Welcome to SFHacks 2024
Be prepared for our first in-person hackathon in 5 years! During this hackathon, we encourage you to build your wildest ideas and try out technologies that you’ve never heard of or used before. This event is not only about problem-solving but also celebrating ingenuity. Explore and branch out of your comfort zone. Collaborate with others, learn from mentors, interact with company sponsors, and have fun!
The City Life Challenge Track encourages you to find innovative ways to tackle issues faced by everyday urban communities like here in San Francisco. Any project that attempts a challenge track will automatically receive a slight increase in the judging categories. Topics include transportation, housing, offices, restaurants, and so on.
Requirements
How to Submit
- Your code must be available publicly (ideally in a git repository)
- Your code must remain public post-event to be eligible for prizes. If your repo is not public, new winners may be selected.
- You must have completed all registration steps for the hackathon.
- You cannot submit projects that include prior work.
What to Submit
- Provide a URL to your code repository for judging and testing.
- Team name and team members
- Project description
Prizes
MLH: Best Domain Name from GoDaddy Registry
Hack from Home Kit
GoDaddy Registry is giving you everything you need to be the best hacker no matter where you are. Register your domain name with GoDaddy Registry for a chance to win a Hack from Home Kit! Each Kit contains wireless earbuds, blue light glasses, selfie ring light and a pouch for easy transport.
MLH: 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!
MLH: Best Use of Flow
$200 USD in FLOW Token
Flow is a public, decentralized, layer-one blockchain designed for creating limitless Web3 apps for mainstream adoption. Flow empowers hackers like you to build decentralized applications and share them with the world. Write safe and readable smart contracts with Cadence and explore the potential of composable, on-chain logic. With SDKs in multiple languages like Javascript, Go, Kotlin, Python, Swift, Unity, you can jump in and start your hack using Flow this weekend for a chance to win $200 USD worth of FLOW token for each member of your team!
MLH: 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. Your team can snag a FREE microcontroller by signing up for Kintone and visiting the MLH table, and 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!
MLH: 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!
MLH: Sauce Labs 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 and running at least one test on the platform. Include a screenshot of your test results in your project submission to get entered into the Sauce Labs raffle for a chance to win a backpack, beanie, and a bottle of Sauce Labs' famous hot sauce for you and each of your team members!
SF Hacks: Best AI Hack
This challenge invites you to develop an AI or use an
existing AI in your project.
Prize: OpenAI Swag Bags with GPT Plus sponsored by OpenAI & Echo Dots
SF Hacks: Best Hardware Hack
Using your preferred hardware or hardware emulator, build a
hack of your choice.
Prize: Arduino Starter Kits and Raspberry Pis sponsored by SFSU CS Department
SF Hacks: Best Sustainability Hack
Develop a hack that provides an innovative and practical solution that promotes sustainable development.
Prize: Air Fryer
SF Hacks: Best Design Hack
Develop a hack with innovative and visually appealing user interfaces (UI) and user experiences (UX).
Prize: Dell 27 Inch Monitor
SF Hacks: Best First Time Hack
You are eligible for this category if at least half of your team is made of 1st time hackers.
Prize: Airpods 3rd Generation sponsored by Fastly
Company Track: Best Use of AI and Verbwire API
Top 15 Teams who use the Verbwire API and AI get premium API credits
Company Track: Most Innovative Use of Verbwire API
Top 5 Teams who use the Verbwire API get premium API credits
Company Track: Best Use of Vectara
1st Place: $1000 Vectara Credits
2nd Place: $500 Vectara Credits
Company Track: Best Use of Neurelo
Apple Magic Keyboard
Company Track: Best Use of Neurelo with Hackathon Theme
Sony Noise Cancelling Headphones with Mic
Company Track: Best Use of Fireworks.ai
1st Place: $1000 Fireworks.ai Credits
2nd Place: $500 Fireworks.ai Credits
Company Track: Best Emerging Technology
GoPro Cameras sponsored by Emerging Technologies Initiative
Company Track: Best Use of Coze
Nintendo Switch Lites sponsored by Bytedance/Coze
Company Track: Best Use of Google Cloud
Google Cloud Branded Backpacks and Water Bottles
Devpost Achievements
Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:
Judges
Chirag Shah
CEO of Neurelo
Nasser Shahrasbi
Director of Lam-Larsen Business Technology Initiative
Raymond Thai
Founding PM at Fireworks.ai
Joshua Alphonse
Staff Developer Advocate at ByteDance
Zara Zhang
GTM at Coze
Adam Leonard
Software Engineer
Allen Wang
Software Engineer at Google
Arno Puder
Computer Science Department Chair
Claudia Zhao
Growth Lead Pave
Joseph Hui
Andrew Patterson
Full-Stack Engineer at Stitchflow
shiva potu
LegalZoom
Delia Lazarescu
Software Engineer & Content Creator
Hari Manivannan
Director of Customer Success at Mastercard
Luis Flores Martinez
Principal Software Engineer, Core Systems
Manika Kapoor
NVIDIA
Pablo Lujambio
Cisco
Rodrigo Oliveira
CTO of Glassdoor
Sreenivasen R
Engineering Manager at Yelp
Pranav Kashyap
Maulik Suchak
Apple
Kari Wu
Mark Kim
Judging Criteria
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Idea
How well does it align with the theme and track? -
Implementation
All features presented are working. Complexity of project/features? -
Design
Is the user interface intuitive for users? How does the design lead users to different features? Is it scalable? -
Presentation
Why did you decide to make this your project/what problem are you trying to solve? Hardships and overcoming them (problem solving)? Clearly explain features. -
Track Application
How well did you utilize the technologies or problems of this track? Did you work with the challenge track?
Questions? Email the hackathon manager
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