Welcome to Rice University's 13th annual fall hackathon!
Join us to build and show off awesome projects, collaborate with other hackers, participate in technical workshops, and network with industry-leading companies!
Check out our website at hack.rice.edu. Note: you must apply through our website in order to participate.
Requirements
Devpost Submission
Whenever you are providing "Additional info" about your project, you will get to the "Sponsor / Special Prizes" section. Here, you MUST CHOOSE AT MOST 1 TRACK, yet you can choose MULTIPLE CHALLENGES.
Prior to the Devpost submission deadline (Sunday 9/24, 9:00 am), submit a 3-4 minute video to Devpost. We have included a recommended outline for your video submission.
30 seconds Intro
Project name, members, track/challenge, project purpose, technologies used
2 minutes Demo
Let’s see your project in action!
30 seconds Technical design and implementation
High-level overview of how you designed your code
30 seconds Impact
The real-world value of your project; how you’d improve it in the future
Prizes
Top Overall Project: First Place
Nintendo Switch – OLED Model
Top Overall Project: Second Place
Apple AirPods Pro (2nd Gen)
Top Overall Project: Third Place
Acer SB272U Ebiip 1440p Monitor
Health and Biotech Track
Apple Watch SE (2nd Gen)
Productivity Track
Logitech MX Keys Mini & Logitech MX Master 3S
First Timer’s Track
Sony WH-CH720N Headphones
Chevron Challenge: Carbon Capture Challenge
1st - Apple iPad Mini (Latest 6th Generation) 64GB, Wifi-6
2nd - $100 Amazon Gift Cards (Per Member)
Capital One Challenge: Best Financial Hack
$250 Amazon Gift Cards (Per Member)
Data to Knowledge Challenge: Best Use of Data Science
$150 Amazon Gift Cards (Per Member)
SLB Challenge: Best Project that Addresses Climate Change
1st - Holy Stone GPS Drone with 4K Camera
2nd - Night Vision Binoculars
MathWorks Challenge: Best Use of MATLAB
MathWorks Exclusive Swag
Best Use of Google Cloud
Build your hackathon project with a suite of secure storage, powerful compute, and integrated data analytics products provided by Google Cloud. See full list of products here: g.co/cloud. Learn more about the tools and opportunities with Google Cloud by joining the Google Cloud Student Innovators program - goo.gle/student-innovators. Winners will receive a Google Cloud branded backpack!
Most Creative Use of GitHub
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! Winners will receive an GitHub Octocat Puzzle.
Best Use of Streamlit
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 a Pimoroni Picosystem Handheld Programmable Gaming System for you and each member of your team.
Best .Tech Domain Name
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!
Devpost Achievements
Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:
Judges
Zain Adil
Chevron
AJ Soud
Chevron
Syed Husain
Chevron
Jun Too
Chevron
Robert Chadwick
SLB
Sneha Poddar
SLB
Zohaib Imam
Capital One
Isabel Zhao
Capital One
John Coleman
Samsung
Kareem El-Sadi
Austin Sun
Torqata
Karan Gupta
Michael Mancuso
Nicolae Sapoval
Wil Thomason
Deepsh Jain
AWS
Judging Criteria
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Relevance
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Originality/Creativity
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Practicality/Impact
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User experience/Design
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Technical Rigor
Questions? Email the hackathon manager
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