1st place prize. Each teammate gets one.

2nd place prize. Each teammate gets one.

3rd place prize. Each teammate gets one.

Prize: A Mini Projector (1 per person)

Description: Bloomberg is a technology company that is uniquely situated at the intersection of finance and technology. For this award, we challenge students to create a hack that is related to the finance industry. This can be personal finance or related to the larger markets. We will be rating projects based off of their originality, potential for impact, and technical difficulty.

Example: An example (which we saw a team make at Boilermake last year!) is a mobile app that allows end users to store all of their different credit cards and automatically pay by selecting the credit cards which will accumulate the most benefits for the user. This idea is similar to the existing credit card wallets already on your phones, but enhances the user experience by selecting which credit card to use to save the most money.

A Hack that improves the world in one of these areas: water, food, health or climate.
• Water: Taking a circular approach to the world’s most precious resource, helping customers manage water through conservation, recycling and reuse.
• Food: Helping keep food safe all along the supply chain, preventing foodborne illnesses and ensuring safe, high-quality food for people around the world.
• Health: Protecting people and businesses from the risk of exposure to germs, keeping people
healthy everywhere they eat, stay, play, shop and heal.
• Climate: Tackling climate change by increasing energy efficiency and reducing greenhouse gas
emissions – for customers and in business operations.

Judging Criteria
• How does it apply to sustainability?
• What is the return on investment?
•Ingenuity and originality of the solution

Prize
• $100 gift card
• 2025 internship interview OR career conversation with Ecolab, depending on internship eligibility

2025 Internship requirements
• Expected graduation date of December 2025 or May 2026
• Must be authorized to work in the US without any sponsorship, now and anytime in the future

Today’s farmers have access to unprecedented amounts of data, enabling smarter decision-making in the field. Hundreds of data points collected every second over each operation can be analyzed to optimize yield, precisely apply nutrients, and save time and resources each season. Our challenge is to build an agricultural simulation game.

Hacks could include the four basic agricultural operations (tillage, seeding, application, and harvest) and may take things like weather, soil, or other factors that could impact a farmer’s yield into account. Lemonade Stand is an example of a classic game that captures the spirit of this challenge.

Prize is a custom John Deere Lego Set.

A cloud-based eCommerce site that hosts a front-end user shopping UI, and a back-end database to track items in cart, allow for search queries, and track orders.

Winners get CAT swag and Epic Gamer Gear.

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.

Wireless Headphones & Battery Pack
Auth0 wants your applications to be secure! Why spend hours building features like social sign-in, Multi-Factor Authentication, and passwordless log-in when you can enable them through Auth0 straight out of the box? Auth0 is free to try, doesn’t require a credit card, and allows for up to 7,000 free active users and unlimited log-ins. Make your new account today and use any of the Auth0 APIs for a chance to win a pair of wireless headphones and a battery pack for you and each member of your team!

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!

Libre Mini Computer with Redis Stack Server Pre-Installed
Redis Cloud is the easiest way to build and scale real-time applications - Period! It includes Redis Stack, adding indexing, querying, full-text search, JSON, time-series, and probabilistic data structures to the already-rich set of features of Redis.

Redis Stack works with all of your favorite programming languages and can be added to any existing application. It’s the easiest way to build real-time applications that scale and perform.

Show us how you’ve used Redis Cloud in a way that showcases your unique and specific data structure needs and each member of your team could win a personal, portable Redis Stack server IOT hardware unit to keep developing on the go. Find out why Stack Overflow Developers have voted Redis their “most loved and admired” noSQL database for years-running by rolling Redis into your MLH Hackathon project.

Sign up for your free Redis Cloud account, and head over to the MLH jump off page on Redis University for more info and docs links. Enter coupon code MLHFall2023 to claim your Redis Cloud credits and get started for free!

Arduino Kit
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 instance deployment to object storage. You can even run machine learning models 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 Student Kits for you and your team!

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!

Klaviyo is a unified customer platform that gives online brands direct ownership of their consumer data and interactions, empowering them to turn transactions with customers into long-term relationships—at scale. With Klaviyo, brands can combine unlimited customer data with more than 250 native integrations to automate personalized email and SMS communications that make customers feel seen. Klaviyo makes it easy—no need to start from scratch, piece together multiple platforms, or rely on third-party marketplaces and ad networks. From mom-and-pop shops to established companies, innovative brands like Unilever, Living Proof, Solo Stove, Citizen Watches, and more than 90K other paying users leverage Klaviyo to acquire, engage, and retain customers—and grow on their own terms. At Klaviyo we are always putting our customers first. It is one of our guiding principles. As Klaviyos we start with the customer and work backwards. We create products that solve legitimate customer problems, always doing what’s best for our customers and their customers. We work hard to earn and keep each customer’s trust through products and experiences that improve their lives and speed up their paths to success. Build a hack that puts the customer at the forefront of your solution. We’re looking for a hack that improves the lives of the customer and empowers them to own their destiny (Klaviyo’s mission). Meet this challenge and win some Klaviyo swag!

Technology Offered
Access to Wolfram|One for all your participants for thirty days. Wolfram|One includes both Desktop and Cloud access, full access to the Wolfram Language and Knowledgebase, FreeCDF Deployment, 5000 Wolfram|Alpha API calls, 5000 Cloud Credits, 2 installations per user and 2 GB of Cloud Storage. The value of this access is $25.00 per user.
Description
The Wolfram Award for everyone on your top seven teams via award letter with a maximum of five individuals per team, or up to 35 individual participants. We would like for your organizing team to choose the winning students. Wolfram tech is not required to be used in projects for our award eligibility. I would send you the award letter as a .pdf attachment and you would need to email it to the winners.
Example
Prize
This award is for a year of Wolfram|One Personal Edition plus a one-year subscription to Wolfram|Alpha Pro. The value of each individual award is $375.00.

Our award will recognize the best project to specifically help college students in any way. To qualify, hackers must develop something that would be helpful to them or one of their peers.

An example project idea would literally be boilerbookings.com.