About the challenge

although empowHER hacks is only one weekend long, it is filled with workshops, panels, talented judges with an impressive network to the brim! This weekend is all about innovation, connecting with other passion-driven hackers, and building technical skill. As the organizing team at Empowering AI, our greatest passion is to bring free resources to people furthering the tech industry access to women, so please take advantage of the many free resources, panels, workshops, and opportunities we will be providing! Although we aim empowHER hacks to mainly target women and aspiring girls in tech, anyone is elligible to join as long as they are passionate about the same goal of expanding the tech industry to women; keep this in mind as the theme gets revealed!

Get started

JOIN DISCORD ASAP!!! -- This is ESSENTIAL! Everything from the opening/closing ceremony, workshops, panels, networking opportunities, and announcements will be taking place virtually through THIS DISCORD!! Join!!

FOLLOW OUR INSTAGRAM -- Want to be famous?  Get featured on our social media platforms and see your projects, work, paricipation, etc. get publicized on our social media! P.S. -- looking for whichever team can create the most creative/funny reel/tiktok, so be sure to keep us updated on discord!

Requirements

What to Build

Website, app, game, or any other platform of code! If you have any ideas you are unsure of, feel free to drop a message to any of the people with the "moderator" role in discord!

What to Submit

Link to project & description of how it fits the theme/what it's about. Optional: a demo video of the project to make its purpose & usability more clear.

Hackathon Sponsors

Prizes

$23,206 in prizes
1st Place
1 winner

Gaming Keyboard will be shipped to the winner. Details: NEWMEN GM326 Wired Gaming Keyboard.

2nd Place
1 winner

2nd place project receives a Portable Wireless Bluetooth Speaker shipped to their location. Each team member gets one bluetooth speaker!

3rd Place
1 winner

The third place winning project will receive a seal plushy shipped to them. Find more details here: https://www.amazon.com/MerryXD-Chubby-Pillow-Stuffed-Cotton/dp/B08241CJN9

Honorable Mention
5 winners

Honorable Mentions

Access To Wolfram|One For 30 Days
200 winners

For 30 days, every participant will have access to Wolfram|One. This includes both Desktop and Cloud access, full access to the Wolfram Language and Knowledgebase, FreeCDF Deployment, 5000 Wolfram|Alpha API calls, 5000 Cloud Credits, 2 installations per user and 2 GB of Cloud Storage.

The Wolfram Award
5 winners

This Wolfram Award contains a year of Wolfram|One Professional Edition and the full retail value is $1,660/year per annual subscription. Although students aren't required to use Wolfram tech in their project to be eligible for this award, any student who submits a project utilizing the Wolfram API is eligible for a $500 scholarship to one of our summer programs if they apply and are accepted. Those students may reach out to carolc@wolfram.com for additional details.

Gen XYZ
15 winners

15 .xyz domains free for 1 year ($10 per)

Interview Cakes Membership
50 winners

Win $50 value tech interview prep material for participating in workshops and placing high ranks in final judging.

Flatlogic Generator Access
200 winners

Flatlogic generator can create SAAS and business applications in a couple of minutes. You preserve advantages of custom development, and gain advantages of low-code by using Flatlogic Generator.

Devpost Achievements

Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:

Judges

Manika Kapoor

Manika Kapoor
Senior Perception Software Engineer @ NVIDIA

Aditi Godbole

Aditi Godbole
Senior Data Scientist @ SAP

Shagun Khare

Shagun Khare
Computer Science @ UIUC | SWE Intern @ William Blair

Vidya Bhardwaj

Vidya Bhardwaj
CS @ UIUC • Board @ GirlCon • Director of Education @ Encode Justice • Incoming SWE Intern @ Honeywell

Akhila Yellapragada

Akhila Yellapragada
Summer Analyst @ Morgan Stanley | CS + FinTech at University of Georgia

Judging Criteria

  • Accordance To Theme
    Does the project match the theme of empowering women in STEM/tech?
  • Creativity
    Is the project creative? Did the approach the problem/theme in a unique way that stood out to you?
  • Technological Complexity
    Is the project technologically complex? Be sure to check if the submitter is a beginner or has experience. Depending on their skill level, grade them positively or negatively.
  • Design
    Is the product presented uniquely and in a visually pleasing way?

Questions? Email the hackathon manager

Tell your friends

Hackathon sponsors

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.