Themes (updated):
Healthcare
Build a hack to help tackle some of the issues within modern day healthcare.
Women in STEM
While the tech industry continues to grow women still only make up about 20% of it. Build a hack to help increase the number of women in STEM.
Education
Many individuals nowadays feel that they are being forced out of their industry due to automation. This creates a significant gap between these individuals and modern day society as it can be very difficult to adjust to a very technical world. Build a hack to help steadily immerse these individuals into the tech world.
Community
Build a hack to help better the NYC community.
The Tech Festival will be a time for students all across the United States to come together, meet and collaborate with other students and technologists, to solve problems using technology. The Festival will feature student technologists of all ages, showcasing their hacks or talking about their beloved project.
The HackAttack Hackathon in the Tech Festival is a time where people from different backgrounds come together and solve a problem with Technology.
For more information about Tech Festival and HackAttack, including the event schedule, visit: https://techfestival.nyc
Eligibility
Everyone is allowed to participate in the Hackathon. Please have a state ID with you on the day of the Event. If you are a shortlisted candidate for the scholarship, please carry your valid photo ID as well.
Prizes
Google Home Mini
JBL Headphones
Google Office Tour & Lunch & 1:1 Resume Consultation
Google Cloud Platform Challenge Category Prize:
Google Office Tour & Lunch, and
1:1 Resume Consultation with
Brendan Collins, Google University Recruiter
Devpost Achievements
Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:
Judges
Brian Dillmann
Machine Learning Engineer, ASAPP
Evgeniya Ezhova
Full Stack Web Development Fellow, Pursuit
Helen Altshuler
Engineering Leader, Google
Kathy Ziet
Former Project Manager in Canon
Navish Kumar
Subject Matter Expert, Microsoft
Raymond Blum
Engineering Leader, Google
Samuel Sanchez
Senior Developer, BNY Mellon
Stahlvanbrackle Lori
Instruction Technology Director, NYC DOE Manhattan Borough Office
Tara Brady
Code Club Instructor, Queens Library
Complete list is on its way!
Judging Criteria
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Creativity & innovation of the Idea
Creativity & innovation of the Idea: How creative and innovative the idea is. (Take competition into account.) -
Feasibility of the Idea
Feasibility of the Idea: Think of the scope of the project you are working on, and how scalable the idea is. What does scalable mean? How much can you expand the project? What are the growth areas. -
Technical Depth
Technical Depth: What technologies were used in making the project?
Questions? Email the hackathon manager
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