This two-day event will provide all of the support needed for teams to hack out a real-world solution to a real-world challenge. Don’t worry, we’re not going to be illegally accessing Government or Corporate databases. A hackathon is an invention marathon. Programmers, designers, builders and more come together to learn, build, and share their creations over the course of a few days. “Hacking” is a term which is used to describe the act of quickly and intelligently creating a real application/solution that others can use.

Requirements

Indentify a Problem

Spend some to create your team’s “problem statement” what is the question that your hack will solve or answer.  The problem statement should center on health care/biopharma, energy efficiency or human services.  These areas have a huge potential for growth, are in need of real world solutions during this time of expansion, and are primed for disruption, particularly by tomorrow’s leaders.

 

Develop your hack

The bulk of your team time should be spent researching, developing, and completing a presentation for your hack.  Hacking is creative problem solving. (It does not have to be about technology.)  

  • Each group should vote and select a project lead.  The project leader’s role should be to coordinate, ensuring each team member has something to work on and helping to welcome new team members.
  • Projects should be answer to the “problem statement” outlined in Task #3 and provide a reasonably specific proposed solution.
  • Your hack should include ready-to-go tasks for participants who have a different skill levels.

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Prizes

6 non-cash prizes
1st Place Medal (Devil Hack)
8 winners

2nd Place Medal (Devil Hack)
8 winners

3rd Place Medal (Devil Hack)
8 winners

#HackHarassment
1 winner

Use your tech skills for good and hack online harassment! Build a software solution that can help reduce the frequency and/or severity of online harassment. Members of the winning team receive Hack Harassment Battery Packs!

Best Domain Name from Domain.com
1 winner

Domain.com Swag Bags

Amazon Web Services - Best Use of AWS
1 winner

1 TB Hard Drives

Devpost Achievements

Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:

Judges

Kristina Kovarik

Kristina Kovarik
Mayore

Dean Thorson

Dean Thorson
Republic Wireless

Chris Fries

Chris Fries
Motorola Mobility

Priya Raman

Priya Raman
Akahn SemiConductors

Judging Criteria

  • 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? Did the technology involved make you go "Wow"?
  • Design
    Did the team put thought into the user experience? How well designed is the interface? For a website, this might be about how beautiful the CSS or graphics are. For a hardware project, it might be more about how good the human-computer interaction.
  • Learning
    Did the team stretch themselves? Did they try to learn something new? What kind of projects have they worked on before? New team exploration should be rewarded.
  • Completion
    Does the hack work? Did the team achieve everything they wanted?

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