LA Hacks is the largest collegiate hackathon in Southern California, and this year, we're celebrating being bigger and better than ever.
LA Hacks is excited to celebrate its 12th year back at Pauley Pavilion. With the ever changing and fast growing world of tech, our theme this year is the Grand Adventure. Our team is excited to welcome 1,000 participants, mentors, volunteers, and sponsors back to LA Hacks to learn, develop, and innovate on this journey.
Since its inception, LA Hacks has always been about community—the organizers, the sponsors, the hackers, the mentors, the volunteers, and all the people we hope to impact. And we plan on keeping it that way. As students, we understand that juggling academic commitments, job searches, and extracurriculars is overwhelming enough as it is. From our karaoke nights to sessions with trailblazers in the tech industry, LA Hacks is a space for you to take a break from all of that. Find inspiration in the people you meet and the projects you create. Come join us April 19-21, 2024 for 36 hours of building cool things, meeting cool people, and making cool memories with friends, both new and old.
Prizes
LA Hacks 2024 First Place
MSI Laptops
LA Hacks 2024 Second Place
Bose QC Noise Cancelling Headphones + MSI Titan Backpacks
LA Hacks 2024 Third Place
Gaming Monitor + MSI Ergoflex Monitor Arms
Best Touch Grass Hack
- CamelBak Backpacks
- Lego Flowers
Best Good to Go Hack
Mayan Hammocks
Best Code Green Hack
- Eco Friendly Tote Bag
- Owala Water Bottle
Best Touch Screen Hack
- Keychron K6 Pro Keyboard
PSTC Company Challenge
1st Place:
- PS5's
Google Company Challenge
1st Place:
- $3000 Cash
2nd Place:
- $1500 Cash
3rd Place:
- $500 Cash
Fetch AI Company Challenge
All 3 winning teams receive:
- $2000 Cash
- Interview w/CEO and Founder Humayun Sheikh
- Feature on Fetch Social Media
Intel Company Challenge
1st place:
- $2500 Intel® Developer Cloud credits + Lenovo AI PC for
each member
2nd place:
- $1000 Intel® Developer Cloud credit per person
3rd place:
- $500 Intel Developer Cloud credit per person
Infosys Company Challenge
1st Place
- Each team member will receive JBL Headphones and fast-track consideration for Infosys' summer internship
Reflex Company Challenge
1st Place:
- $1000 Cash
Raffle Prizes
Best Use of MongDB 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 Auth0
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 and use any of the Auth0 APIs for a chance to win a pair of wireless headphones and a battery pack for you and each member of your team!
Best Use of Starknet
Starknet Care Package for Coders
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.
Best .Tech Domain Name
Best .Tech Domain Name
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!
Best Use of AI in Education
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!
Sauce Labs Raffle
Sauce Labs Swag Bag
Sauce Labs empowers you to develop, test, and deliver top-tier web and mobile apps quickly and efficiently. Their unified platform makes automated testing and error monitoring easy to do, enabling you to save time building your hackathon project! Let Sauce Labs help resolve any issues with your code so you can get back to building an award winning hack.
Make sure your project is hackathon-tested by signing up for a Sauce Labs account and running at least one test on the platform. Include a screenshot of your test results in your project submission to get entered into the Sauce Labs raffle for a chance to win a backpack, beanie, and a bottle of Sauce Labs' famous hot sauce for you and each of your team members!
Devpost Achievements
Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:
Judges
LA Hacks
Judging Criteria
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Originality
Does it do something entirely novel, or at least take a fresh approach to an old problem? This category will be based solely on the idea. -
Impact / Usefulness
Impact lies in our hackathon’s roots. We look for hacks that have large social impact. Is the hack impactful? Does it fulfill a real need people have? This category will be based solely on the idea. -
Feasibility / Practicality
At LA Hacks, we look for new and original ideas, we want hackers to think outside the box, but we also want the ideas to be somewhat practical. Is this project feasible and practical in the next 3-5 years? This category will be based solely on the idea. -
Relation to Track
How closely is the project related to the track that it is submitted to? Is the hack made directly for the track or is it just a loose fit?
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