over 1 year ago

Receiving Your Prizes

Receiving Your Awards

On your project, please private message ACES (on Devpost through your project) the emails of your full team to receive your prizes. Note that to receive your final award and get confirmed international recognition, you must accept your placement by claiming ALL prizes (e.g. claiming your Wolfram | One Membership). Claiming prizes are a short process and it is up to you afterwards whether you'd like to use it or not!

Thank you for joining us in Galaxy One this year, and we wish you the best of luck in your future endeavours. We look…

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over 1 year ago

And the winner is...

Galaxy One 2024 Winning Projects

Thank you to all participants for joining us in this year's Galaxy One Hackathon. We were very impressed by the projects submitted to this year's Galaxy One and we'd like to recognize all participants for their creativity, hard work, and innovation. Among the project submitted, we've evaluated them based on hackathon judging criterias and rules through multiple rounds of judging to decide our Top 20 Winners.

Later on, we'll be sending international awards to all winners of the hackathon, as well as prizes to be distributed accordingly to winners!

Please find the winners of this…

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over 1 year ago

Galaxy One Final Days (IMPORTANT)

Galaxy One Final Days

Join us in our Twitch Livestream to see your game get featured and played by gamers on Twitch as you await our judging results. Have fun, fill your 4 event attendance requirement, and join socials with your friends!

As Galaxy One comes to an end, we'd like to open up both the Milky Way and ACES Discord servers for any socials, debates, discussions, or networking while the LIVE stream is running. This will be your final chance to make the most out of this hackathon experience…

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over 1 year ago

Galaxy One Final Days (IMPORTANT)

Galaxy One Final Days

  • Join us in our Twitch Livestream to see your game get featured and played by gamers on Twitch as you await our judging results. Have fun, fill your 4 event attendance requirement, and join socials with your friends!

    As Galaxy One comes to an end, we'd like to open up both the Milky Way and ACES Discord servers for any socials, debates, discussions, or networking while the LIVE stream is running. This will be your final chance to make the most out of this hackathon experience…

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over 1 year ago

Submission Guidelines (IMPORTANT)

Notes for Submission

For all game submissions, include:

  • A playable / runnable format of your game (e.g., exe file, web link, link to itch.io)
  • Source code
  • 5-minute video pitching your game
  • Describing your development process through Devpost
  • For development tools inclduing arts and assets:
    • The tool / assets
    • 5-minute video pitching your tool
    • Describing your development process through Devpost
  • Submissions will take place through Devpost.
  • Ensure you and your team are signed up on Devpost and have added each other as team members to receive recognition for your work.

over 1 year ago

Galaxy One Day 14 Schedule

Galaxy One Day 14

Join us in today's event featuring the Director of Product at LinkedIn to gain career advice and how to become successful in top Fortune 500 Companies. This is your last chance to fill in your 4 event attendance requirement!

[10:00pm Eastern Time]

All Projects Must be Submitted on August 9th

While we've added a few hours of grace period, your final game/project should be submitted by 11:59pm Eastern Time. We will have no exceptions for any late submissions and you will not be…

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over 1 year ago

Final call for submissions

There are only 3 days left to complete your submission for Galaxy One: A 2024 Hackathon.

over 1 year ago

Galaxy One Day 11 Schedule

Galaxy One Day 11

Today, we'll be welcoming NVIDIA Engineer and Carnegie Mellon Alumni Sanjana Kandi to discuss the future of tech! Use this opportunity to fill in your 4 event attendance requirement.

[12:00pm Eastern Time]

[8:00pm Eastern Time]

 

over 1 year ago

Galaxy One Day 9 Schedule

Galaxy One Day 9: Ft. NEW EVENTS

For today's schedule, we're including 2 aforementioned brand new events (you won't find this on your schedule) for you to fill in your 4 event requirement!

[11:00am Eastern Time] | NEW EVENT

[2:00pm - 4:00pm Eastern Time]

[6:00pm Eastern Time] | NEW EVENT

  • Fortune 500 Careers Event with…

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over 1 year ago

Galaxy One Day 8 Schedule

Galaxy One Day 8

For today's schedule, we're including 2 events for additional career advice & in-depth technical knowledge from industry professionals!

[2:00pm Eastern Time] 

[9:00pm Eastern Time] 

over 1 year ago

We're Adding New World-Class Events

We're Adding New Events for Career Advice & World Class Tech Talks!

Use this opportunity to network with industry professionals, ask personalized questions, gain insider and technical knowledge, as well as fill your required 4 event attendance requirement.

  • August 4th, 11:00am Eastern Time: Featuring MIT Mentor and Toshiba Data Scientist Sameet Sonawane to discuss The Impact of Generative AI
  • August 4th, 6:00pm Eastern Time: Featuring Walmart and former Microsoft Product Manager Lohith Paripati to discuss Fortune 500 Career Advice
  • August 9th, 10:00pm Eastern Time: Featuring Director of Product at LinkedIn Praveen Gujar to discuss "Becoming a…

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over 1 year ago

Selling Your Game: Galaxy One Day 7 Schedule

Galaxy One Day 7

Interested in learning how to scale and sell your game? How can you develop your game into a product akin to professional game development studios? Today, we'll be welcoming product manager Zoey (Xiwen) Jin from the $1 Billion Diablo Franchise and top video game company Blizzard Enteratinment as a speaker! If you haven't already, use this event to also fill in your required 4 major event attendance to qualify for awards.

[11:00am Eastern Time]

[1:00pm Eastern…

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over 1 year ago

Galaxy One Day 5 Schedule

Galaxy One Day 5

Today, we'll be having several Q&A sessions and our first networking social! Join networking socials to meet like minded developers, expand your team, reach new potential career & partnership opportunities, or simply build up your personal connections!

