About the challenge

Experience CxC - Powered by Federato, Canada's largest student run data hackathon. We are a beginner-friendly datathon that bring together students and companies to build projects that solve real-world problems.

Requirements

What to Submit

Make sure all Team Members have created DevPost profiles and have been listed as part of the submission.

Your goal is to train and fit models that best predict the required labels. For your submissions to be considered, please upload your final project to the CxC DevPost, with

  1. Project Files
    1. Please refer to this Example GitHub Repository for Project Files Submission Details. You should be submitting all Project Files in a repository (one per team) with the same structure as the Example Repository, with each challenge having their own Challenge Submission Folder in the repository. Each Challenge Submission Folder should have their own code files as well as a .zip file containing the required submission requirements.
    2. Each challenge has a different requirement for submission, but generally could include a well-documented notebook, a submission.csv file or a report.
  2. Outline of your project, including technologies used, challenges faced, and of course the overall outcomes. This should be submitted as part of your DevPost submission in the description of your project
  3. Judging Submission Form. This is quick form to indicate which challenges are submitting for, and whether you would like to pitch in-person or virtually. This will be sent out before projects are due

Each dataset has a different metric that we will be evaluating on, more details will be shared once the datasets are released. You may pick more than one dataset/challenge to work on.

Only one submission per team per challenge is required (your team can submit to multiple challenges and be eligible for multiple prizes however).

All submissions are due on Monday, February 24th @ 11:00AM. You may continue to work on your pitch after that. However, any modifications made to any code or files in your team's Submission Repository AFTER the deadline will disqualify and void your team from the competition.

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Prizes

$CAD 132,900+ in prizes
+ other prizes
Finalist
$CAD 17,500 in cash
6 winners

1st Place Winners: $10000
2nd Place Winners: $5000
3rd Place Winners: $2500

Federato Challenge
$CAD 1,700 in cash
6 winners

1st Place: $1000 Cash Prize Total
2nd Place: $500 Cash Prize Total
3rd Place: $200 Cash Prize Total
4th-6th Place: $25 per team member

Touch Bistro Challenge
$CAD 1,400 in cash
6 winners

1st Place Winners: $200/Person in Gift Card Value
2nd Place Winners: $100/Person in Gift Card Value
3rd Place Winners: $50/Person in Gift Card Value
4th-6th Place: $25 per team member

runQL Challenge
$CAD 700 in cash
6 winners

1st Place Winners: $400
2nd Place Winners: $200
3rd Place Winners: $100
4th-6th Place: $25 per team member

SAP Challenge
$CAD 700 in cash
6 winners

1st Place Winners: $400
2nd Place Winners: $200
3rd Place Winners: $100
4th-6th Place: $25 per team member

SAP winners will also get a tour of the office and lunch with hiring managers!

MEF Prizes - for Faculty of Math students only
$CAD 400 in cash
1 winner

Hack the 6ix - Most Innovative Hack
1 winner

1 IKEA Skogsduva White Wolf Plush per team member

GeeseHacks - Best Use of Scikit-Learn
$CAD 100 in cash
1 winner

$100 Amazon Gift Card, split among team mebers

Best Data Visualization
$CAD 200 in cash
1 winner

Most Insightful Storytelling Pitch
$CAD 200 in cash
1 winner

Devpost Achievements

Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:

Judges

Richard Fan

Richard Fan

Simone Coutinho

Simone Coutinho

Navya

Navya

Victoria Da Rosa

Victoria Da Rosa

Jerry Zhu

Jerry Zhu

Samhitha Poreddy

Samhitha Poreddy

Gunes Aluc

Gunes Aluc
SAP

Vaibhav Nalawade

Vaibhav Nalawade
SAP

Rob Darling

Rob Darling
RunQL

JJ

JJ
Federato

Katie Li

Katie Li
Federato

Sathira

Sathira
Federato

Fuad Ali

Fuad Ali
Federato

Patrick Li

Patrick Li
Federato

Vanessa

Vanessa
Touchbistro

Bahare

Bahare
Touchbistro

Kaushik Chatterjee

Kaushik Chatterjee

Daniel Hu

Daniel Hu

Simha Kalimipalli

Simha Kalimipalli

Dishita Chawla

Dishita Chawla

Jeffrey Kasa

Jeffrey Kasa

Nahal Habibizadeh

Nahal Habibizadeh

Eric Huang

Eric Huang

Siri Varma Vegiraju

Siri Varma Vegiraju
Virtual

Karan Alang

Karan Alang
Virtual

Amit Dhiman

Amit Dhiman
Virtual

Abhishek Aryaman

Abhishek Aryaman
Virtual

Judging Criteria

  • Overall
    Each dataset has a different metric that we will be evaluating on, more details will be shared once the datasets are released. You may pick more than one dataset/challenge to work on.

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