An iPad for every team member.

AirPods Pro for everyone on the team!

Corsair Keyboards for everyone on the team!

Drones for the whole team.

$250USD in ETH for each team member. Presented by Berkeley RDI!

Apple Watches for everyone on the team.

Everyone gets an air fryer!

Nintendo Switches for every team member.

$1000 first prize, $500 second prize, $500 third prize + winter internship offers for one member of each of the top 3 teams

$1000 raffle for starring us on github https://github.com/mindsdb/mindsdb
5x$100 winners drawn on Sunday
5x$100 winners drawn on Wednesday

$2500 USD of Intel Developer Cloud credits

$2,000 for the winning team

$1000 to the top 3 apps integrating XRPL

AirPods Max, $2,500 in Together Credits

$2,000 for 1st place, $1,500 for 2nd place, $1000 for 3rd place

Gift Cards

"“Best use of CockroachDB severless” trophies and $100 Amazon giftcards (up to 4).
CockroachDB t-shirts for workshop participants (while supplies last). "

$3,500 for 1st prize, $1,000 for 2nd, and $500 for 3rd. Judged by Adi Kancherla, co-Founder, Pixl and Eli Reinhardt, Partner @ Steel Perlot

Build a hack that focuses on improving the developer experience in some meaningful way - this could be tackling any part of the development lifecycle (creating, modifying or testing software)! Note that you don't have to use Warp but we'd love for you to try it out (we're a new terminal emulator)! As prizes, we'll have 4 x Warp Eddie Bauer Duffel Bags and 4 x Amazon Echo Dots!

Vectara Credits

Prize of $1000 Cash,
$500 in Hume Credits
Meet and greet with Alan Cowen, Chief Scientist and CEO of Hume.

Beats wireless headphones for all winners (4) and a Milvus swag pack.

$1000 Amazon Gift Card + Amazfit Balance for each member + One-year free membership for (Zepp Aura + Zepp Coach) for the 1st place Winning Team - Amazfit Balance for each member + One-year free membership for (Zepp Aura + Zepp Coach) for the 1st place Winning Team for the 2nd place Winning Team - Amazfit Balance for each member for the 3rd place Winning Team

https://wispr.notion.site/Best-HCI-Award-Cal-Hacks-cc24d77b8e20461bb7dd2fcf53707976

Interview with Wispr founders for a full time job / internship + Wispr swag.

5k USDC Prize Pool:
1st Place: $3,000
2nd Place: $1,500
3rd Place: $500

Valuable tokenized assets from your favorite movies, opportunity to visit Eluvio HQ, potential internship opportunities and more!

$1500 for the best prize, T-Shirts and free hosting for all participants

Libre Mini Computer with Redis Stack Server Pre-Installed;
Redis Cloud is the easiest way to build and scale real-time applications - Period! It includes Redis Stack, adding indexing, querying, full-text search, JSON, time-series, and probabilistic data structures to the already-rich set of features of Redis.

Redis Stack works with all of your favorite programming languages and can be added to any existing application. It’s the easiest way to build real-time applications that scale and perform.

Show us how you’ve used Redis Cloud in a way that showcases your unique and specific data structure needs and each member of your team could win a personal, portable Redis Stack server IOT hardware unit to keep developing on the go. Find out why Stack Overflow Developers have voted Redis their “most loved and admired” noSQL database for years-running by rolling Redis into your MLH Hackathon project.

Sign up for your free Redis Cloud account, and head over to the MLH jump off page on Redis University for more info and docs links. Enter coupon code MLHFall2023 to claim your Redis Cloud credits and get started for free!

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!

Compact Mechanical Keyboard;
Hedera is a next generation blockchain technology that’s accessible from familiar programming languages like Java and JavaScript. Their goal? To make Web3 development even more accessible to hackers like you! Build a project on Hedera's test network for a chance to win amazing Compact Mechanical Keyboards for you and your team!
Build a decentralized application on Hedera using our JavaScript SDK.
Build applications that never sleep using EVM compatible smart contract service.
Say goodbye to cumbersome databases and hello to seamless scalability of Hedera Consensus Service. With no need for writing your own APIs your data is securely stored and easily retrieved.

3D Printing Pen;
TinyMCE is a rich-text editor that allows you to create formatted content within a hacker-friendly interface. Adding a Rich Text Editor component has never been easier! Alongside functionality like bold, italics, underlines, hyperlinks, or titles (to name a few), the editor also allows users to enable HTML tags, MarkDown or CSS. TinyMCE even gives you the ability to edit your text elements directly with no code, similar to the way you would edit a word document.

TinyMCE also has dozens of plugins that allow developers to customize their user’s experience. From implementing accessibility checkers, autocorrect, and enhanced image editing to utilizing emoticons, adding responsive design with auto resize and even a ChatGPT AI Assistant, there’s a plugin for every use case imaginable!

Signup for TinyMCE for a free trial and get started today, no credit card required! To qualify for the Best Use of TinyMCE prize category, be sure to render the editor with a Tiny Cloud account and use at least 3 open source plugins and 2 premium plugins in your project, for a chance to win a 3D Printing Pen for you and each of your team members!

Fidelity Branded Wireless Charger;
At Fidelity, accessibility is viewed as a major key to the success of their business, which is why they are challenging you to come up with innovative ways to make tech more accessible! We want you to use your hacking skills to find and build solutions that put opportunities and resources within reach for all communities. The team with the best accessibility hack will win a Fidelity branded wireless charger for each team member!

GitHub Swag;

GitHub is one of the best ways to collaborate, push code, get feedback, and show the world what you’ve built during a hackathon. To take it a step further, GitHub is now offering you access to industry tools, events & learning resources through something called GitHub Global Campus. Win this weekend’s Most Creative Use of GitHub prize category, first by signing up for GitHub Global Campus and second by using a GitHub repository to host your hackathon project’s code! Make sure your use of GitHub stands out with a detailed ReadMe page, meaningful pull requests and collaboration history, and even a GitHub pages deployment!

Wireless YoYo Speaker;
MATLAB and Simulink are computational tools used at over 100,000 businesses, government and university sites in over 190 countries. Use MATLAB and/or Simulink exclusively or integrate them into another tool for your next hack to win an exclusive MathWorks branded Wireless YoYo Speaker! You can also claim a free MATLAB software license to get started.

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!