Calling All Hackers, Builders & Innovators,

The Center of Excellence in Wireless and Information Technology (CEWIT) team is proud to announce the eighth annual student hackathon on March 1-3, 2024 at the CEWIT building in the R&D Park at Stony Brook University!

In partnership with our friends at Major League Hacking, the theme for Hack@CEWIT 2024 is Unleash Innovation, Transform Tomorrow.

Join us on March 1-3, 2024, to improve your skills, learn new programs, and meet fellow hackers and industry mentors while competing for prizes!

Interested in hacking, partnering, or have questions for our team? Visit our website or contact us at [email protected]

See you at Hack@CEWIT!

Requirements

All hacks must be submitted by 8:00am EST on Sunday, March 3rd!

All team members, with their full name, must be registered on Devpost and be included in the "created by" section of the submission. This is to ensure proper credit is given.

We strongly encourage you to fill out the submission text sections as much as possible.

All projects must be new and not worked on previously or submitted to other hackathons.

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Prizes

$9,000 in prizes
Softheon- 1st Place: Best Integration of Customer Segmentation Utilizing AI
1 winner

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 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!

Softheon- 2nd Place: Best Integration of Customer Segmentation Utilizing AI
1 winner

Softheon- 3rd Place: Best Integration of Customer Segmentation Utilizing AI
1 winner

SRC: 2nd Place Machine Learning Dataset Management
1 winner

SRC: 1st Place Machine Learning Dataset Management
1 winner

Best in Show
1 winner

Best in Show
1 winner

Spark of Genius
1 winner

Most Innovative
1 winner

Best Visual Design
1 winner

Stand-Out Award
1 winner

Effective Effort
1 winner

Devpost Achievements

Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:

Judges

Richard Chan

Richard Chan
Associate Professor of the College of Business, Stony Brook University

Shawn Freed

Shawn Freed
AVP of Engineering, SRC, Inc

Nadya Kadayifci

Nadya Kadayifci
Software Engineer, Softheon

Dominique Lee

Dominique Lee
Research and Experience Design Consultant

Jonathan Lynch

Jonathan Lynch
Head of Technology - Platform, Softheon

Thilanka Munsasinghe

Thilanka Munsasinghe
Lecturer at Information Technology & Web Science (ITWS) ,Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Revant Nayar

Revant Nayar
Principal and Chief Technology Officer, FMI Technologies

Pawel Polak

Pawel Polak
Assistant Professor of the Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics; Affiliated Faculty of the Institute for Advanced Computational Science, Stony Brook University

Brad Schneider

Brad Schneider
Senior Software Engineer, SRC, Inc

Dr. Oshani Seneviratne

Dr. Oshani Seneviratne
Associate Director of the Tetherless World Constellation (TWC); Assistant Professor in Computer Science, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Raghav Tenkasi Shankar

Raghav Tenkasi Shankar
Senior Engineering Manager, Zebra Technologies

Miroslav Trajkovic

Miroslav Trajkovic
Fellow Technical Staff, Zebra Technologies

Xena Ugrinsky

Xena Ugrinsky
Senior Transformation Executive, Pilot Wave Holdings, LLC

Kyra Wills-Umdenstock

Kyra Wills-Umdenstock
Administrator and Industry Liaison for NYU Game Center, NYU Tisch School of the Arts

Judging Criteria

  • Criteria I: Innovation
    Innovation - The most innovative apps are new concepts that solve a problem in a unique way with new features.
  • Criteria II: User Interface / User Experience
    User Interface / User Experience - The best apps are intuitive, visually appealing, and designed for the intended user
  • Criteria III: Overall Quality
    Overall Quality - The best apps are aligned with system design and software engineering best practices and are well polished.
  • Criteria IV: Technical Complexity
    Technical Complexity - The best apps have a sophisticated design.
  • Criteria V: Quality of Pitch / Project Impact
    Quality of Pitch / Project Impact - The best apps have a clear business potential or broad impact (e.g., social, educational, etc.).

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