About the challenge
Hack for Humanity is a hackathon that brings young minds together in a 2-week event to come up with unique and creative solutions to everyday problems. The participants' goal is to use technology to make meaningful changes in society.
You may work individually or in teams of 2-4.
Prior experience is not required! Participants of any skill level are welcome to participate and work together in this hackathon.
A special thanks to all our sponsors for their support (Wolfram, 1Password, XYZ, and Desmos)!
Thank you to our set of skilled judges for helping this event happen!
Get started
- Join the Devpost hackathon on this page. This is where you will submit your project.
- We suggest you join our Discord server to stay updated and engage with the community.
- If you know someone else who may be interested, you could send them this URL and ask them to sign up: https://hack-for-humanity-25.devpost.com/. For every participant who joins the event and enters your username in the Discord server's "referral-raffle" text channel, your name will be entered into the raffle for the Referral Raffle.
- Any announcements will be posted on Discord.
Requirements
What to Build
You must build any piece of software, whether it is an app, website, game, etc., that solves or improves a local or global issue. This issue could relate to the environment, health, education, etc.
What to Submit
- Software: Include the GitHub repository for your software with the functioning source code.
- Video: A video (4 min max) explaining
- The issue you're solving
- Your submitted software and its functionality in detail
- An overview of how it was created
Prizes
Participation
**Everyone who registers will receive:
• Wolfram|One for 6 months ($830) - may be used as a resource during the hackathon
Wolfram Award
**Everyone who submits a project using Wolfram Language will receive:
• Wolfram|One Subscription ($1660)
• Wolfram summer program scholarship ($500)
First place
• 3 7-day Interview Cake full coding interview courses ($150)
• 1Password Families 1 year subscription ($59.88)
• Desmos Swag Pack ($45)
• 2 .xyz domains for 1 year ($20)
• Certificate of recognition
Second place
• 2 7-day Interview Cake full coding interview courses ($100)
• 1Password Families 1 year subscription ($59.88)
• 2 .xyz domains for 1 year ($20)
• Certificate of recognition
Third place
• 2 7-day Interview Cake full coding interview courses ($100)
• 1Password Families 1 year subscription ($59.88)
• 2 .xyz domains for 1 year ($20)
• Certificate of recognition
Honorable mentions (4th & 5th)
• 7-day Interview Cake full coding interview course ($50)
• 1Password Families 1 year subscription ($59.88)
• 1 .xyz domain for 1 year ($10)
• Certificate of recognition
6th - 13th positions
• 7-day Interview Cake full coding interview course ($50)
• 1Password Families 1 year subscription ($59.88)
• 1 .xyz domain for 1 year ($10)
• Certificate of recognition
14th - 42rd
• 7-day Interview Cake full coding interview course ($50)
• 1 .xyz domain for 1 year ($10)
Public voting winner
• 2 7-day Interview Cake full coding interview courses ($100)
• 1Password Families 1 year subscription ($59.88)
• 2 .xyz domains for 1 year ($20)
• Certificate of recognition
Best use of AI/ML
• 2 7-day Interview Cake full coding interview courses ($100)
• 1Password Families 1 year subscription ($59.88)
• 2 .xyz domains for 1 year ($20)
• Certificate of recognition
Referral Raffle
** For every referral, your name will be put into this raffle (participants must enter your Devpost username to the "referral-raffle" channel on Discord):
• 2 7-day Interview Cake full coding interview courses ($100)
• 1 .xyz domain for 1 year ($10)
Devpost Achievements
Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:
Judges
Iacopo Schianchi
Event Organizer
Vidisha Vijay
Senior Data Scientist at CVS Health
