The Official Hackathon of Queen's University
We’re bringing together students from all over Canada for a wild 36 hours - designing, developing, and demoing from our home base at Queen’s University. Whether you’re a first-timer or a seasoned veteran, QHacks has something to satisfy your interests! This weekend is about inclusiveness for all disciplines - students from any level of skill, from any field of study, are encouraged to bring their innovative ideas for a weekend of problem-solving! The only prerequisites for this weekend are a love for tech and drive to learn! We can't wait to see you there!
Requirements
QHacks provides hackers with the creative freedom to explore whichever area of tech they want! Whether that be Fintech or Website Design - it's up to the hackers to create their dream project and turn it into a reality!
Prizes
Best Use of Theme
All-new Echo Show 5
1st Place
Acer Nitro 27" FHD 180Hz 1ms GTG LED Curved FreeSync Gaming Monitor
Winners will also be given Tickets to Pinnacle 2024, learn more at https://pinnacle.us.org
2nd Place
Soundcore Anker Motion Boom Plus
3rd Prize
Eokeiy Native 1080P Bluetooth Projector with WiFi
Mayor's Innovation Challenge (City of Kingston)
Direct entry into the Mayor's Innovation Challenge Pitch Competition happening on March 8th, 2024.
At the pitch competition, you'll have an opportunity to win paid internships with the City of Kingston OR your team could unlock $5,000 in seed funding to further your project, unlocked in phases as you make progress on the venture.
Bayun Systems Challenge
CA$500 Cash prize
OTPP: Best Beginner Innovative Hack
Intended for first time hackers that pushed their boundaries to learn new cutting edge technologies, innovated a new idea or created solution leveraging OpenAI, Machine Learning models etc.. to solve a complex business problem.
The winner will get a coffee chat with a leader from the Product Engineering team
CSE Threat Detection Challenge
$50 Amazon Gift Card
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!
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 Use of Kintone
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 .Tech Domain Name
Blue Snowball Microphone & a Free .Tech Domain Name for Life!
Make your Team's Achievements timeless: Win a .Tech Domain Name for Life to Showcase and Expand Your Project, Plus 4 Blue Snowball Mics for Effortless Collaboration on Zoom, empowering you to build even more cool things together!
Best Use of AI in Education
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!
Devpost Achievements
Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:
Judges
Juergen Dingel
David Tausky
Ting Hu
Erin Peterson
Fernando Hernandez
Wendy Powley
Paul Yeung
Bella Zhong
Christian Muise
Maria Kantardijan
Faranak Sharifi
Craig Desjardins
Julie Fossitt
Tracey Snow
Judging Criteria
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Implementation
Project should have working functionality and contain a level of technical complexity -
Design
Application is built in a logical and well-structured manner. UI and UX of the project is user-friendly -
Pitch
Presentation was complete and well explained. Team provided an impressive experience from start to finish. -
Innovation & Social Impact
Application of project in an unexpected or original manner. The project has the potential to impact peoples' lives positively and solve important social issues. -
Theme Prize
Applicability of the prize to the theme "Unlocking the Future with AI"
Questions? Email the hackathon manager
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