PlayStation®5 Console – Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 Bundle with Bonus Game for each member of the winning team.

Tickets to Pinnacle - more info here: https://pinnacle.us.org/

MLH Winner Pin

10.2" iPad WiFi 64GB (9th generation) for each member of the second place team.

MLH Winner Pin

Keychron V1 QMK Custom Mechanical Keyboards for each member of the third place team.

MLH Winner Pin

Best Build with Co:Here

Co:Here is hosting a “Best build with cohere challenge” using their very own Co:Here API. This prize will go to students that showcase the best use of Cohere API!

1st Place Prize:
$300 cash, per team member! (for a max of 4 team members)
$1,000 in Cohere Credits for the winning team (to be shared amongst team)
Cohere Swag

2nd Place Prize:
$100 cash for each team member
$500 in Cohere credits (to be shared amongst team)
Cohere Swag

3rd Place Prize:
$500 Cohere credits (to be shared amongst team)
Cohere Swag

Retro-Revolution: Bridging Eras with Innovation

We’re challenging U of T hackers to go back in time and explore the art of the possible, innovating on yesterday’s products with today’s technology.

Before there was the Internet, the Cloud, or ChatGPT, there were analog products that made Canadian’s lives easier and more enjoyable. These items helped them connect with friends, listen to music, stay organized and so much more.

But what if you could go back in time, with all the knowledge and technology we have today, and give these products an upgrade? What would they look like? How would they work?

We’re challenging you to go back in time and innovative on a piece of nostalgia, using today’s technology. Hackers can choose from 1 of 5 possible items:

Photo Album
Landline Phone
Boombox
Office Memo Pad
Rolodex

Teams will be judged on three main criteria: creativity, complexity, and innovation.

1st Place Prize: $1500 cash prize (to be shared amongst team)

2nd Place Prize: $500 cash prize (to be shared amongst team)

AI Biz-ionaries: Reimagining business in the AI/ML age

Hello Future Innovators!

We're looking for the next big AI and ML idea that'll change the game for businesses.

Your Challenge:
Cook up an awesome AI or ML project that can take any part of a business — like sales, customer support, operations, finance — and make it way better!

Your Goals:
Pick a business thing that could be way cooler with AI/ML.
Create a super-smart AI/ML fix that's totally new and can grow big.
Build a simple version that shows off how it works.
Put together a snappy pitch that'll get everyone excited.

The Extra Point:
Make sure your idea is super responsible—good for people and the planet.

The Prize:
Bragging rights, high-fives, and oh, $2,000 in gift cards.

So, are you ready to build some business magic with AI? Let's get this party started!

CSE Challenge

From development and testing to deployment and monitoring, implementing DevSecOps best practices lets you deliver better code, faster. Using new or existing application code, demonstrate a complete CI/CD pipeline that builds and deploys an application while incorporating tools and best practices such as:

GitHub pre-commit / pre-push hooks, branch protection rules, automated security and secret scanning (e.g. GitHub Advanced Security, Dependabot)
Automated static or dynamic security tests
Automated test suites with code coverage reports
Pipeline secret management
Anything that improves the security, velocity, or reliability of the software process
Feedback loops/reliable error notifications during build process

Prize: $50 Amazon gift card and exclusive CSE swag for each team member

Breaking the Stereotypes of the Past

In the modern era, women embody confidence, strength, and intelligence, consistently challenging and surpassing traditional gender stereotypes. Notably, women in STEM stand out as pioneers in fields traditionally dominated by men, breaking barriers and carving out spaces with their expertise. This challenge is rooted in acknowledging and addressing the historical difficulties and stereotypes that women have faced or continue to overcome daily.

Celebrate your creativity and innovation by showcasing an inspiring project that not only reflects your individual achievements but also resonates as a beacon of encouragement for aspiring women everywhere. Your project has the potential to create a meaningful impact hence embrace the opportunity to share your experiences, highlighting the resilience, determination, and skill that define your path.

Good luck, Woman in STEM—remember, the sky is not the limit!

First Place Prize: $50 gift cards for each team member

Second Place Prize: WIXE x WiCS club merch

Create a video game that pays homage to the golden era of gaming, drawing inspiration from classic titles that hold a special place in the hearts of gamers. Your goal is to evoke a sense of nostalgia while incorporating innovative elements that make your game unique.

Guidelines
- A brief video presentation/demo showcasing the gameplay and unique aspects of your nostalgic game.
- Strongly Encouraged: A link to a playable prototype or demo of the game!

Prize: A retro gaming package worth $250 (to be shared amongst team)

Best Beginner Hack

UofTHacks wants to help encourage beginner students to pursue a pathway in STEM. As such, we have decided to make our UofTHacks challenge, the Best Beginner Hack. These are for students that have been to less than 3 hackathons prior and have no internship experience.

Prize: $50 Amazon Gift Cards for each team member

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](https://hackp.ac/auth0-signup) and use any of [the Auth0 APIs](https://hackp.ac/auth0-docs) for a chance to win a pair of wireless headphones and a battery pack for you and each member of your team!

Breadboard IoT Kit

Still not sure what backend to use in your hack? [Kintone](https://hackp.ac/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](https://hackp.ac/kintone-developer-license) and visiting the MLH table. If you [use Kintone in your hackathon project](https://hackp.ac/kintone-hackathon-idea), you'll have a chance to win a breadboard IoT kit to power up the hardware hacking for each member of your team!

Starknet Care Package & a ticket to a Starknet sponsored Web3 conference of your choice!!

Starknet is redefining the very notion of Web3 by tackling one of the most intimidating technical challenges in the industry - scaling a blockchain while maintaining its security and decentralization.

Starknet was the first general purpose ZK-Rollup service on Ethereum in Feb. 2022, and has proved its potential to be a market leader. Essentially, it increases the processing speed, while reducing the cost of operating on the Ethereum blockchain.

As a result, we are seeing a variety of "traditional" tech businesses - payments / social media / AI / online gaming - now being integrated with blockchains using our technology.

Moreover, the Starknet community is a growing pool of global talent - from feisty college students to some of the most illustrious PhDs in the world.

Wanna be a part of this growing community? Let's get you started!

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Wireless Headphones

Taipy is a powerful yet easy to use open-source Python library for creating full stack web applications! If you’re a Python developer, this library enables you to build interactive and dynamic graphical user interfaces and support them with data-driven backends. All of these functionalities are just a pip install taipy away and can cut your development time in half! Use Taipy in your hackathon project for a chance to win a set of Wireless Headphones for you and each of your team members, as well as a chance to have your project featured on the Taipy website!

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!

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!

To give you some inspiration, we're sharing some educational and technical resources:

- [This list](http://hackp.ac/schmidt-LE-challenges) of the most pressing issues educational leaders have around AI

- An introduction to the emerging field of [Learning Engineering](http://hackp.ac/schmidt-LE-intro)

- [A map of AI in education](http://hackp.ac/schmidt-ai-map)

- A [recent competition series using LLMs](http://hackp.ac/schmidt-LLM) for automated essay evaluation