[11:00am Eastern Time]

General Hackathon Q&A Session (LIVE Meeting for 2 Hours): https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81870995386

[1:00pm Eastern Time]

Social & Networking Hub: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/84007135073

[10:00pm Eastern Time]

  • Gaming Night: Join us in the ACES Discord Game Voice Chat!

over 1 year ago

Galaxy One Day 4 Schedule

Galaxy One Day 4

Today, we'll be inviting a Lecturer from Carnegie Mellon, the #1 ranked university for computer science in the world, to join us in an Edge Tech Talk. Nikunj is a former Oracle Engineer currently working as a Senior Solutions Architect at Brainchip, holding a Master's Degree in Computer Science from RIT. Make sure to use this opportunity to fill in your required 4 event milestone, or just to learn more about the future of technology while networking with leading experts!

[12:00pm Eastern Time]

  • Tech Talk: Edge AI, Quantization, and the Future of Edge Computing (MAJOR…

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over 1 year ago

Claim Your First Prize from Wolfram Research!

Claim Your First Prize from Wolfram Research!

Congratulations, Wolfram Research is providing you with a full 30 Day access to their API worth $25.00 Each. We'll be sending the quick instructions to claim this prize from advancedcurriculums.official@gmail.com; please check your emails, spam/junk file if you don't get this email from us!

Using the Wolfram API to create your game project will qualify you for a potential $500 scholarship to one of Wolfram's summer programs if you apply and are accepted. To be considered as one of the potential candidates for this scholarship by Galaxy One (we'll only connect our…

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over 1 year ago

Galaxy One Day 3 Schedule

Galaxy One Day 3

Today, we'll be having our "Breaking into FAANG" Major Event featuring former Harvard Advisor, META Product Manager, and MIT Master's Alumni Gunjan Paliwal. Use this opportunity to fill in your required 4 event milestone while learning how to get into MIT, kickstart a career at Fortune 500 tech companies such as Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix, and Google.

[12:00 pm Eastern Time]

[1:00pm Eastern Time]

  • Breaking into FAANG with an MIT Alumni (MAJOR EVENT - Fill Your 4 Event…

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over 1 year ago

Galaxy One Day 2 Schedule

Galaxy One Day 2

Thank you for a successful opening launch across all live ceremonies and cohorts! We're excited to kickoff the Galaxy One Hackathon as we enter our second day. 

[11:00am Eastern Time]

[1:00pm Eastern Time]

[2:00pm Eastern Time]

[9:00pm Eastern Time]

  • Gaming Night 2.0: Join us in the ACES Discord Gaming Voice Chat!

over 1 year ago

Galaxy One Full Schedule

Galaxy One Schedule

In case you've missed our schedule in the last email, please find the Galaxy One schedule for the next two weeks linked here:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1bYrH_NuY3kgNWYY6nY6qCMYo-o8HmPSn/view?usp=sharing

Missed the Opening Ceremony?

Important parts you'll need to know:

  • To protect you from impersonation, false submissions, and other unethical practices that may compromise your chance at landing awards, we're implementing a verification system for the hackathon! Therefore, to qualify for awards, you must join at least 4 MAJOR Events (these are color coded blue on your schedule). We hope to create a fair environment for this year's hackathon and send as many…

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over 1 year ago

Galaxy One Opening Ceremony is Today!

Join Us in Galaxy One Opening Ceremony

We're so happy to have you join us this year! Get ready to kickoff the next 2 weeks of full-time gaming, game development, LIVE events, and career development! Our opening ceremony is happening TODAY at 11:00am Eastern Time!

Joining the opening ceremony is mandatory; we'll be discussing specific details, rules, and requirements that we won't be repeating again. 

Join link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/88160714502

Full Galaxy One Schedule

We're releasing the full Galaxy One schedule for the next two weeks! To see what's up, make sure to take a look at all the events, activites,…

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over 1 year ago

TechLaunch Event by Twitter & Apple Software Engineers: Internships & Starting Your Tech Career

Learn how to Kickstart Your Tech Career, from Twitter & former Apple Software Engineer

Join us for our very first event of the Galaxy One Hackathon on Saturday, July 27th 1:00pm Eastern Time! TechLaunch by Twitter Software Engineer Kaustubh Prabhakar teaches how to kickstart your tech career, land internships, and succeed in jobs at FAANG and other top tech companies.

Kaustubh formerly worked for Apple and Snapchat; as a graduate from the University of Waterloo's highly competitive Computer Science program, he has landed over 7 internships during his undergraduate years across a variety of top software companies in the…

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over 1 year ago

Opening Ceremony is at July 27th, 11:00am EST!

We're almost here. Join us in the Opening Ceremony!

Joining the Opening Ceremony is mandatory to participate in the hackathon! We'll be going over private and exclusive details we won't be repeating or distributing publicly.

The Opening Ceremony will now be happening at 11:00am Eastern Time (moved from the previous date on the startup package), and will last for 30 minutes to 1 hour. If for any emergency reason you are unable to attend the hackathon, please send a message to advancedcurriculums.official@gmail.com.

Joining the Opening Ceremony

Please join the opening ceremony through this zoom link

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/88160714502

Important Notes

  • Please…

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over 1 year ago

Galaxy One Starter Package

Claim Your Startup Package

The Galaxy One Hackathon is starting in around 1 Week! We're excited for you to join us in the world's largest game development journey + 1 WEEK of full-time gaming. To learn more about your experience in the next few weeks, we've compiled a brief starter package for you. We'll also be releasing a full schedule for the 2 weeks of the hackathon featuring the dates and times of all events!

Starter Package Link

Join our Discord to Participate

Are you all set? One last thing to do: make sure you join our discord servers! You…

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