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1st Place: $1,250 (split among the team) & MLH Winner Pins
2nd Place: $750 (split among the team) & MLH Winner Pins
3rd Place: $500 (split among the team) & MLH Winner Pins

Prize:
- JBL Tune 770NC - Adaptive Noise Cancelling with Smart Ambient Wireless Over-Ear Headphones

Prize:
- Anker Power Bank, 20,000mAh Travel Essential Portable Charger with Built-in USB-C Cable
- Owala FreeSip Insulated Stainless Steel Water Bottle with Straw, 24oz

Prize:
- LEGO Super Mario Game Boy

Prize:
- Bluetooth Mini Projector

This is your chance to change the game in fintech. Whether it's an innovative payment solution, helping consumers shop smarter, making financing more accessible, or a creative way to improve financial literacy, we want to see your boldest ideas in action. The challenge is intentionally vague to let you bring your own creativity to it!

You can optionally take advantage of Capital One’s Hackathon API, Nessie ([api.nessieisreal.com](http://api.nessieisreal.com/)). It provides mock banking/transaction data to help spearhead your idea.

Prize:
- $250 per team member

- Design an AI Orchestrator that can:
1. Process messy, multi-channel inputs - think emails, texts, client portal messages, or call transcripts
2. Identify whether there’s an actionable next step for the legal team.
3. Route the task to the right AI Specialist with the skills to handle it
- Your AI Specialist Team could include:
- Client Communication Guru: drafts compassionate, professional updates to clients
- Records Wrangler: organizes medical records, bills, and authorizations.
- Voice Bot Scheduler: calls everyone involved to lock down mediation or deposition dates (bonus if it can sound friendly before coffee)
- Legal Research Pro: finds supporting case law or prior verdicts in seconds
- Evidence Analyzer: pots missing documents or key facts buried in attachments.
- Each Specialist should:
- Return clear, actionable recommendations.
- Present them through a “swipe right to accept/swipe left to pass” interface or logic flow.
- Learn from human feedback to improve task routing and output.
- Bonus Points for:
- A clean, app-like UX that makes decision-making fast and intuitive.
- Thoughtful orchestration logic between the AI “case team” and the Orchestrator.
- Real-world utility that could actually make life easier for a high-volume consumer law firm like Morgan & Morgan.
- The Goal
- Build the next evolution of case management for real people—where AI helps lawyers fight smarter, move faster, and everyone can finally swipe right on justice.

Prizes:
- 1st Place: $1000 (split between team)
- 2nd Place: $500 (split between team)
- 3rd Place: $250 (split between team)

To qualify, 50% of a team must be a first time hackers (submitting a project at a hackathon for the first time)!

Prize:
- LEGO Botanicals Happy Plants

Awarded to the project that makes the **most effective and meaningful use of hardware components**. This can include sensors, microcontrollers, wearables, IoT devices, or custom electronics. Judges will look for thoughtful integration where hardware enhances functionality.

Prize:
- Rasberry Pi 5 4GB

Focused on the **artistic and expressive aspects** of a project. This category highlights strong visual design, storytelling, animation, audio, or interactive media. Projects may emphasize creativity, aesthetics, or emotional impact over technical depth.

Prize:
- Wacom Drawing Pad

This award recognizes projects with **exceptional user experience (UX) and interface design (UI)**. Judges will evaluate ease of use, clarity, accessibility, intuitiveness, and overall user-friendliness. Designs that consider diverse users and accessibility needs will stand out.

Prize:
- Mechanical Keyboard

Build an AI-powered application using the Google Gemini API. Projects should demonstrate meaningful use of Gemini’s language, reasoning, or content-generation capabilities to create a compelling AI-driven experience.

Prize: - Google Swag Kits

Build fast, scalable applications using Solana’s low-latency, low-cost blockchain. Projects may include games, financial tools, or consumer applications that rely on high-throughput or real-time transactions. Prize: - Ledger Nano S Plus

Use DigitalOcean’s cloud services (Droplets, Managed Databases, App Platform, or Gradient™ AI) to deploy, scale, or support your application. Projects should demonstrate thoughtful use of cloud infrastructure. Prize: - Retro Wireless Mouse

Integrate natural, expressive AI-generated audio using ElevenLabs. Voice should meaningfully enhance the project’s functionality, experience, or interactivity. Prize: - Wireless Earbuds

Build data-driven or AI-powered features using Snowflake APIs. Projects may include analytics tools, AI-enabled applications, or systems that leverage Snowflake’s data and AI capabilities. Prize: - Arduino Tiny ML Kit

Use MongoDB Atlas as your primary database solution. Projects should demonstrate effective data modeling, storage, and integration within the application. Prize: - M5GO IoT Starter Kit

The goal of this challenge is to reward teams that use GitHub like a real engineering team — focusing on collaboration, planning, and delivery, not just a last-minute code dump.

Your project must include:
• A public GitHub repository
• A clear README.md with:
• Project description
• How to run / install
• Demo link (video or live)
• At least 10 commits total across the team
• At least 3 pull requests
• Minimum 1 PR reviewed by a teammate
• Use of GitHub Issues
• At least 5 issues
• Issues must be assigned
• A GitHub Release or version tag (e.g. v1.0.0)

Extra credit for using:
• GitHub Projects (Kanban / board)
• GitHub Actions (CI, tests, linting, builds, etc.)
• Branch protection or required reviews
• Conventional commits and/or a changelog
• Clear commit messages and PR descriptions

Prize -Mona plushie, Mona figurine, Two GitHub shirts

Awarded to the project that demonstrates strong engineering fundamentals through thoughtful product functionality and clean, maintainable code. This challenge celebrates clarity, reliability, and intentional engineering over hype or flash. -Prize: 1 Apple Magic Mouse and keyboard.