Themes

Please base your projects according to one or more of these themes

  1. Education Tech
  2. Social Impact
  3. Wellness Tech

About the challenge

Do you want to express your skills and creative arts? Are you passionate for programming or even designing? or Are you interested in solving real-world problems?

If you answered yes to any of these following questions, You will enjoy designing, brainstorming an idea and even programming at our very first student hosted hackathon "EduCathon" where we developers and entrepreneurs aim to solve problems in the real world while educating ourselves about the problems and solutions that can change the world.

https://educathon.vercel.app/

Our hackathon is in 2 categories 

No-Code (BrainStorm an Idea and Explain it in a video)

Program-It ( Develop an Application based on your idea and showcase it)

Get started

  1. Register for the hackathon on DevPost
  2. Brainstorm an idea (Or) develop an application
  3. Create a video explaining your idea, features and showcase your Application (Application Showcase is not required for the No-Code Category )
  4. That's it 

 

Requirements

What to Build

No-Code

  1. BrainStorm an idea
  2. Create designs to show how your idea can be implemented
  3. Create a 3-4 min video showcasing everything you did

Program-It

  1. Brainstorm an idea
  2. Create a Program/app/website 
  3. Upload to Github
  4. Create a readme explaining judges how to replicate the experience shown in your video (eg. database initialization,packages required to replicate .etc)
  5. Create a 3-5 min video showcasing the features in your program and demonstrate it

What to Submit

  1. A video based on the category chosen
  2. links to your idea/program source code 
  3. (not required for No-Code category) Create a readme explaining judges how to replicate the experience shown in your video 

Hackathon Sponsors

Prizes

$31,090 in prizes
1st Place
1 winner

Wolfram Presents: Wolfram|One Personal Edition and one-year subscription to Wolfram|Alpha Pro (1 per team member)

Gen.XYZ Presents: 1 free-for-year domain (2 per winning team)

AoPS Presents: 25$ coupon for AoPS Services (2 coupon per team)

Axure Presents: 1 year worth Axure Pro (1 per winning team)

2nd Place
1 winner

Wolfram Presents: Wolfram|One Personal Edition and one-year subscription to Wolfram|Alpha Pro (1 per team member)

Gen.XYZ Presents: 1 free-for-year domain (1 per winning team)
AoPS Presents: 25$ coupon for AoPS Services (1 coupon per team)

3rd Place
1 winner

Wolfram Presents: Wolfram|One Personal Edition and one-year subscription to Wolfram|Alpha Pro (1 per team member)

Gen.XYZ Presents: 1 free-for-year domain (1 per winning team)
AoPS Presents: 25$ coupon for AoPS Services (1 coupon per team)

Best No-Code Project
1 winner

Wolfram Presents: Wolfram|One Personal Edition and one-year subscription to Wolfram|Alpha Pro (1 per team member)
Gen.XYZ Presents: 1 free-for-year domain (2 per winning team)

AoPS Presents: 25$ coupon for AoPS Services (2 coupon per team)

Best Project Idea
1 winner

Gen.XYZ Presents: 1 free-for-year domain (1 per winning team)
Wolfram Presents: Wolfram|One Personal Edition and one-year subscription to Wolfram|Alpha Pro (1 per team)

Best Project Showcase
1 winner

Wolfram Presents: Wolfram|One Personal Edition and one-year subscription to Wolfram|Alpha Pro (1 per team member)

Gen.XYZ Presents: 1 free-for-year domain (1 per winning team)

Well Documented Project
1 winner

Gen.XYZ Presents: 1 free-for-year domain (1 per winning team)
Wolfram Presents: Wolfram|One Personal Edition and one-year subscription to Wolfram|Alpha Pro (1 per team)

Echo3D pro subscription
200 winners

Echo3D presents a one month pro subscription to Echo3D

Interview Cake 7 day access pass
50 winners

Interview Cake presents all participants with a 7 day access pass to their platform

Devpost Achievements

Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:

Judges

EduCathon Team

EduCathon Team
EduCathon

Supriti Vijay

Supriti Vijay

Aman Priyanshu

Aman Priyanshu

Dmitrii Slabko

Dmitrii Slabko
Lead Software Engineer at EPAM Systems

Sumeer Peta

Sumeer Peta

David Wolf

David Wolf
CTO and Backend-Engineer at Digi Ai

 Shreyans Kushwaha

Shreyans Kushwaha

Maulik Suchak

Abul Khair

Abul Khair

Jagbir Kaur

Jagbir Kaur

Himanshu Jain

Himanshu Jain

Judging Criteria

  • Viability of Idea
    Is the project useful for people in the modern day?
  • Design of the program/ design of idea
    How well is the project designed (is the project well designed for the modern age?)
  • Showcase of program/idea
    How well is the showcase video
  • functionality of program/(full points for no code))

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