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Prizes

$400 in prizes
1st Place Hack
1 winner

2nd Place Hack
1 winner

3rd Place Hack
1 winner

Best Space Themed Hack
1 winner

Most Creative Use of GitHub
1 winner

GitHub is one of the best ways to collaborate, push code, get feedback, and show the world what you’ve built during a hackathon. To take it a step further, GitHub is now offering you access to industry tools, events & learning resources through something called GitHub Global Campus. Win this weekend’s Most Creative Use of GitHub prize category, first by signing up for GitHub Global Campus and second by using a GitHub repository to host your hackathon project’s code! Make sure your use of GitHub stands out with a detailed ReadMe page, meaningful pull requests and collaboration history, and even a GitHub pages deployment!

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 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 MATLAB
1 winner

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 .Tech Domain Name
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 Flow
1 winner

Flow is a public, decentralized, layer-one blockchain designed for creating limitless Web3 apps for mainstream adoption. Flow empowers hackers like you to build decentralized applications and share them with the world. Write safe and readable smart contracts with Cadence and explore the potential of composable, on-chain logic. With SDKs in multiple languages like Javascript, Go, Kotlin, Python, Swift, Unity, you can jump in and start your hack using Flow this weekend for a chance to win $100 USD worth of FLOW token for each member of your team!

Best Use of Circle
1 winner

With Circle, you can embed secure wallets into your app in just minutes. Circle Web3 wallets are compatible with multiple blockchains and are supported by over a dozen programming language SDKs. Circle’s programmable wallets will enable you to add secure transactions to your hackathon project using RESTful APIs, with options for both user and developer controlled transactions. If your hackathon idea involves in-app purchases, user to user payments, app to user payments, or all of the above, integrating Circle programmable wallets to your Web2 or Web3 tech-stack may be the perfect solution.

Best Use of Data
1 winner

Hudson River Trading: Effective use of data is important to the decisions we make at Hudson River Trading, and we’re always looking for innovative new ways to strategize with data. This prize will be awarded to the hack that best integrates the use of data into their project.

Prize: Mechanical Keyboards

Best Security Hack
1 winner

Sandia National Laborities;
Prize: Beats Headphones

Best Campus Infrastructure Hack
1 winner

CMU Graduate Student Association

Best Creative Hack
1 winner

The Trade Desk; Prize: Headphones

Devpost Achievements

Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:

Judges

Jeffrey John

Jeffrey John
ACM@CMU

Jesse Ding

Jesse Ding
ACM@CMU

Neeha Kurelli

Neeha Kurelli
ACM@CMU

Aarav Bajaj

Aarav Bajaj
ACM@CMU

Tanisha Saxena

Tanisha Saxena
ACM@CMU

Judging Criteria

  • Usefulness
    How likely is someone to use this product?
  • Technology Complexity
    Is the project implementation technically complex? - Does it make good use of APIs, SDKs, database integration, animations, algorithms, etc
  • Potential
    How well would this product perform in real life?
  • Originality
    Is this project idea original?
  • Presentation
    Presentation and demo quality.

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