

Technica embraces its mission to promote diversity and inclusion! We want to see your hacks that utilize technology to provide more inclusive, accessible, and empowering solutions. Prize: Crescent Sling Bag (per team member)

The Techni-fam loves being active and focusing on their personal growth, whether it means dedicating more time to self-care, attending gym classes, or spending time with friends! We'd like to see your best hack related to active wellness and health. Prize: Owala Water Bottle (per team member)

The Techni-fam loves innovation! Whether it's a disruptive tech solution, a creative app, or a groundbreaking product, we're looking for hacks that have the potential to revolutionize the startup world. Show us your entrepreneurial spirit and take your project to the next level. Prize: Echo Pop Smart Speaker (per team member)

Only submit your hack here if you are part of the official Research track, led by the UMD Iribe Initiative for Inclusion and Diversity in Computing! Research track participants are not eligible to submit their project to other prize categories.

Is this your first time attending a hackathon or creating a hack? We want to encourage all first-time hackers to submit their creations! This should be the first hackathon for at least one member of the team. Ideally, this must be the first hackathon for all or almost all team members. All team members should be at least 18 years old, and participants are expected to have limited to no prior coding knowledge. We're excited to hear about what you've learned and what you've come up with for your first hack! Prize: Mini Projector (per team member)

Is this your first time attending a hackathon or creating a hack? We want to encourage all first-time hackers to submit their creations! At least one member of the team has to be a first-time hacker. Team members submitting for this category must be in middle or high school. We're excited to hear about what you learned and what you came up with for your first hack! Prize: Boba Plush (per team member)

Prize: Portable Monitors (per team member)

Tech Coffee Chat with an ICF Technology Executive

Deliver a solution to identify and resolve issues of data contamination and memorization in publicly available datasets in the legal domain.

Dataset options with bonus points: 1. Simple challenge (25% extra bonus) - Using any of the dataset listed in Datasets for Machine Learning in Law (https://github.com/neelguha/legal-ml-datasets) to identify issues of data contamination and memorization within the published training set and test set. Provide an efficient and effective way to address the issues using data visualization and data storytelling to identify the problems. 2. Medium challenge (50% extra bonus) - Benchmark your results by training or leveraging a machine learning model and or an LLM with and without your solution.
3. Higher challenge (No bonus) - Develop an innovative legal AI solution. Use one of the following datasets found on the following GitHub repo (Datasets for Machine Learning in Law) and creative idea to use natural language understanding (NLU)Some examples could be:
Predictive Legal Analytics Tool – Analyze past cases and predict ligation results, estimate timelines, identify patterns and trends. Example dataset: Cambridge Law Corpus
Intelligent Legal Research System – Search, summarize, Q&A, generate text. Example dataset: CLERC: A Dataset for Legal Case Retrieval and Retrieval-Augmented Analysis Generation
AI Legal Document Drafter – Generate legal documents, explain complex terms, in simple language. Example datasets: Plain English Summarization of Contracts.
1st Place Prize: Special “Technica challenge champion” 1st place plaque
2nd Place Prize: Special “Technica challenge champion” 2nd place plaque
3rd Place Prize: Special “Technica challenge champion” 1st place plaque
Bloomberg Industry Group Engineering branded Executive Backpack from Samsonite valued at $125 each (x3 units), and Consideration to Software Engineering Associate open role if candidate meets job requirements.

Capital One’s track challenges hackers to develop the Best Financial Hack.
Participants will harness their creativity and technical skills to design and innovate tools that
will help with anything related to finance.
1st Place Prize: $300 Amazon Gift Card to each member of the team