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.
Prizes
Best Overall
The judges have decided to award this prize to 2 teams. Each team member receives $250 each.
Best Use of Theme
Mini Pirate Ship Building Set
Best Use of Visual/Interface
Baltimore Aquarium Tickets
Most Creative
Gemmy Big Mouth Billy Bass The Singing Sensation
Best Real World Application
Gift Card to Anker
Best Beginner Hack
Havit Mechanical Keyboards
Best Use of Hardware
Schrodinger's Chargers
Best Use of MongoDB Atlas
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
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
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
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
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
Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:
Judges
Leyla Johnson
CEO, Mohawk Games
Nick Ward
Cybersecurity Analyst at Gibbs and Cox, a Leidos Company
Maryanne D'Souza
Software Engineer at Verituity
Aaron Flaaen
Economist, Federal Reserve Board and Georgetown University
John Hanks
Networking, George Mason University
Denny Mauricio de Oliveira
Research Space Scientist, NASA
Julian Chavez
hackUMBC, SWE
Sophia Semilla
hackUMBC
Molly Johnson
Graphic Design Student, JMU Office of Admissions
Christopher Johnson
greymatter.io
Dustin Smithers
Software Development, Edgesouce Corporation
Patrick Riley
SWE, greymatter.io
Will Mueller
Deloitte
Jaishankar Inukonda
Data Engineering, Elevance Health Inc
Somya Singh
Information Systems
Jyoti D Rozario
Software Engineer
Ronie Gabriel Altejar
Judging Criteria
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Judging
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