About the challenge

AutoHacks is a 48-hour hackathon organized by PSN Hack Club for high school students from diverse backgrounds. It is open to all high school students from India. Teams can have 1-3 members, but all team members must be from the same school. The hackathon will be hybrid, with the opening ceremony and events held online and the closing ceremony held physically at Pathways School Noida.

The participants will have a 48 hour deadline to complete and submit their project. The theme for AutoHacks is automation. You can create any hardware or software project that automates away repetitive tasks in your life. Some ideas might include building a robot that automatically toggles your non-smart geyser to save electricity, or creating a mobile app that converts written notes to a OneNote notebook.

 

Requirements

What to Submit

Showcase Video: You must submit a link to a 4 minute (max) video demo that demonstrates the features of your application. The video must be uploaded to YouTube, Vimeo, etc. and must be set to public.

Link to code: You must link to a publically available git repository containing all the code for your project (GitHub, BitBucket, GitLab, etc.)

Devpost writeup: You must fill the submission form on devpost explaining the story behind your hack (Inspiration, challenges you ran into, etc.)

Live demo (optional): A link for other participants to try out your application.

Hackathon Sponsors

Prizes

₹ 509,435 in prizes
Access to WolframOne for all participants for 30 days
40 winners

WolframOne includes both Desktop and Cloud access, full access to the Wolfram Language and Knowledgebase, FreeCDF Deployment, 5000 Wolfram|Alpha API calls, 5000 Cloud Credits, 2 installations per user and 2 GB of Cloud Storage. The value of this access is $25.00 per user.

Wolfram Award for top 4 teams
4 winners

The award includes a one year subscription to Wolfram|One Personal edition plus a one year subscription to Wolfram|Alpha Pro. The value of each individual award is $375.00

SanDisk Ultra 64 GB USB (Mini-games Winners)
2 winners

https://www.amazon.in/SanDisk-Ultra-SDDDC2-064G-G46-Drives-Silver/dp/B01EZ0X3L8?th=1

Certificate of participation for all participants
40 winners

A virtual certificate acknowledging participation at AutoHacks.

Trophy For All Participants of the Winning Team
1 winner

A custom designed physical trophy sent to every member of the winning team

echo3D premium tier services for all participants
40 winners

Devpost Achievements

Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:

Judges

Maneesh Sharma
LambdaTest

Dmitry Khorev

Dmitry Khorev
Senior Software Engineer at Mero

Anjali Sharma

Anjali Sharma
Mumma Goose

Valentine Shkulov

Valentine Shkulov
Principal Data Scientist

Pavel Terenin

Pavel Terenin
Senior Software Engineer at Juniper Square

Veronika Golubeva

Veronika Golubeva
Data Engineer at datrics.ai

Judging Criteria

  • Originality
    The project is entirely unique from other products or ideas already implemented
  • Adherence of theme
    The project is highly relevant to the theme
  • Completion
    The project can be considered a partially working prototype with small issues that need to be addressed
  • Design
    The UI and UX are beautiful and well designed. The project is cleverly designed and organized. The design elevates the solution.
  • Technology
    The project has used a variety of existing technologies and excelled in their use

Questions? Email the hackathon manager

Tell your friends

Hackathon sponsors

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.