What is HackUTA?
HackUTA, one of North Texas' largest hackathons, is a 24-hour marathon for students to design, develop, and pitch a project from scratch. Regardless of experience, skill, major, or background, students will work together to pitch the best solution possible.
Why participate?
Come develop skills, make friends, and earn points at our workshops, socials, mini-event games, and challenges. We will be providing free meals, snacks, boba, and the chance to earn prizes through hacking tracks and points. Aditionally, a free HackUTA 6 T-shirt will be awarded to students who demo their project to our judges.
How do I prepare? What if I'm a beginner? What will be available for me?
During the event, there will be technical—and non-technical—opportunities hosted throughout, and mentors ready to assist throughout the 24-hour marathon. We highly recommend beginners submit their projects, regardless of how clean it is! The experience is more than worth it. :)
Requirements
Judging will be conducted in person. For a project to be considered for prizes, it must be submitted on Devpost and include the 3 items:
1. Title
2. Description
3. GitHub URL
Prizes
Main Track
Prize pool TBA
Best Beginner Hack
Prize: Mini Projectors
Best Use of MongoDB Atlas
M5GO IoT Starter Kit
MongoDB Atlas takes the leading modern database and makes it accessible in the cloud! Get started with a $50 credit for students or sign up for the Atlas free forever tier (no credit card required). 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! 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 Streamlit
Arduino Tiny ML Kit
Want to take your Python skills to the next level? 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. 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 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.
Best Use of MATLAB
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.
Best AI Application Built with Cloudflare
Arduino Kit
Cloudflare is one of the world’s largest networks enabling hackers like you to build, deploy, and deliver trusted applications, no matter where you are! With Cloudflare, you’ll have all the building blocks to create a full-stack application; from C3 (create Cloudflare command line) instance deployment to object storage. You can even run GenAI (LLMs, text to image, Voice to text etc..) in the cloud and leverage your AI functionality via API requests using Cloudlfare’s Workers AI! Enjoy Cloudflare’’s generous free tier to get started at no cost! This weekend, we want you to build an AI Application utilizing Cloudflare’s numerous services for a chance to win Arduino Kits for you and your team!
Best AI Project with Databricks Open Source
Assorted Lego Sets
Databricks is an open analytics platform that helps you build, deploy, and maintain large scale data & AI solutions! Whether you’re working with large language models using Mosaic AI, storing data with Databricks Data Lakes, or deploying GenAI powered applications using MLflow, Databricks Open Source software has the tools you need to make your hackathon project state of the art. Build an AI powered project utilizing Databricks Open Source projects like the ones mentioned, or Databricks friendly Open Source projects like LanceDB and Llama Index, for a chance to win some amazing prizes for you and your teammates! Check out the following link to see all qualifying Databricks' Open Source technologies.
Devpost Achievements
Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:
Judges
Angelina Abuhilal
HackUTA
Judging Criteria
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Technology
How difficult is the hack? -
Design
How was the user experience? -
Learning
Have you worked something similar or is this new? -
Completion
Does it work? -
Originality
How creative is the project?
Questions? Email the hackathon manager
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