About the challenge

Use the skills you learned in the workshops or on your own to create a pirate-themed project! It can be as simple or complex as you would like. There are many prize categories and you might surprise yourself by winning :)

Requirements

What to Submit

What you submit depends on what you make. Just make sure to include your project file.

Hackathon Sponsors

Prizes

$2,304 in prizes
Best Overall
2 winners

The judges have decided to award this prize to 2 teams. Each team member receives $250 each.

Best Use of Theme
1 winner

Mini Pirate Ship Building Set

Best Use of Visual/Interface
1 winner

Baltimore Aquarium Tickets

Most Creative
1 winner

Gemmy Big Mouth Billy Bass The Singing Sensation

Best Real World Application
1 winner

Gift Card to Anker

Best Beginner Hack
1 winner

Havit Mechanical Keyboards

Best Use of Hardware
1 winner

Schrodinger's Chargers

Best Use of MongoDB Atlas
1 winner

MongoDB Atlas takes the leading modern database and makes it accessible in the cloud! Get started with a $50 credit for students (https://mlh.link/mongodb) or sign up for the Atlas free forever tier, no credit card required (https://mlh.link/mongodb-free). Along with a suite of services and functionalities, you'll have everything you need to manage all of your data, and you can get a headstart with free resources from MongoDB University (https://mlh.link/mongodb-university)! Build a hack using MongoDB Atlas for a chance to win a M5GO IoT Starter Kit for you and each member of your team.

Best Use of Auth0
1 winner

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://mlh.link/auth0-signup) and use any of the Auth0 APIs (https://mlh.link/auth0-docs) for a chance to win a pair of wireless headphones for you and each member of your team!

Best Use of Streamlit
1 winner

Want to take your Python skills to the next level? Streamlit (https://mlh.link/streamlit) is an open-source Python library that makes it easy to share and build custom web apps for machine learning, data science, and more. Instead of writing Python scripts without a UI, you can create a beautiful web app, complete with widgets and data visualizations, and deploy it for free to the Streamlit Community Cloud (https://mlh.link/streamlit-deploy). You can even build a fully functional LLM-powered app with just 25 lines of code! Hack with Streamlit this weekend for your chance to win an Arduino Tiny ML Kit for you and each member of your team.

Best Use of .Tech
1 winner

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 GenAI
1 winner

Calling all Hackers! It’s time to push the boundaries of what's possible with Gen AI. It's like having a teammate with superpowers that can help you create amazing things. Do you want to build AI-powered apps to make your friends say, "Whoa, how'd you do that?" This weekend, we want you to build projects that bring Gen AI APIs to your end users. Each member of our winning team will take home a FitBit and Wacom Drawing Tablet.

Devpost Achievements

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Judges

Leyla Johnson

Leyla Johnson
CEO, Mohawk Games

Nick	Ward

Nick Ward
Cybersecurity Analyst at Gibbs and Cox, a Leidos Company

Maryanne D'Souza

Maryanne D'Souza
Software Engineer at Verituity

Aaron Flaaen

Aaron Flaaen
Economist, Federal Reserve Board and Georgetown University

John Hanks

John Hanks
Networking, George Mason University

Denny Mauricio de Oliveira

Denny Mauricio de Oliveira
Research Space Scientist, NASA

Julian Chavez

Julian Chavez
hackUMBC, SWE

Sophia Semilla

Sophia Semilla
hackUMBC

Molly Johnson

Molly Johnson
Graphic Design Student, JMU Office of Admissions

Christopher Johnson

Christopher Johnson
greymatter.io

Dustin Smithers

Dustin Smithers
Software Development, Edgesouce Corporation

Patrick Riley

Patrick Riley
SWE, greymatter.io

Will Mueller

Will Mueller
Deloitte

Jaishankar Inukonda

Jaishankar Inukonda
Data Engineering, Elevance Health Inc

Somya Singh

Somya Singh
Information Systems

Jyoti	D Rozario

Jyoti D Rozario
Software Engineer

Ronie Gabriel Altejar

Ronie Gabriel Altejar

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