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Bison Bytes - Participant Schedule 

Day 1 - Saturday, March 30th

Time

Activity

8 am 

Check-in

10 am

Opening Ceremony

11 am

Hacking starts

11 am

Company and Hacker meet and greet

12 am

Lunch

1 pm

Workshop: Cloudforce/Microsoft

Azure.Admissions.AI 

2:30 pm

Workshop: Palantir

Think Like a Palantir Engineer: Problem Solving Workshop

4 pm

Workshop: Dow Inc.

Dow Sustainablity Tracker

6:30 pm

Workshop: Fannie Mae

Intro to API's

7 pm 

Dinner

9 pm

Late Night Games/ Scavenger Hunt

12 am

Midnight Snack/Midnight Games

 

Day 2 - Sunday, March 31st

 

1 am

Midnight Gaming tournament

9 am

Breakfast

11 am

Hacking ends

12 pm

Lunch

2 pm

Expo

5 pm

Closing Ceremony

7 pm

Event ends 

 

 

 

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Prizes

$30,950 in prizes
Winning Team
1 winner

The overall winning team wins a grand prize of $4,000

Second Place
1 winner

The second place team wins $2,000

Third Place
1 winner

The third place team wins $1,000

AI/ML Track
1 winner

⭐️ML/AI track
1st Place Team - Microsoft Surface Laptop
2nd Place Team -Microsoft Surface Tablet
3rd Place Team - Microsoft Xbox Series S

1 per student on teams of 2-4 students

Health Track
1 winner

Health track
1st Place Team - $2,200 cash prize (per winning team member) + Palantir Swag Bag + DC Office visit
2nd Place Team - Palantir Swag Bag + DC Office visit
3rd Place Team - DC Office visit

1 per student on teams of 2-4 students

Gaming Track
1 winner

1st Place Team - PlayStation 5

1 per student on teams of 2-4 students

FinTech track
1 winner

Fintech fannie mae challenge

Best Domain Name from GoDaddy Registry
1 winner

Hack from Home Kit
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.

Best Use of TinyMCE
1 winner

3D Printing Pen
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 Use of Starknet
1 winner

Starknet Care Package for Coders
Starknet is redefining the very notion of Web3 by tackling one of the most intimidating technical challenges in the industry - scaling a blockchain while maintaining its security and decentralization.

Starknet was the first general purpose ZK-Rollup service on Ethereum in Feb. 2022, and has proved its potential to be a market leader. Essentially, it increases the processing speed, while reducing the cost of operating on the Ethereum blockchain.

As a result, we are seeing a variety of “traditional” tech businesses - payments / social media / AI / online gaming - now being integrated with blockchains using our technology.

Moreover, the Starknet community is a growing pool of global talent - from feisty college students to some of the most illustrious PhDs in the world.

Best Use of Taipy
1 winner

Wireless Headphones
Taipy is a powerful yet easy to use open-source Python library for creating full stack web applications! If you’re a Python developer, this library enables you to build interactive and dynamic graphical user interfaces and support them with data-driven backends. All of these functionalities are just a pip install taipy away and can cut your development time in half! Use Taipy in your hackathon project for a chance to win a set of Wireless Headphones for you and each of your team members, as well as a chance to have your project featured on the Taipy website!

Best Use of Kintone
1 winner

Breadboard IoT Kit
Still not sure what backend to use in your hack? Kintone is a low-code web database that lets you set up your backend in minutes. It's beginner friendly, allowing you to customize your Kintone app using nothing but JavaScript and HTML. If you're interested in IoT, your team can snag a FREE microcontroller by signing up for Kintone and visiting the MLH table. If you use Kintone in your hackathon project, you'll have a chance to win a breadboard IoT kit to power up the hardware hacking for each member of your team!

Best Use of AI in Education
1 winner

TickTime Pomodoro Timer
Artificial Intelligence (AI) models, such as large language models (LLMs), are transforming how we interact with computers. During this weekend's hackathon, we want you to apply AI towards improving education to produce tools that support the quality, accessibility, and equitability of learning in today's classrooms. You can use AI to address any challenge teachers and students face, such as curriculum planning, question selection, teacher training, content generation, personalized feedback, automated grading and more.

For this challenge, we encourage you to draw on your own educational experiences and propose technical solutions to problems you've regularly encountered as students — after all, you are the best to know where our education system needs improvement. Design impactful and effective AI tools for education for a chance to win a TickTime Pomodoro Timer!

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