Best hack that demonstrates machine learning principles and incorporates ML workshop content

Each member of the winning team will receive an Apple AirTag and a Tile tracker.

Best hack that demonstrates app development principles and incorporates App Dev workshop content

Each member of the winning team will receive a Portable Charger with Built-In Cables.

Best hack that demonstrates cybersecurity principles and incorporates cybersecurity workshop content

Each member of the winning team will receive a JBL Portable Bluetooth Speaker.

The Undergraduate Quantum Association partnered with Bitcamp presents the Quantum Track!
Quantum computers are a brand new domain of computing, touted to solve problems that “classical” computers struggle with, and complement classical algorithms in challenging subroutines such as training machine learning models. This year, we've got two distinct tracks, beginner and advanced, to introduce you to this brand-new paradigm of computing!

In the Advanced Quantum track, you'll be using the skills you learn in the advanced track workshops --namely, a more comprehensive introduction to quantum computing, and applying quantum computing to Neural Networks --to design a hybrid classical-quantum algorithm that uses quantum machine learning techniques in some way to solve a Grand Challenge.

The top two teams will receive a (in first and second place) Google Pixel Buds and a Mini Projector. In addition, the IDEA Factory would like to evaluate and fund the winning project of the advanced track to build a solution for the XPRIZE Competition, a $5 million competition from Google that goes towards practical quantum computing solutions (with the potential opportunity to build a startup or get IP/Patents from the project)!

The most creative, technical, and innovative use of circuitry, electronics, or microcontrollers in a hack.

Each member of the winning team will receive a Kootek Camping Hammock.

For the hacks that forge into the newest and coolest frontier and make us want to join the winners by the campfire!

First place - Vinyl Bluetooth Speaker

Second Place - Belt Bag

The Best Hack by a First Time Hacker that shows the most individual growth. Were you able to learn a new skill at Bitcamp and apply it to your project? At least half of the hackers in your team must be a first-time Bitcamp hacker to be eligible for this prize.

Each member of the winning team will receive an Owala Water Bottle

Best overall submitted UX/UI designs of hacks from the weekend. Factors considered will be innovation, aesthetics, service to the project/challenge, and the process.

Each member of the winning team will receive an UGEE M708 Graphics Drawing Tablet

The most creative, innovative, and well-developed hack that “shoots for the moon.”

First Place - Google Home

Second Place - Weighted Blanket

Most unique project! This prize will be awarded to two projects that best entertain our judges.

First place - Echo Dot

Second Place - Smore's Maker

Does your hack solve a social problem or help empower a marginalized community? Submit it here to win our Social Good prize!

First Place - $50 amazon gift card

Second Place - FM Global branded Yeti Mug

Created a hack that gamifies an everyday task? Submit it here;

Each member of the winning team will receive a Gaming Keyboard

Hackers vote on which project(s) they liked the best!

First Place - Kodak Camera

Second Place - Waffle Maker

Does your hack strive to help the environment or solve an issue related to sustainability? Submit it here to win Best Sustainability Hack!

Members of the winning team will each receive Solar-Powered Battery Bank.

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.

Wanna be a part of this growing community? Let’s get you started!
https://book.starknet.io/
https://book.dojoengine.org/
https://www.gizatech.xyz/

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. Your team can snag a FREE microcontroller by signing up for Kintone and visiting the MLH table, and 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!

Wacom Tablets

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!

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!

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!

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.

In the wake of the Francis Scott Key Bridge disaster, we invite you to harness the power of AI and ML to aid in the recovery and rebuilding process. Your innovative solutions can make a significant difference in the ongoing efforts to restore this vital Baltimore landmark. Explore many of the resources available to help you build, compute, and implement your solution within the Microsoft Education Hub at Microsoft Education Hub.

Join us in this pivotal challenge and stand a chance to win a Microsoft Surface Tablet among other prizes, all while building a solution that could make a meaningful impact on the Francis Scott Key Bridge recovery. Rebuild, innovate, and support the community together with Cloudforce.

Prizes:
1st place: Microsoft Surface Go 3 Tablet
2nd place: Microsoft bag filled with Cloudforce swag
3rd place: Microsoft bag

Prize: KODAK Step Instant Photo Printer 2x3” Sticky-Back Photos With Bluetooth/NFC

Digital forensics topics include but are not limited to: Data carving\reconstruction\recovery tools, finding specific objects (other than faces) in a large collection of digital images, steganography detection or exploitation, registry or memory artifact analysis, encryption detection, or anything else that could aid investigators who are looking at computers recovered from crime scenes.

Prize: $100 Amazon Gift Card and CT swag package, including a Yeti Tumbler and Nike hat

Related to housing/climate change, use of APIs to get, present, and analyze the data.

Prize:
1st place: $125 Amazon Gift Card per person; and lunch in Fannie Mae offices with a technology leader and tour of office
2nd place: $75 Amazon Gift Card per person, and lunch and tour as above

Create an AI centric solution that provides an efficient way to parse, display, and extract values from a corpus of text.

Option #1 Any dataset (No bonus):
- Use your own dataset and creative idea to use ML processing to extract data and provide insights. Provide details on dataset, approach, accuracy.

Option #2. Higher challenge (50% extra bonus):
- Implement an intelligent parser (ML model?) to automate parsing and extracting of contract award attributes from Defense Contact Notices.
- Capture relevant information like Federal Agency, amount values, dates, company name(s), place, etc from the notices in a tabular format and use to convey some data insights.
- Data source: Daily digest of Defense Contacts accessible at https://www.defense.gov/News/Contracts/
- Additional bonus to include options to calculate and evaluate accuracy.

Prizes:
Special “Bitcamp 2024 challenge champion” winners’ plaque, Bloomberg Industry Engineering branded Executive Backpack from Samsonite valued at $125, Sony Bluetooth Headsets valued at $70, and consideration to specific open roles if candidate meets job requirements (for Sr’s). Refer https://www.bloombergindustry.com/careers/

We are looking for the best financial hack and we have a tool that can help you! The Nessie api: api.nessieisreal.com offers plenty of mock data to help you get started (this is optional to use in your project). This category is intentionally open-ended to let your creativity shine! If you have any questions, feel free to ask us at our table.

Prize: $300 Amazon Gift Card

Tools and technical requirements:
● Standard programming and web app hosting setup
● Python (3.10+) environment with access to pip installs
● RDBMS (Sqlite, Postgres, etc)
● Vector store (ChromaDB, Redis, etc)
● Git

Prize:
1st place: $100 Amazon Gift Vouchers, and summer internship position + option to interview for two full-time positions
2nd place: TBD
3rd place: TBD