YHack is Yale's premier hackathon. This year marks our 11th annual Yale Hackathon! Taking place between October 5-6, 2024, we invite all students passionate about innovation, learning, and social impact to code, create, and collaborate on Yale’s campus. Expect a myriad of spectacular rewards, educational workshops, renowned guest speakers, and engaging activities throughout the event. Learn more at https://www.yhack.org/
Requirements
Hackers must select one of the four tracks—Sustainability, Education, Entertainment & Media, Healthcare—and build a functional application that meets the requirements of their track. All groups will prepare a short presentation of their project for the judges and submit their code to Devpost before 11:00 AM EST on Sunday, October 6th, 2024.
Prizes
1st Place
2nd Place
3rd Place
Health Track
Education Track
Media/entertainment Track
Sustainability Track
FetchAI
Use FetchAI's AI tools to enhance your projects to be eligible!
LightBox
Employ LightBox's industry-used APIs in your project to address the challenges of tomorrow.
ActualFood Award
Related to the core values of ActualFood, address sustainability challenges in our society.
Wolfram Award
Best DEI Hack sponsored by Fidelity
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!
Best Domain Name from GoDaddy Registry
GoDaddy Registry is giving you everything you need to be the best hacker no matter where you are. Register your domain name with GoDaddy Registry for a chance to win a Hack from Home Kit! Each Kit contains wireless earbuds, blue light glasses, selfie ring light and a pouch for easy transport.
Most Creative Adobe Express Add-On
Wacom Wireless Drawing Tablet & JBL Go3 Speaker
Adobe Express 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 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 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 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!
Best Use of Terraform
Hashicorp Swag Bag
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 and discover all the ways Terraform can take the way you hack to the next level!
Best AI Application Built with Cloudflare
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 (create Cloudflare command line) instance deployment to object storage. You can even run GenAI (LLMs, text to image, Voice to text etc..) 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 Kits for you and your team!
Sauce Labs Hot Sauce Raffle
Sauce Labs 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 for a chance to win some awesome swag including a backpack, beanie, and a bottle of Sauce Labs hot sauce!
Best AI Project with Databricks Open Source
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, storing data with Databricks Data Lakes, or deploying GenAI powered applications using MLflow, 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! Check out the following link to see all qualifying Databricks' Open Source technologies.
Devpost Achievements
Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:
Judges
Aatif Belal
Manager - Applied AI at Deloitte
Deepakraj Dharmapuri Selvakumar
Senior Software Engineer at Audible Amazon
Vinod Goje
Speaker at LeadDev, Editor at InfoQ
Neha Surendranath
Senior Technical Program Manager at LinkedIn
Ishaan Agarwal
Product Manager at Square
Raakesh Premkumar
Lead Machine Learning Engineer at Home Depot
Anna Yoshitsugu
Startup Advisor, previously at Uber and Coca-Cola
Judging Criteria
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Innovation
Originality and creativity of the idea — 25% -
Technical Difficulty
Complexity and technical challenges overcome — 20% -
Design
User experience and interface design — 20% -
Impact
Potential for real-world application and benefit — 25% -
Presentation
Clarity and effectiveness of the project pitch — 10%
Questions? Email the hackathon manager
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