Dates

11/16/2024 - 11/17/2024

Eligibility

- Above the Legal age of majority in country of residence

- Santa Clara University Students

- Team Required: 2 to 6 members

- US Only

Gen AI/Use of AI Disclosure

Dos:

• Help you brainstorm
• Solve Specific Issues
  • Debugging
  • Explaining errors you don’t understand
• Use it like stack overflow
  • Treat GenAI like a thought buddy
• Help you understand how people implement thing

Donts:

• Writing Large amounts of code
  • Ex: make me a template for X
  • Once again use it with a specific purpose to help you debug issues but it should NEVER be told to write code

Judging Criteria and Winner Selection

• Technology
  How technically impressive was the hack? Was the technical problem the team tackled difficult? Did it use a particularly clever technique or did it use many different components? Is it a scalable design/solution?
• Polish
  Did the team put thought into the user experience? For a website, this might be about how beautiful the CSS or graphics are. For a hardware project, it might be about how good the human-computer interaction is.
• Innovativeness
  Does the hack show the team thought “outside of the box”? Does it have a certain “wow factor” to it? Is it different compared to previous solutions?
• Use of AWS Tech
• Did the project use AWS technologies in their project? Did they sit down and really learn the technologies available to them?
• Project Completeness
  Is there a demo of the product’s functionality? Can major user action flows be completed without significant obstacles? Could the project be productized and sold? Is there a business plan that explains who woud consume this product, and how it would benefit them?