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Requirements
What to Build
Create a project for social good! Make sure to read the judging criteria and prize guides.
What to Submit
Submission Requirements:
- A link to your git repository
- Everyone on your team added to your Devpost project
- An opt-in to the side prizes you plan to compete in, if any
- A comment mentioning which side prizes you plan to compete in, if any
Extra Submission Components Recommended to Include:
- A short video demo of your project
- Your demo presentation slides
- Screenshots/photos of your project
- A project logo as the thumbnail
Prizes
1st Place
2nd Place
3rd Place
Best Graduate Hack
This award will be earned by the team consisting of at least one graduate member with the most innovative, functional and well-designed hack. Competing for this prize excludes your team from winning other undergraduate prizes. Include majors and graduation years with your name in Devpost.
Most Likely to Become a Startup
ACM and ACM-W are proud to announce a sponsored prize by the Ciocca Center for the “Most Likely to Become a Startup” award at Hack For Humanity. Showcase your presentation and technical skills by envisioning your full product and you could walk away with $500.
Sustainable Entrepreneurs Award
Sponsored by the Leavey Sustainable Business Institute, we present an award for Sustainable Entrepreneurs at Hack For Humanity. This award is given to the team with the best implementation of an idea focusing on sustainability and environmental awareness.
Best Hack by Women In Tech Award
This award will be earned by the team consisting of majority women members with the most innovative, functional and well-designed hack. The team should consist of a majority of
female members. Include majors and disciplines with
your name in Devpost.
Best Freshmen Hack
This award will be earned by the team consisting of ALL first-year members with the most innovative, functional and well-designed hack. Include majors and graduation years with your name in Devpost.
Devpost Achievements
Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:
Judges
Sharon Hsiao
SCU Faculty - COEN
Navid Shaghaghi
SCU Faculty - Math & CS
Sean Shao
Nvidia, Software Engineer / SCU Alumni
Muge Guher
Synopsys - Sponsor
Alex Stanfill (she/her)
Bay Area Environmental Research Institute, Senior Systems Engineer
Vandana Jha
NASA Ames Research Center
Leo Wei
CSEN PhD Student
Sara Krehbiel
SCU Faculty - COEN
Rachel McGuigan
Asana
Thomas Voet
Deloitte
Will Cockrum
SCU ACM Alumni
Jodi Chui
SCU ACM Alumni
Judging Criteria
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Technology
How technically impressive was the hack? Was the technical problem the team tackled difficult? Did it use a particularly clever technique or did it use many different components? Is it a scalable design/solution? -
Polish
Did the team put thought into the user experience? For a website, this might be about how beautiful the CSS or graphics are. For a hardware project, it might be about how good the human-computer interaction is. -
Innovation
Does the hack show the team thought “outside of the box”? Does it have a certain “wow factor” to it? Is it different compared to previous solutions? -
Social Impact
How much good could this hack bring to others in the specific theme? -
Project Completeness
Is there a demo of the product’s functionality? Can major user action flows be completed without significant obstacles?
Questions? Email the hackathon manager
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