Join us for Virginia Tech's 11th annual hackathon! Live updates and information about the event on the day-of can be found on our live site or in our Discord
Requirements
- The judging phase starts on Sunday, September 17th at 10:30 AM EST and ends at 12:30 PM EST. You will be given a schedule for when your presentations will be; the more prize categories you opt-into, the more presentations you'll give. You'll have 3 minutes to present your project to judges.
- If you have questions about how to submit to Devpost, drop a question in the Discord #ask-an-organizer channel.
- Remember that you are only allowed to submit projects made during VTHacks 11 (and not at other events, multiple submission is grounds for disqualification).
Submission Rules FAQ:
Accept submission to multiple events? No Able to work on an old project? No Does every member on Devpost need to be registered for the hackathon? Yes Are hackers allowed to work on multiple teams (across 1 event or multiple)/submitting multiple projects? No Public repositories for our code required (GitHub, Dropbox, Google Drive, etc.)? Yes What type of project is accepted? Code required or is a concept (Figma, Powerpoint) acceptable? Code required
Prizes
VTHacks: 1st Place Overall
Choice of M2 Macbook Air (13") or Dell XPS 13 for each member of the team
VTHacks: 2nd Place Overall
Apple iPad Air for each member of the team
VTHacks: 3rd Place Overall
Acer Nitro 31.5" Curved FHD Monitor for each member of the team
VTHacks: Best Hack Supporting DEI
Pioneer 43" UHD Smart Fire TV for each member of the team
VTHacks: Best Hack Supporting Ut Prosim
Bose QuietComfort 45 Headphones for each member of the team
VTHacks: Best First Time Hack
Apple Watch SE for each member of the team
VTHacks: Best Hardware Hack
Keychron K12 Keyboard for each member of the team
VTHacks: Best UI/UX Hack
Echo Dot (5th gen) for each member of the team
VTHacks: Most Original Hack
Anker Soundcore 2 BT speaker for each member of the team
VTHacks: Best Hack That Didn't Work
Apple Airtag for each member of the team -- note that if you opt-in for this category, you will not be eligible for other VTHacks prizes.
CoStar Group: Best Hack Utilizing Real Estate Data
Apple Airpods for each member of the team
Peraton: Best Hack Featuring Automated Data Workflows
$100 amazon gift card and Peraton backpack full of swag for each member of the team
American Systems: AI for Social Good: Empowering Communities – Develop an AI-powered solution that addresses a specific social challenge, such as healthcare accessibility, education equity, environmental conservation, or disaster response
gift basket of: iPads, $25 Chipotle Gift Card, coding mug, circuit board sockers, and dust cleaner
RSM: Security in Smart Spaces: How to make smart devices more secure, creative uses for smart device security, IOT integration
$50 Amazon gift card and choice of RSM merchandise for each member of the team
Capital One: Best Financial Hack
$250 Amazon gift card for each member of the team
JB Hunt: Best RESTful Application using SpringBoot
1x Ender 3 Neo 3D Printer, 1x Set of AirPod Pros (2nd Gen), 1x Logitech MX Master Peripherals Set (MX Mechanical + MX Master 3S), 1x Razer Streaming Pack (Stream Controller X (Deck), Seiren V2X (Mic), Kyio (Cam))
Cipher Tech Solutions: Best Digital Forensics Hack
CipherTech swag bag (Yeti water bottle, Nike hat, more) for each member of the team
MLH: Stellar - Best Use of Soroban
Anker 337 Power Bank for each member of the team
Soroban is an open-source Rust-based developer-friendly smart contracts platform built for scalability. It is interoperable with the layer-1 Stellar blockchain and benefits from the network’s existing global reach and access. With Soroban, developers have the freedom to create applications as borderless as the internet.
Learning how to build Decentralized Applications (DAPPs) using Soroban is easy and fun. Simply follow along with the DAPPs on Soroban challenge by forking either of the Crowdfund or Payment repositories, and make the project your own with personalized customizations to the smart contracts and UI! The challenge link even has some simple walk-throughs available to help you get started.
