- We bring together hundreds of high school students from across the Bay Area to work together and make their ideas a reality. All high schoolers are welcome, and no coding experience is required; there's a place for everyone at our hackathon!

- We'll provide the food, refreshments and hacking spaces for you—the hackers—to do your magic. Just bring your ideas and your passion!

- Los Altos Hacks VIII will take place at the Juniper Aspiration Dome in Sunnyvale, California on April 6-7, 2024.

- As always, Los Altos Hacks will be 100% free, including prizes, meals, swag, mentorship, and much more!

- For more information and to sign up, visit https://losaltoshacks.com. See you on April 6-7th!

Requirements

What to Build:

Anything!

You Must:

Select which sponsor prize(s) you are applying for

Specify if anyone on your team is a beginner

Hackathon Sponsors

Prizes

$4,134 in prizes
1st Place
1 winner

3D Printer for each team member

2nd Place
1 winner

NuPhy Air75 V2 Wireless Keyboard for all team members

3rd Place
1 winner

Ultimate Ears Wonderboom 3 for each team member

Most Technically Complex
1 winner

Fifine Ampligame A8 microphone for each team member

Best Beginner Hack
1 winner

Arduino starter kit for each team member

Best UI/UX
1 winner

Wacom Intuos Drawing Tablet for each team member

Best Mobile Hack
1 winner

1 year Apple Developer license

Best Solo Hack
1 winner

Playdate retro handheld console

Best Fun Hack
1 winner

Giant stuffed teddy bear for each team member

Best use of MongoDB Atlas
1 winner

M5GO IoT Starter Kit
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 all of your data, and you can get a headstart with free resources from MongoDB University! Build a hack using MongoDB Atlas for a chance to win a M5GO IoT Starter Kit for you and each member of your team.

Best Domain Name from GoDaddy Registry
1 winner

Hack from Home Kit
GoDaddy Registry is giving you everything you need to be the best hacker no matter where you are. Register your domain name with GoDaddy Registry for a chance to win a Hack from Home Kit! Each Kit contains wireless earbuds, blue light glasses, selfie ring light and a pouch for easy transport.

Best DEI (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion) Hack sponsored by Fidelity
1 winner

Fidelity Branded Wireless Charger
At Fidelity, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion are viewed as major keys to the success of their business, which is why they are challenging you to come up with innovative ways to create forward-thinking financial tech that promotes equality for all people! We want you to use your hacking skills to find and build solutions that put financial opportunities and resources within reach for all communities, creating accessible, sustainable, and/or inclusive solutions. The team with the best hack will win a Fidelity branded wireless charger for each team member!

Best use of Starknet
1 winner

Starknet Care Package for Coders
Starknet is redefining the very notion of Web3 by tackling one of the most intimidating technical challenges in the industry - scaling a blockchain while maintaining its security and decentralization.

Starknet was the first general purpose ZK-Rollup service on Ethereum in Feb. 2022, and has proved its potential to be a market leader. Essentially, it increases the processing speed, while reducing the cost of operating on the Ethereum blockchain.

As a result, we are seeing a variety of “traditional” tech businesses - payments / social media / AI / online gaming - now being integrated with blockchains using our technology.

Most Creative Adobe Express Add-On
1 winner

Wacom Wireless Drawing Tablet & JBL Go3 Speaker
Adobe Express is an AI-first, all-in-one content creation app that makes it fast, easy and fun to design and share videos, images, PDFs, flyers, TikToks, logos and more. Best of all, it’s free to get started.

Add-ons in Adobe Express are simply extensions and integrations that are built upon very powerful APIs. These APIs provide access to the user’s document, connections to third-party tools, and so much more. You can extend the functionality of Adobe Express using add-ons to unlock new capabilities and workflows. Check out these add-ons to see what other cool ideas developers have implemented!

For this hackathon, we want you to build a creative add-on for Adobe Express. Users are looking for add-ons that involve assets like stickers or icons, work with presentations and data visualization, and work in roles like marketing and e-commerce. Build an Adobe Express add-on this weekend for a chance to win a Wacom Wireless Drawing Tablet and JBL Go3 Speaker for you and each member of your team!

*You can also submit to this prize category if you have a prototype idea for an add-on or have a partially completed add-on. As long as you’ve built with Adobe Express, we want to see your hack!

RapidAPI Innovation Award
1 winner

A 200$ coupon for commission free API publication (good for a year)

Devpost Achievements

Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:

Judges

Assaf Barnir

Assaf Barnir
Sr. Director Customer/Developers Success at RapidAPI

Dylan Hwang

Dylan Hwang
Software Engineer

Sai Ramamoorthy

Sai Ramamoorthy
Vice President of Engineering at Juniper Networks

Akhila Kosaraju

Akhila Kosaraju
Co-founder of What If Design

Jung Lee

Jung Lee
Technical Director at Immerse

Ragini Prasad

Ragini Prasad
Software Development Manager at Amazon

Siddhant Raman

Siddhant Raman
Software Engineer

Judging Criteria

  • Originality
    Is the hack more than just another generic chatGPT wrapper? Does it do something entirely novel, or at least take a fresh approach to an old problem?
  • Technical Difficulty
    Is the hack technically interesting or difficult? Is it just some lipstick on an API, or were there real technical challenges to surmount?
  • Polish
    Is the hack usable in its current state? Is the user experience smooth? Does everything appear to work? Is it well designed?
  • Real World Impact
    Is the hack practical? Is it something people would actually use? Does it fulfill a real need people have?

Questions? Email the hackathon manager

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