About the challenge

LifeHack 2025 is a hackathon organised by the Academic Liaison cell of NUS Computing Club. We aim to provide a platform for participants to apply their skills in coming up with creative solutions to improve interconnectivity within the community. In order to achieve this objective, the problem statements will challenge the participants’ ability to formulate and construct ideas that benefit the community.

 

Event Schedule

16 June 2025 (Mon) — Opening Day

17 June 2025 (Tue) — Hybrid Hack Day

18 June 2025 (Wed) — Submission & Judging

19 June 2025 (Thu) — Finale Day

Requirements

What to Submit

Participants should upload their solutions onto a public Github Repository.

Teams will submit their video through a form sent to the channel on the submission day. In submission form, teams have to specify:

  • A link to their Github Repo (if any)

  • Answers to the following:

    • What’s your project called? (if any)

    • What is your chosen problem statement?

    • How does your hack answer the problem statement?

    • How did you build your hack?

  • Upload any files of your solution that are not in GitHub

  • Include a README.md in repo detailing the usage of software program (if applicable)

  • Link to demo video (max 10 minutes)

Hackathon Sponsors

Prizes

$7,400 in prizes
1st Place
$3,000 in cash
1 winner

2nd Place
$2,000 in cash
1 winner

3rd Place
$1,000 in cash
1 winner

Finalist
$200 in cash
7 winners

Devpost Achievements

Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:

Judges

Francis Lee

Francis Lee
CTO Lalia Private Limited

Danny Suyanto

Danny Suyanto
Assoc Director, Software Engineering, Singtel

Teo Kim Peng

Teo Kim Peng
Deputy Director, Analysis Technologies, CSIT

Steven Halim
Associate Professor, Computer Science, NUS

Akshay Narayan
Senior Lecturer, Computer Science, NUS

Anand Ramchand
Associate Professor, Computer Science, NUS

Judging Criteria

  • Technical Implementation (for Submission)
    How effective is the technical approach and implementation of the product or solution
  • Relevance of ideas (for Submission)
    How well does the product/solution line up with the challenge
  • Innovation (for Submission)
    Uniqueness and creativeness of the product/solution (Demonstrates these qualities: inspiring, novel, persuasive, fresh, motivating, engaging, etc.)
  • Usability (for Submission)
    Usability of the solution. How user-friendly is the interface? How difficult was it to utilize the advertised features?
  • Viability (for Submission)
    Prospective social/commercial value that the solution possesses

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