On the weekend of February 20th-22nd, we're bringing together 500 of the most talented students from across the country for 36 hours of creating.
Prizes
$68,590 in prizes
Grand Prize
Zero G Experience + Admission to HackNTU for the entire winning team.
2nd Prize
Parrot AR Drone + Meta Glass + Emotiv EEG headset
3rd Prize
Parrot AR Drones
Crowd-Favorite Prize
Plane Trip to Hawaii
Best App that Would Benefit from a Gigabit network
Presented by Orange. Winning team receives a trip to Orange HQ in Paris to demo for Orange Fiber. Terms and Conditions apply (email will.barkis@orange.com for details)
Best Use of SendGrid
Presented by SendGrid. Winners will receive Mini Parrot Drones
Best Use of Facebook APIs/Parse
(2)
Presented by Facebook. Winners will receive Facebook Swag.
Best Use of IBM Bluemix or Watson
Presented by IBM. Winners will receive Arduino Boards.
Best Use of Branch Metric API
Presented by Branch metrics. Winners will receive a parrot Bebop Drone/Quadcopter, a mini Jambox, and a hoodie.
Best Use of Cyanogen Platform
Presented by Cyanogen. Winners will receive a Nexus 6.
Best Microsoft Hack
Presented by Microsoft. Winners will receive a Surface Pro 3.
Best Use of Moxtra's API/SDK
Presented by Moxtra. Winning team will receive $1000.
Best Use of Bloomberg API
Presented by Bloomberg. Winners will receive a parrot drone.
Best Finance App
Presented by Affirm. Winners will receive $200 and an Affirm Backpack.
Best Use of SmartThings
(2)
Presented by SmartThings. Winning team will receive 3 SmartThings Starter Kits
Best iOS Prize
(2)
Presented by Apple. Winners will receive iPad minis.
Best Hack built with iDrone: 1st Prize
Presented by iDrone. Winning team will receive 1 iDrone
Best Bioinformatics Hack
Presented by Illuminia. Winners will receive targeted gene sequencing.
Best Use of Emotiv
Presented by Emotiv. Winners will receive Emotiv EPOC EEG headset with SDK
Best IoT Smart City Hack
Presented by Atomiton. Winning Team will receive an Atomiton Neuron Computer
Best Pebble Hack
(2)
Presented by Pebble. Winners will receive Pebble Steel watches
Best Use of MongoDB
Presented by MongoDB. Winners will receive Amazon Gift Cards and MongoDB Swag
Best Use of Gun
Presented by Gun. Winners will receive 2 adult-size electric scooters.
Best Use of D21
Presented by D21. Winners will receive an all-expense Czech party at the city of their choice.
Best Use of Intel Hardware
Presented by Intel. Winners will receive Beats headphones
Best Use of Intel Software
Presented by Intel. Winners will receive MIP robots
Best Use of Intel Mashery API
Presented by Intel. Winner will receive 4 jumping sumo parrot drones
Best CS + English Hack
Presented by Stanford CS+X. Winning team will receive autographed copies of The Orphan Master's Son by Pulitzer Prizewinner Adam Johnson.
Best CS + History Hack
Presented by Stanford CS+X. Winning team will receive $500.
Best Social Good Hack
(2)
Winners receive $200 for DonorsChoose.
Best Use of Meta
(4)
Presented by Meta. 4 winning teams will receive Meta 1 Dev Kits + 6 months of Unity Pro Licensing.
Best Use of Vertical Response
Presented by Vertical Response. Winners will receive $100 Amazon Gift Cards + Pebble Steel Watches.
Best Local Focus
Presented by Yelp. Winners will receive Leap Motions
Best Use of DIRECTV
Presented by DIRECTV for the most innovative use of DIRECTV APIs. Winning team will receive 1 Samsung 50'' 4K UHD TV.
Best Hack as a Product or Business
Presented by Thiel Capital. Winning team will receive $1000 grant to keep working on the hack
Dropbox Engineering Prize
(3)
1st Place Winning Team receives 100GB of space each. 2nd Place Winning Team receives Circuit Scribe Kits. 3rd Place Winning Team receives a Splendor Board Game
Best Use of Capital One API
Presented by Capital One.
Devpost Achievements
Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:
Judges
Jeff Dean
Google Senior Fellow
Judging Criteria
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Technical Difficulty
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Polish
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Creativity
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