Remember to customize your DAPP using Soroban this weekend for a chance to win an Anker 337 Power Bank for you and each of your teammates!
MLH: MongoDB - Best Use of MongoDB Atlas
M5G0 IoT Starter Kit for each member of the team
MongoDB Atlas takes the leading modern database and makes it accessible in the cloud! Get started with a $50 credit for students or sign up for the Atlas free forever tier (no credit card required). Along with a suite of services and functionalities, you'll have everything you need to manage.
MLH: GitHub - Most Creative Use of GitHub
GitHub Octocat Puzzle & Sticker bundle for each member of the team
GitHub is one of the best ways to collaborate, push code, get feedback, and show the world what you’ve built during a hackathon. To take it a step further, GitHub is now offering you access to industry tools, events & learning resources through something called GitHub Global Campus. Win this weekend’s Most Creative Use of GitHub prize category, first by signing up for GitHub Global Campus and second by using a GitHub repository to host your hackathon project’s code! Make sure your use of GitHub stands out with a detailed ReadMe page, meaningful pull requests and collaboration history, and even a GitHub pages deployment!
MLH: Auth0 - Best Use of Auth0
Rocketbook & Rubik's cube for each member of the team
Auth0 wants your applications to be secure! Use any of the Auth0 APIs for a chance to win some exclusive swag, including nan Auth0 branded Rocketbook and Rubiks Cube! Why spend hours building features like social sign-in, Multi-Factor Authentication, and passwordless log-in when you can enable them through Auth0 straight out of the box? Save some time on your hack and set yourself up for a big win. It doesn't take much to get started. Auth0 is free to try, no credit card required, with up to 7,000 free active users and unlimited log-ins. Make your new account today!
MLH: Streamlit - Best Use of Streamlit
Pimoroni PicoSystem Handheld Programmable Gaming System for each member of the team
Want to take your Python skills to the next level? Streamlit is an open-source Python library that makes it easy to build and share custom web apps for machine learning, data science and more. Instead of writing Python scripts without a UI, you can create a beautiful web app, complete with widgets and data visualizations, and deploy it for free to the Streamlit Community Cloud. You can even build a fully functional LLM-powered app with just 25 lines of code! Hack with Streamlit this weekend for your chance to win a Pimoroni PicoSystem programmable gaming system for you and each member of your team.
MLH: Circle - Best Use of Circle
Circle Branded Hardware Wallet for each member of the team.
Building an application that accepts nearly instantaneous and low-cost global payments just became a reality! Circle is a payments infrastructure company that leverages public blockchains to frictionlessly move dollars across the internet with its digital currency USDC. If you're building a project that services users from all over the world and want to do so at the speed of the internet, then Circle has you covered. Circle’s APIs give you the tools to facilitate payments from digital storefronts to payroll transactions to remittances and other novel use cases that don't bottleneck your money the way traditional payment services can. Sign up for a developer account and start using their JavaScript, Java or Python SDKs for a chance to win a Circle Branded Hardware Wallet or you and each of your teammates!
MLH: Dapper Labs - Best Use of Flow
$100 worth of FLOW Token for each member of the team.
Flow is a public, decentralized, layer-one blockchain designed for creating limitless Web3 apps for mainstream adoption. Flow empowers hackers like you to build decentralized applications and share them with the world. Write safe and readable smart contracts with Cadence and explore the potential of composable, on-chain logic. With SDKs in multiple languages like Javascript, Go, Kotlin, Python, Swift, Unity, you can jump in and start your hack using Flow this weekend for a chance to win $100 USD worth of FLOW token for each member of your team!
Devpost Achievements
Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:
Judges
VTHacks Judges
Judging Criteria
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Technical Complexity
How challenging, complete, and impressive your project is from a software or hardware development perspective -
Originality
How novel, creative, or outside the box is your idea -
Ut Prosim
To what extent does your project effectively give back to the community and serve others -
UI/UX
How well the target audience was considered in development, and ease of use. How visually appealing the project is. -
Presentation
How well the team explained their project, it's importance, how it was made, and their professionalism/creatitivty in speaking. -
DEI
How well does your project support Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion initiatives.
Questions? Email the hackathon manager
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