About HackSC-X
Located in Los Angeles in DTLA, HackSC-X is a 24-hour hackathon that combines innovation, education, and connection. Our theme this year, A Brighter Path, looks at AI to shape a brighter and more promising world for all, whether that be the energy sector, accessibility, learning, or healthcare. Participate in our speaker events, attend workshops, and build relationships that will last a lifetime in a weekend of fun!
Requirements
Submit your project on Devpost. This is due at 1:00 pm. Late submissions will not be accepted. The submission form is not short, so do not start a minute before the deadline.
Prizes
Energy Winner
- Echo Dot 5th Generation
- Divoom Time box Evo
- Keurig
- Projector
Accessibility Winner
- Air Fryer
- Wireless Charger
- Speaker
- Monitor
Learning Winner
- Film Camera
- Mechanical Keyboard
- Mouse
- Headphones
Patient Safety Tech Challenge
$1400 total for the winning team (Amazon Gift Cards)
Battlepass Winner
1st Place - Amazon Firestick
2nd Place - $25 Amazon Giftcard
3rd Place - $10 Amazon Giftcard
Best Use of Google Cloud
Google Cloud Backpack
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!
Be sure to redeem your Google Cloud Credits as soon as possible through the Google Cloud Credit Form. Use the promo code in your pre-event email to access the form!
Most Creative Use of GitHub
GitHub Swag
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 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 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 some awesome tech hardware for you and each member of your team.
Best Use of Circle
Circle Branded Hardware Wallet
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.
Sign up for a developer account and start using Circle’s APIs today, for a chance to win a Circle Branded Hardware Wallet for you and each of your teammates!
Most Creative Use of Redis Cloud
Libre Mini Computer with Redis Stack Server Pre-Installed
Redis Cloud is the easiest way to build and scale real-time applications - Period! It includes Redis Stack, adding indexing, querying, full-text search, JSON, time-series, and probabilistic data structures to the already-rich set of features of Redis.
Redis Stack works with all of your favorite programming languages and can be added to any existing application. It’s the easiest way to build real-time applications that scale and perform.
Show us how you’ve used Redis Cloud in a way that showcases your unique and specific data structure needs and each member of your team could win a personal, portable Redis Stack server IOT hardware unit to keep developing on the go. Find out why Stack Overflow Developers have voted Redis their “most loved and admired” noSQL database for years-running by rolling Redis into your MLH Hackathon project.
Sign up for your free Redis Cloud account, and head over to the MLH jump off page on Redis University for more info and docs links. Enter coupon code MLHFall2023 to claim your Redis Cloud credits and get started for free!
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!
Best Use of Soroban
Power Bank
Soroban is an open-source Rust-based developer-friendly smart contracts platform built for scalability. It is interoperable with the layer-1 Stellar blockchain and benefits from the network’s existing global reach and access. With Soroban, developers have the freedom to create applications as borderless as the internet.
Learning how to build Decentralized Applications (DAPPs) using Soroban is easy and fun. Simply follow along with the DAPPs on Soroban challenge by forking either of the Crowdfund or Payment repositories, and make the project your own with personalized customizations! The challenge link even has some simple walk-throughs available to help you get started.
Remember to customize your DAPP using Soroban this weekend for a chance to win a Power Bank for you and each of your teammates!
Devpost Achievements
Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:
Judges
Chelsea Amihere
Denys Krasnikov
Ariana Longley
Jaime Moehlman
Judging Criteria
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Technological complexity
• How challenging was it for the team to complete in the 24-hour window? • Is the project technologically impressive? Complex? Does it seem remarkable that someone could achieve this hack in just a day or two? -
Functionality
• How functional is this hack at the time of the demo? • Completeness - has the team thought through and/or planned how to develop and launch/release their product? • Is the project realistic? -
Feasibility
• How practical and achievable is the hack idea being presented (considering the 36-hour window, technology, and other resources)? Is it scalable? -
“Wow factor”
• Impressiveness - How original is the idea? • Creativity - Has this hack been done before? Does this project make others think this is a really cool idea and question why they didn't think of it before? -
Passion
• How excited and passionate is the team about solving the problem they chose? -
Vertical Alignment
• Energy: Power a Sustainable Future • Accessibility: Opening the World • Learning: Exploring Beyond the Classroom • Healthcare: Patient Safety Technology Challenge (Sponsored) More information about the verticals is below.
Questions? Email the hackathon manager
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