MacHacks is a weekend-long event providing 36 hours for teams to create an innovative project using AI for a problem in Healthcare, Environment, or Business.               

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Requirements

Submission Guidelines

  1. Each team has to create a 5-minute video about their chosen challenge explaining their innovation and the submission deadline is due 10.00 AM EST on February 5. Your project cannot be submitted to other hackathons.
  2. There will be no live presentations and your video submitted will be counted as your final submission. 
  3. The video should be filmed in proper lighting and with clear audio making it easier for the judges to understand the video. The code must be submitted on Github.
  4. Please explain your project in a clear and concise manner. 

Challenges:

 

Healthcare AI:

AI in the healthcare industry is rapidly growing. Use AI to solve any healthcare issue such as patient waiting room optimization or anything else.

Environmental AI hack:

As our world leaders begin to address the rapid deterioration of our climate and environment, AI will be used more to help address these issues. Use AI to solve any environmental problem.

Business Solution:

From Wall Street to small businesses AI can be used to make money anywhere. Use AI to solve a problem in the business world.

Google DSC Challenge:

McMaster’s google DSC hosts information sessions, hands-on workshops, and student-community collaborative projects centred around the latest and greatest in technology, all with the support of Google and Google Developers. DSC’s challenge includes designing an AI solution that aids in addressing one of the United Nation's sustainable goals, using Google’s offered products like TensorFlow, Firebase, and Flutter. 

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Prizes

$CAD 4,600 in prizes
Best Overall Hack: Nintendo Switches
1 winner

Open to all projects, members of the best overall hack will all receive Nintendo Switches!

Best Business Hack: Airpods
1 winner

Everyone on the winning team will receive Airpods.

Best Health Hack: $200 Gift Cards
1 winner

Everyone on the winning team will receive a gift card with a total value of $200

Best Environmental Hack: Samsung Galaxy Buds
1 winner

Everyone on the winning team will receive Samsung Galaxy Buds

Google DSC Challenge
1 winner

The winners of this stream will receive an automatic entrance into the Solutions incubator program run by GDSC McMaster, and 25-dollar amazon gift cards for every member of the team.

Devpost Achievements

Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:

Judges

Jodie Lobana

Jodie Lobana

Marie Pigeyre

Marie Pigeyre

Rong Zheng

Cynthia Lokker

Cynthia Lokker

Wale Soyinka

Ratnasingham Tharmarasa

Ratnasingham Tharmarasa

Andrew Leber

Andrew Leber

Kailin Chu

Kailin Chu

Ursula Chui

Ishita Wadhwa

Sian Ford

Nicholas Jao

Graham Bohm

Judging Criteria

  • Ambition of Problem
    Scale and complexity of the problem being explored.
  • Innovation of Solution
    Scale and novelty of the technology being used, and/or the architectural approach taken.
  • Quality of Implementation
    The ability of the team to reach a conclusion about the viability of the project.
  • People Impact
    The ability of the team to reach a conclusion about the viability of the project.
  • Quality of Presentation
    The ability for the judges to clearly understand (1) what the desired functionality is, and (2) see that the functionality is behaving as expected.

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