About the challenge

RoboTech is a unique kind of hackathon, focused on building robotics projects with a real world impact. Students will participate in one or more of the competition tracks: Design, Robot Body, Circuitry, and Software. The Design track will be a presentation of your idea to a panel of judges, while the other three will be more traditional hackathon project submissions with a project expo. You are free to participate in only the Design track, only another track, or any combination! This year, RoboTech's challenge is to create a project focused on mental health and wellness. Event Packet

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Requirements

What to Build

Design Track:

Create a presentation describing your innovative solution to a creative problem. Your project will be judged according to the feasibility of implementing your idea as while as how it's potential impact and creativity are communicated.

Other Tracks:

Create a project in your track that contributes to solving a unique problem related to mental health and wellness. Your submission will be judged according to your project's execution, complexity, contribution to wellness, and creativity.

What to Submit

Design Track:

Submit your presentation materials to DevPost and a ~2 minute long video presentation. You will be contacted with your presentation time slot.

Other Tracks:

Submit a description of your project's function to DevPost and a ~2 minute long video demonstration, as well as any relevant files, such as photos, source code, and CAD files. You will be contacted with your presentation time slot.

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Prizes

$4,600 in prizes
1st Overall
1 winner

A Nintendo switch for each team member and auto acceptance to Create-X startup launch.

1st Design Track
1 winner

$100 Amazon gift card for each team member

1st Body Track
1 winner

$100 Amazon gift card for each team member

1st Electrical Track
1 winner

$100 Amazon gift card for each team member

1st Software Track
1 winner

$100 Amazon gift card for each team member

Devpost Achievements

Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:

Judges

To be announced

Judging Criteria

  • Theme Alignment (All Tracks)
    An excellent project is primarily concerned with improving physical and/or mental health.
  • Ingenuity (All Tracks)
    An excellent project is based on a highly innovative concept or key principles unheard of before.
  • Execution (Design)
    An excellent project's presentation materials paint a complete picture of the product, anticipates questions, and give background to uninitiated viewers.
  • Impact (Design)
    An excellent project would be highly disruptive offering a unique solution in terms of improving health.
  • Feasibility (Design)
    An excellent project's final concept offers a simple and clear possible implementation, guarantees quick adoption by users, pays for itself, or makes a strong business use-case
  • Execution (Body, Circuitry, and Software)
    An excellent project would show that work during the hackathon brought the project to completion with key features intact and if applicable, future additions are clearly laid out.
  • Complexity (Body, Circuitry, and Software)
    An excellent submission would include an attempted project that is technically impressive and challenging.
  • Learning (Body, Circuitry, and Software)
    An excellent submission would include learning in the project’s Devpost description detailing a project where team members showed significant growth in technical or soft-skills.

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