Hack the VII Seas!
Let your ideas run wild and join us for 24 hours of building, breaking, and testing apps and hardware at HackUTD! Whether you're a seasoned hacker or just getting started, we'd love to see where your creativity takes you.
Eligibility
Directors, Organizers, Volunteers, Mentors, Sponsors, Vendors, and anyone affiliated with operations behind HackUTD are NOT eligible to submit a project.
All projects must be started at HackUTD. Prior ideas are fine, but no pre-existing projects.
Maximum Team Size of 4 for prizes
All Team members must be added to the Devpost submission
Must be submitted before 11am on Feb 28th
Requirements
Every Sponsor prize a hacker wants to be judged on must be tagged in the devpost submission.
Prizes
General Hackathon
1. Frameless 1440p 144Hz 1ms IPS Gaming monitor
2. Sony WH-1000XM3 Noise Cancelling Headphones
3. Polaroid Camera
MLH Best Domain Registered
Prize: PowerSquare Qi Wireless Phone Charger & Domain.com Backpack
MLH Best use of Google Cloud
PRIZE: Google Branded Parkland Academy Backpack
Google Cloud Swag Bag or Backpack
MLH Best Hardware Hack Sponsored by Digi-Key
PRIZE: Grove Beginner Kit
MLH Best Use of CockroachDB
PRIZE: 3D printing pen
Statefarm
1. Oculus Quest
2. Nintendo Switch Lite
3. Raspberry Pi 4
eBay
3 Categories
$200 eBay gift card for each winning member
UTD Student Government Challenge
Only UTD Participants can participate
1. Nintendo Switch(the acutal one with joycons)
2. Megaboom 3 Speaker
UTD Office of Sustainability
Only UTD Participants can participate
1. Ipad Eight Gen + Apple Pen
2. Solar Power Charger
Capital One: Best Financial Hack
Prize: $250 for each member of the winning team
SignaPay
Prize: Shortlist for internship interviews and networking opportunities
Devpost Achievements
Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:
Judges
Chander Dhall
CEO of Cazton
Rajesh Nagarajan
VP of IT at The Mosaic Company
Arjun Degul
CTO of Capital One
Spencer Whitney
Technology Director at Statefarm
Sanyam Satia
Tech lead for the Data Infrastructure team at Robinhood
Jorge Hinojosa
Software Engineer at Match.com
Vu Nguyen
Software Engineer at Match.com
John Cole
CS Professor at UTD
Gopal Gupta
CS Professor at UTD
Chida Anjum
CS Professor at UTD
Chung Hwan Kim
CS Professor at UTD
Klyne Smith
CS Professor at UTD
Maria Dunning
Former Director of HackUTD
Shareem Bahadur
Sid Devic
Eduardo Herida
Hasini Sunderasan
Sumyia Islam
Rupika Dikkala
Shreyans Khunteta
Eduardo Robles
Maggie Tija
Valerie Marks
Arleigh Atkinson
Sonia Camacho
Chelsea Anlin Li
Nikita Vasilev
Judging Criteria
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Gavel
For general judging, present your project to the judge for 3-5 minutes about your app, how you built it, your challenges, and a demo
Questions? Email the hackathon manager
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