Overview

Career Launch is a “choose-your-own-adventure” project-based program. To kick off projects, students are divided into groups to decide on the area they want to focus on for three weeks. They are given the liberty to choose any area of technology and any topic of their interest to pursue during the program.”

 

Career Launch is composed of two components that are ideally completed together, but students may choose to only complete one part. Completing one part will earn you a $150 stipend. If you complete both parts, you will receive a $300 stipend. Participation can be entirely virtual.

Requirements

What to Build

  • Data analysis

  • Machine Learning/AI

  • Market Research/Strategy

  • Product Design (UX/UI)

  • Software Engineering

  • Cybersecurity

  • …and more

Students who complete the personal project and all benchmarks are eligible to receive a $150 stipend.

 

Required Benchmarks:

 

  1. Personal Project - $150 stipend, benchmarks due by January 26:

    1. Attend 80% of meetings and activities

    2. Attend and present at Project Expo

    3. Submit final project on devpost

    4. Demonstrate progress toward project deliverable by midpoint (second week of January)

    5. Meet with assigned Program Assistant weekly to:

      1. Check in

      2. Set project deliverables

      3. Review weekly progress

Hackathon Sponsors

Prizes

$12,750 in prizes
Stipend
85 winners

Devpost Achievements

Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:

Judges

Break Through Tech

Break Through Tech
Break Through Tech

Judging Criteria

  • Demo
    A short demonstration or walk through of your project

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