Siddharth Nandagopal
Software Engineering Professional at iBASIS
Akshay Phadke
Senior Software Engineer at Webflow
Gaurav Mittal
IT Manager in Data Science
Vinothkumar Kolluru
Senior Data Scientist at Fractal Analytics
Advaitha Naidu Chintakunta
Software Development Engineer II at Amazon
Sudeep Mungara
Data Scientist at Data-Core Systems
Alex Mirankov
Software Engineer at EPAM Systems
Prathab Murugesan
Head of Engineering at FalconX
Xuan Liu
Network Architect and Technical Instructor at Ericsson
Angelina Sam
Tech Sales professional and Entrepreneur
Naveen Achyuta
Network Reliability Engineer at Roblox
Sankalp Kumar
Security Developer and Expert Tech industry
Shivank Rai
Senior Product Manager at Amazon
Aditya Deshpande
Senior Software Engineer at PayPal
Shubham Malhotra
Software Engineer at Microsoft
Bhanupakash Madupati
Senior Member of IEEE and Senior Software Engineer
Yichen Wang
Quantitative Associate with SMBC Group
Cher Hu
Gemini API Product Manager
Sadhasivam Mohanadas
Principal Enterprise Architect at Elevance Health
Prakhar Agarwal
Product Manager at Carbon Direct
Grace Chi
Founder of Balloon
Maneesh Karnati
Software Development Manager Amazon Web Services
Artem Holinka
Senior Frontend Developer at Jiji
Siri Varma Vegiraju
Software Development Engineer at Azure
Jagdish Jangid
Principal Software Engineer at Infinera Corp
Ravi Laudya
Development Expert at SAP
Bharath Chandra Mummadisetty
Senior Data Engineer at Netflix
Manav Mittal
Sr. Project Manager at ACM
Thrushna Matharasi
Senior Manager, Data Engineering, Reporting and AI at Solera, Inc.
Samhitha Rama Prasad
Software Engineer at BlackRock
Balaji Chinnu
Telecom QA Expert
Vijay Pahuja
Senior Lead Software Engineer at Cox Automotive Inc.
Anishek Kamal
Data and AI Architect at Microsoft
Bharath Varma Sagi
Senior Data Scientist at Starbucks
Guruprasad G Venkatesha
Cloud Security Leader at Microsoft
Xiaochuan Xu
Software Engineer at DoorDash
Bhaarat Pachori
Technical AI Lead for General Motors
Toby Brown
Founder & CEO of Beem
Krishna Kumar
Vice President of Digital Development at Southwest Key Programs
Sravan Kumar Chittimalla
Senior Backend Software Engineer at Glo Digital
Nastassia Shahun
Senior IT Business Analyst at Flip
Pranav Prasad
Software Engineer at Google
Ishva Kanani
Security Consultant at AWS
Danil Temnikov
Software Engineering Team Lead at EPAM Systems
Aditya Mehra
Staff Software Engineer at Bank of America
Ying Yang
Product Lead, Growth at Niantic, Inc.
Albert Lie
Cofounder & CTO @ Forward Labs
Sridhar Rao
Principal Engineer at Optum
Milavkumar Shah
Engineering Manager at Amazon
Praneeta Pujari
Apple Watch Lead at Apple
Aparna Bhat
Senior Analyst at EY
Priya Natarajan
Technical Fellow at Walmart
Radhika Lampuse
Solar Energy Analyst at DNV
Mykyta Roilian
Engineering Manager at LeanDNA
Hrishekessa Raghu Eeti
Software Engineer at Cisco
Joanna Jiang
Software Engineer at Microsoft
Wei Duan
ML Engineer at Google and Snapchat, imagineapp.co cofounder
Vishal Mehta
UX Design Lead at Apple
Avinash Bawane
Senior Software Engineer at Apple
Balaji Govindarajan
Software Test Engineer at Progressive
Yifan Zou
Technical Lead at Dream Voyage, Former Senior Software Engineer at Bilibili
Judging Criteria
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Impact
Does the project address a specific and relevant global issue? How effective is the project at solving or improving this issue? -
Innovation and creativity
How creative and innovative is the project? Does the project showcase novel approaches or technologies to solve the issue? -
Design
How user-friendly and intuitive is the solution for users? -
Presentation
How clear is the team's presentation of their project? How well does the team communicate their ideas, objectives, and results in their video?
Questions? Email the hackathon manager
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