Get ready for the fourth annual NextStep Hackathon! Happening from August 2nd to 4th, this weekend-long event provides you with the perfect opportunity to infuse a futuristic flair into everyday life. This year's theme: Code4Good, is a tribute to the small businesses and foundations in local communities that help shape the experiences and lifestyles of people living there. The theme tasks students to develop novel solutions that help solve a problem that someone or a specific business, entity, or department in their community is facing using technology.
HackAlphaX, the driving force behind NextStep Hacks, was founded by visionary students with a shared commitment to empower the next generation in all STEM fields. Over the past four years, we've hosted numerous impactful events, positively impacting over 1,750 students along the way. As you join us for this weekend's festivities, brace yourself for a series of exciting activities, including enlightening workshops, thrilling raffles, invaluable mentor sessions, and fantastic giveaways! Your presence enriches our community, and we extend our warmest welcome to NextStep Hacks 2024. Together, let's embark on a journey of innovation and transformation.
Note: This is a student-run hackathon by high schoolers.
Requirements
Theme Statement
Our communities are surrounded by small businesses and organizations that help uplift and enhance the environment we are in. Yet many small business owners and community organizations, regardless of the industry they are a part of, face many challenges. These challenges range anywhere from not having a sustainable website that helps them manage their operations, to looking for new software to simplify their day-to-day procedures. This year's theme, Code4Good, challenges participants to think critically about specific problems that someone in their community or a small business is facing and masterfully develops a solution that targets that issue. We encourage participants to reach out to the business after the hackathon period to provide them with your solution. Not only are you gaining invaluable coding experience, but also helping the community around you for the better.
Submission
All submissions are required to have:
- A video demonstration / pitch no longer than 5 minutes.
- A link to the repository or code for viewing.
- A link (if applicable) to the live website or application.
- We do allow you to submit your project to other hackathons (this weekend only) as long as the other hackathon also allows this.
- If you're continuing work on an old project, you MUST specify in your Devpost what was worked on 1) before the hackathon and 2) during the hackathon.
Prizes
1st Place
1 year long subscriptions to NordVPN, NordPass, Incogni
Wolfram|One Professional Edition 1 year subscription
Full coding interview prep course for 1 week
2nd Place
One year subscription license to Axure RP Team
Full coding interview prep course for 1 week
Wolfram|One Professional Edition 1 year subscription
3rd Place
Full coding interview prep course for 1 week
Wolfram|One Professional Edition 1 year subscription
$25 Gift Cards to AOPS
Participation Prize
Wolfram|One Access for 30 days
1-month FREE access to Echo3D’s Pro tier
Free .xyz domain
Free access to Flatlogic
Public Favorite
Desmos Store $45 Gift Card
Full coding interview prep course for 1 week
Wolfram|One Professional Edition 1 year subscription
Raffle Giveaway
Full coding interview prep course for 1 week
Discord Nitro 1 Month
Devpost Achievements
Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:
Judges
Aditya Kirubakaran
Founder & Executive Director @ HackAlphaX
Rahul Vishwakarma
Senior Member @ IEEE
Aman Gupta
Senior Software Developer @ Amazon
Artem Holinka
Senior Frontend Developer @ Jiji
Sai Vittal Battula
SoC Logic Design Engineer @ Intel
Sanjana Kandi
Senior System Software Engineer @ NVIDIA
Pradeep Kumar Chenchala
Software Developer @ Amazon
Shrey Dharmendra Modi
SDE @ Teladoc Health, Startup Founder
Rachita Naik
Machine Learning Engineer @ Lyft
Harsh Daiya
Staff Software Engineer @ Paypal, Fintech Advisor
Amit Srivastava
Sr Architect @ United Health Group
Dheerendra Panwar
Senior Member @ IEEE
Akhil Mittal
Expert in Cybersecurity @ Synopsys
Shaili Gandhi
Software Engineer @ Amazon
Abdul Sajid Mohammed
Senior Engineer @ Microsoft
Weining (Maggie) Qian
Product Manager - Technical @ TikTok
Letian Xu
Software Engineer @ Google
Kaustubh Prabhakar
ML @ X (Twitter) | Prev SWE @ Apple, Snap
Judging Criteria
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Originality
Has this project been done before at hackathons in the past? How creative is their project in solving the problem at hand? -
Adherence to Track
Does the hack adhere to "Code4Good"? Does it implement this theme fully or just partially? -
Completion
Does the hack work? Did the team achieve everything they wanted? -
Learning
Did the team stretch themselves? Did they try to learn something new? What kind of projects have they worked on before? -
Design
Did the team put thought into the user experience? How well designed is the interface? -
Technology
How technically impressive was the hack? Was the technical problem the team tackled difficult? Did it use a particularly clever technique or did it use many different components? Did the technology involved make you go "wow"?
Questions? Email the hackathon manager
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