Welcome to Rice University's 14th annual fall hackathon!
Join us to build and show off awesome projects, collaborate with other hackers, participate in technical workshops, and network with industry-leading companies!
Check out our website at hackrice.com. Note: you must apply through our website in order to participate.
Requirements
Devpost Submission
Whenever you are providing "Additional info" about your project, you will get to the "Sponsor / Special Prizes" section. Here, you MUST CHOOSE AT MOST 1 TRACK, yet you can choose MULTIPLE CHALLENGES.
Prior to the Devpost submission deadline (Sunday 9/24, 9:00 am), submit a 3-4 minute video to Devpost. We have included a recommended outline for your video submission.
30 seconds Intro
Project name, members, track/challenge, project purpose, technologies used
2 minutes Demo
Let’s see your project in action!
30 seconds Technical design and implementation
High-level overview of how you designed your code
30 seconds Impact
The real-world value of your project; how you’d improve it in the future
Prizes
Top Overall Project: First Place
Top Overall Project: Second Place
Top Overall Project: Third Place
Healthcare Track
Education Track
First Timer's Track
Most Creative Adobe Express Add-On
Wacom Wireless Drawing Tablet & JBL Go3 Speaker
Adobe Express is an AI-first, all-in-one content creation app that makes it fast, easy and fun to design and share videos, images, PDFs, flyers, TikToks, logos and more. Best of all, it’s free to get started.
Add-ons in Adobe Express are simply extensions and integrations that are built upon very powerful APIs. These APIs provide access to the user’s document, connections to third-party tools, and so much more. You can extend the functionality of Adobe Express using add-ons to unlock new capabilities and workflows. Check out these add-ons to see what other cool ideas developers have implemented!
For this hackathon, we want you to build a creative add-on for Adobe Express. Users are looking for add-ons that involve assets like stickers or icons, work with presentations and data visualization, and work in roles like marketing and e-commerce. Build an Adobe Express add-on this weekend for a chance to win a Wacom Wireless Drawing Tablet and JBL Go3 Speaker for you and each member of your team!
*You can also submit to this prize category if you have a prototype idea for an add-on or have a partially completed add-on. As long as you’ve built with Adobe Express, we want to see your hack!
Best Use of MongoDB Atlas
M5GO IoT Starter Kit
MongoDB Atlas takes the leading modern database and makes it accessible in the cloud! Get started with a $50 credit for students or sign up for the Atlas free forever tier (no credit card required). Along with a suite of services and functionalities, you'll have everything you need to manage all of your data, and you can get a headstart with free resources from MongoDB University! Build a hack using MongoDB Atlas for a chance to win a M5GO IoT Starter Kit for you and each member of your team.
Best Use of Auth0
Wireless Headphones & Battery Pack
Auth0 wants your applications to be secure! Why spend hours building features like social sign-in, Multi-Factor Authentication, and passwordless log-in when you can enable them through Auth0 straight out of the box? Auth0 is free to try, doesn’t require a credit card, and allows for up to 7,000 free active users and unlimited log-ins. Make your new account today and use any of the Auth0 APIs for a chance to win a pair of wireless headphones and a battery pack for you and each member of your team!
Best DEI Hack sponsored by Fidelity
Fidelity Branded Wireless Charger
At Fidelity, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion are viewed as major keys to the success of their business, which is why they are challenging you to come up with innovative ways to create forward-thinking financial tech that promotes equality for all people! We want you to use your hacking skills to find and build solutions that put financial opportunities and resources within reach for all communities, creating accessible, sustainable, and/or inclusive solutions. The team with the best hack will win a Fidelity branded wireless charger for each team member!
Sauce Labs Hot Sauce Raffle
Sauce Labs Swag Bag
Sauce Labs empowers you to develop, test, and deliver top-tier web and mobile apps quickly and efficiently. Their unified platform makes automated testing and error monitoring easy to do, enabling you to save time building your hackathon project! Let Sauce Labs help resolve any issues with your code so you can get back to building an award winning hack. Make sure your project is hackathon-tested by signing up for a Sauce Labs account!
To spice things up even more, we're running the Sauce Labs Hot Sauce naming raffle and selecting up to 4 individual winners at this event. To qualify come up with a cool hot sauce name and submit it to the Sauce Labs raffle form for a chance to win some awesome swag including a backpack, beanie, and a bottle of Sauce Labs hot sauce!
Best Use of Terraform
Hashicorp Swag Bag
HashiCorp Terraform is a source available infrastructure as code (IaC) tool that makes building, deploying, and managing your projects even easier! Whether you’re working in the cloud or using local resources, Terraform can make managing and configuring your application simple and organized. From deploying Machine Learning models to spinning up virtual containers for your web applications, Terraform supports a wide array of cloud providers and services, taking the guesswork out of your next hackathon project. Dive into the documentation and discover all the ways Terraform can take the way you hack to the next level!
Terraform’s community edition is free to use with no credit card required! Utilize Terraform in your hackathon project this weekend for a chance to win some awesome Hashicorp swag for you and each of your teammates!
Capital One: Best Financial Hack
Lilie Lab: AI Challenge
Devpost Achievements
Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:
Judges
Kaustubh Prabhakar
Sharmila Devi Chandariah
Senior Tech Lead, Fortune 100 Compoany
Nicoale Sapoval
Anurag Bihani
Data Scientist, SLB
Vinod Goje
Sarath Vakacharla
Manan Joshi
Bo Sun
Aaron Rodriguez
SWE, Ellis
Sankalp Kumar
Premkumar Reddy Jakkidi
Tirthak Patel
Abhay Paroha
Arpankumar Patel
Samant Kumar
Portfolio Manager
Dhanunjay Reddy Seelam
Software Engineer, Walmart Global Tech
AJ Soud
John Greiner
Ramnath Natarajan
Anupama Babu
Arlei Silva
Anant Kumar
Nixalkumar Patel
Heta Chauhan
Judging Criteria
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Relevance
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Originality/Creativity
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Practicality/Impact
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User experience/Design
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Technical Rigor
Questions? Email the hackathon manager
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