Name: MEGA Hackathon 2024
Start: 2024-07-27T00:00:00.000-04:00
End: 2024-07-28T23:45:00.000-04:00
Location: MEGA Hackathon 2024

MEGA is a dynamic and diverse coalition of high school and college students from around the world, attending institutions such as the University of Pennsylvania, UC Berkeley, University of Chicago, Duke University, Georgia Institute of Technology, The University of Glasgow, Rutgers Preparatory School, Milton Academy, The Hun School of Princeton, The Lawrenceville School, and many more. With a shared commitment to fostering sustainable development and promoting global welfare, MEGA is proud to announce its upcoming hackathon, MEGA Hackathon 2024, which is slated to take place online on Saturday, July 27, 2024, and Sunday, July 28, 2024. The objective of this hackathon will be to apply computer science or artificial intelligence to improve the process of education. This can be completed in the form of a business plan, game, application, or website.

The MEGA Hackathon is a unique opportunity for computer science students to showcase their skills and creativity, while also contributing to the United Nations' seventeen sustainable development goals. By infusing computer science competitions with these goals, MEGA aims to raise awareness about pressing global issues and instill passion in the next generation of computer scientists.

The MEGA's annual hackathon is an event that allows participants to collaborate and compete. This year, MEGA's hackathon will cater to a diverse range of interests and skill sets, with a variety of categories that include web development, data science, machine learning, and more.

The hackathon is open to students from all backgrounds, and there are no prerequisites for participation other than an interest in computer science and a desire to make a positive impact on the world. Participants will have the opportunity to work with mentors and industry professionals, as well as to network with other like-minded individuals from around the world.

Holistically, MEGA's annual hackathon is an exciting and impactful event that showcases the power of computer science to drive positive change in the world. We encourage all computer science students to join us for this year's event and help us make a difference!

Requirements

The objective of this hackathon will be to apply artificial intelligence, computer science, or STEM to improve the process of education. This can be completed in the form of a business plan, game, application, or website. Regardless of which form of submission you choose, please submit a presentation or video describing your final product. If you wrote any code, please submit that too (preferably through a GitHub link).

The hackathons within the past three years have been significantly successful, with participants submitting innovative projects that tackled some of the world's most pressing issues, including climate change, poverty, and inequality. You can check out the projects from the 2022 hackathon at https://mega-hack-2022-spring.devpost.com/project-gallery, and you can also see the projects from the 2023 hackathon at https://mega-hackathon-2023.devpost.com/project-gallery.

Your submission can be a general submission on this Devpost and/or a sponsorship submission (sign up for an account first and use access code "megahacks24") on http://kinetikgigs.com/. The Kinetik challenges are live right now, and they will close at the end of the hackathon.

Hackathon Sponsors

Prizes

$7,324 in prizes

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100 winners

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GitHub (Submission) Prize

200 winners

You will be given a custom Vaunt badge for your GitHub account for submitting GitHub code as part of your project submission.

Judges

Ranita Ganguly
Quality Consultant at 3D Technologies LLC

Amit Kumar
Upcoming SDE-1 at MAQ Software

Manish Deepak Chugani
Computer Science Student (recently graduated) from UC Riverside

Aditi Singh
Student at Manipal University Jaipur

Letian Xu
Software Engineer at Google

Panta Sasikanth
AI and ML Researcher at Space Aura

Maxime Defauw
Forward Deployed Software Engineer at Palantir

Aditya Kushwaha
Risk Management Consultant at Auronova Consulting

Koushik Sundar
Vice President at Citibank

Edward Liu
Machine Learning Engineer at Bridgewater Associates

Ashwin Chembu
Business Technology Solutions Associate Intern at ZS

Gaurav Mittal
Data Science Manager IT at ThermoFisher Scientific

Hao Dong
Machine Learning Engineer at Meta

Maggie Qian
Product Manager at TikTok

Vidyasagar Ranganaboina
CTO at Agentive

Amit Srivastava
Senior Architect at OptumServe (United Health Group)

Sameet Sonawane
Data Scientist III at Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions

Omkar Ashok Bhalekar
Senior Network Engineer at Tesla

Sijie Jiang
Software Engineer at Microsoft

Judging Criteria

Innovation
Max Score 5 - Is this idea new? - Will this project make an impact in education?
Technicality
Max Score 5 - Use of APIs, programs, and code in the project (if code was used) - How well was the idea implemented? (if code was used) - Is this concept possible to implement in the real world?
Presentation
Max Score 5 - Is the information organized? - Is the concept understandable?

Questions? Email the hackathon manager