The top team from each track will compete against each other. The overall winning team will receive $500 for the entire team, as well as passes to Vancouver Startup Week.

The other top teams in their respective tracks will receive $200 and as well as passes to Vancouver Startup Week for the entire team.

Cohere helps developers generate or analyze text to do things like write and summarize copy, moderate content, classify data and more, all at a massive scale. No matter your level of experience, Cohere's API makes it easy to build machine learning and state-of-the-art language AI into your application.

1st Prize: $300 cash prize, per team member (for a max of 4 team members), $4000 Cohere Credits for the winning team (to be shared amongst team), Cohere-branded swag kit per team member
2nd Place: $100 cash prize, per team member (for a max of 4 team members), $3000 credits (to be shared amongst team)
3rd Place: $2,000 credits (to be shared amongst team)
Honorable mentions: up to 3 teams, $1,000 credits (among teams)

CSE is looking for a project that incorporates cyber security in the most creative way!

Prize: $50 Amazon gift card for each member of the winning team (max of 4 gift cards for a total of $200)

Show us your take on cybersecurity! Build a creative security-focused hackathon project that keeps simplicity and usability at its core. To go the extra mile, play around with authentication and/or passkeys with Passage. Submit your project for a chance to win a $100 CAD Best Buy gift card, 1 free year of 1Password, and a recruiter coffee chat!

One of GeoComply’s core values is to ensure that our technology, intelligence, and time are focused on making a positive impact in all our communities. The prize will be awarded to the group that creates an application or tool that helps promote #forthegreatergood in a local, global, or online community and demonstrates a commitment to use technology to make the world a better place.

1 team will receive swag bags with a Lululemon backpack, water bottle, t-shirt, sticky notes, pens and stickers for each team member.

At Redbrick, we support thousands of digital entrepreneurs with the tools needed to help their business thrive. We keep our “D.R.I.V.E” (Diversity, Reconciliation, Inclusion, Visibility and Equity) program principles at the forefront of everything we do. This
includes the design and development of our products and software.

Accessibility is a key factor that needs consideration at every step of tech development. From simple things like keyboard navigability, to correct color contrast in designs, all the way to zoom and magnification tools, it’s important to give our users the power of our software in a
way that works for them.

Inclusive Design is another concept that heavily influences the work we do at Redbrick. Keeping our D.R.I.V.E program close to heart, we know that building software means building for everyone and in an equitable way. We’re excited to bring these principles to cmd-f and help inspire the next generation of tech creators.

Each member will receive a prize pack with a $150 gift card to Patagonia, Redbrick branded Lululemon belt bag ($75 value), Redbrick swag and other goodies. PLUS a guaranteed coffee chat with our head of recruitment!

Read more about Redbrick’s sponsored prize, including the qualification criteria and rubric in the cmd-f prize guide: http://tinyurl.com/cmd-f-redbrick-sponsor-prize

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.

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.

MATLAB and Simulink are computational tools used at over 100,000 businesses, government and university sites in over 190 countries. Use MATLAB and/or Simulink exclusively or integrate them into another tool for your next hack to win an exclusive MathWorks branded Wireless YoYo Speaker! You can also claim a free MATLAB software license to get started.

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!

TinyMCE is a rich-text editor that allows you to create formatted content within a hacker-friendly interface. Adding a Rich Text Editor component has never been easier! Alongside functionality like bold, italics, underlines, hyperlinks, or titles (to name a few), the editor also allows users to enable HTML tags, MarkDown or CSS. TinyMCE even gives you the ability to edit your text elements directly with no code, similar to the way you would edit a word document but with even more practical hackathon use cases.

TinyMCE also has dozens of plugins that allow developers to customize their user’s experience. From implementing accessibility checkers, autocorrect, and enhanced image editing to utilizing emoticons, adding responsive design with auto resize and even a ChatGPT AI Assistant. If your hackathon project accepts ANY type of text input, you can use TinyMCE to take it to the next level.

Signup for TinyMCE for a free trial and get started today, no credit card required! To qualify for the Best Use of TinyMCE prize category, be sure to render the editor with a Tiny Cloud account for a chance to win a 3D Printing Pen for you and each of your team members!

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!

If you are interested in further developing your project idea, UBC's CS department will be selecting a team a limited number of teams they think will benefit from mentorship to continue working on their project. The team will continue their hackathon project during this incubation program with the guidance of industry mentors. The program is only available to UBC students. The CS department will also offer prizes and awards to those teams who manage to bring their ideas to fruition! The selection to participate in the Diversity in CS Project Hub will be the prize.  There will be no further ‘winners’.  Make sure to opt-in to this prize category if your team would like to continue working on your project post-hackathon!

Challenge: Write 3-5 sentences in your Devpost under a heading (Why we want to continue working on our project!) explaining why your team is interested in the incubation program and further developing your idea.

Prize: Mentorship from industry professionals to continue working on your hackathon project and potential to win prizes/awards if your project idea comes to fruition!

Eligibility: Note that the majority of your team must be current or prospective UBC CS students. You will also need to be available for the whole summer at least 3 months between May 1 and August 31, 2024 to continue working on your project.