JOIN US FOR A WEEKEND DEDICATED TO FILLING THE GENDER GAP, EXPLORING TECHNOLOGY, AND BUILDING THE NEXT BIG THING! OUR MISSION IS TO SUPPORT AND NURTURE WOMEN* IN TECH BY HOSTING RUTGERS' PREMIERE HACKATHON ADDRESSING ISSUES OF THE GENDER GAP IN TECHNOLOGY. EXPECT A WEEKEND FULL OF WORKSHOPS, MENTORSHIP, TECH TALKS, SOCIAL ACTIVITIES, AND MORE! NO EXPERIENCE IS NECESSARY, YOU JUST NEED PASSION.

IN ITS twelfth ITERATION, OVER 200 STUDENTS WILL COME TOGETHER FOR 24 HOURS TO CREATE WITH CODE AND TURN THEIR IDEAS INTO REALITY. HACKHERS IS ORGANIZED BY RUTGERS WOMEN IN COMPUTER SCIENCE.

Requirements

What to Build

Hackers can choose from ONE of these four tracks to build their project:

  1. AI & Analytics
  2. Social Good
  3. Arts & Media
  4. Financial Solutions

AND/OR choose a company challenge:

  1. ADP Challenge Hack: Hack the Sales Journey with AI 
  2. Fiserv Challenge Hack: Reimagine Payments

Additionally, Hackers can choose UP TO (2) general prizes to opt into:

  1. Best Overall Hack
  2. Best Newbie Hack
  3. Best UI/UX Hack
  4. Best Mobile App Hack

Lastly, Hackers can opt-in to any or all MLH prizes, including:

  1. Best Use of Gemini API
  2. Best Use of ElevenLabs
  3. Best Use of Solana
  4. Best Use of Presage
  5. Best Use of Vultr

EXCEEDING THE MAXIMUM NUMBER OF PRIZE CATEGORIES WILL RESULT IN REMOVAL OF EXTRA CATEGORIES, SO PLEASE FOLLOW THE RULES.

What to Submit

Please provide a GitHub link for your project or your submission will be invalid.

When submitting, go to additional info --> sponsor/special prizes and OPT INTO THE PRIZES YOU WANT TO BE CONSIDERED FOR BASED ON THE RULES ON THIS DEVPOST.

Hackathon Sponsors

Prizes

15 non-cash prizes
Best Overall Hack ("Most Whimsical Hack")
1 winner

Kodak Digital Camera
MLH Gold Winner Pin

AI & Analytics Track Winner
1 winner

Mini Projector

Social Good Track Winner
1 winner

Vinyl Record Player

Arts & Media Track Winner
1 winner

Lego Bonsai Tree

Financial Solutions Track Winner
1 winner

JBL Noise Cancelling Wireless Headphone

Best Newbie Hack
1 winner

Drone
MLH Gold Winner Pin

Best UI/UX Hack
1 winner

Graphics Drawing Tablet

Best Mobile App Hack
1 winner

JBL Go 3

ADP Challenge Hack: Hack the Sales Journey with AI
1 winner

Mini Sono Wireless Speaker. Build a full stack AI powered solution that helps sales teams remember and execute follow-ups effortlessly.

Fiserv Challenge Hack: Reimagine Payments
1 winner

$100 Gyft (electronic). Join the Reimagine Payments Challenge and unleash your creativity to tackle real-world payment challenges. This is your chance to develop innovative solutions that drive efficiency, enhance security, and boost user engagement in the payments ecosystem. Whether you're designing a new payment method, improving user experience, or leveraging data analytics, we encourage bold ideas that can transform how people transact. Bring your vision to life and help us reimagine the future of payments!

[MLH] Best Use of Gemini API
1 winner

Google Swag Kits
It’s time to push the boundaries of what's possible with AI using Google Gemini. Check out the Gemini API to build AI-powered apps that make your friends say WHOA. So, what can Gemini do for your hackathon project?
Understand language like a human and build a chatbot that gives personalized advice
Analyze info like a supercomputer and create an app that summarizes complex research papers
Generate creative content like code, scripts, music, and more
Think of the possibilities… what will you build with the Google Gemini API this weekend?

[MLH] Best Use of ElevenLabs
1 winner

Wireless Earbuds
Deploy natural, human-sounding audio with ElevenLabs. Create realistic, dynamic, and emotionally expressive voices for any project, from interactive AI companions to narrated stories and voice-enabled apps. ElevenLabs will empower you to build rich, immersive experiences without the need for actors or complex audio production, using simply the power of AI.

Integrate fully autonomous audio experiences into your hack with ElevenLabs and give your project a voice, along with giving your team the chance to win some wireless earbuds!

[MLH] Best Use of Solana
1 winner

Ledger Nano S Plus
The world of development is evolving fast and Solana is leading the charge with a network built to handle all of your infrastructure needs. Forget high fees and slow confirmations, it’s time to build applications that are fast, efficient, and scalable.

Harness Solana's core advantages like blazing fast execution and near-zero transaction costs to make your hackathon ideas become real world projects. With Solana, the possibilities are endless.
Create a game, social app, or consumer product that relies on instant, high-frequency transactions.
Design a sophisticated trading, lending, or decentralized exchange (DEX).
Build a prototype for supply chain, identity, or payments that can handle massive, real-world volume.
Show us how you can innovate with Solana for a chance to win some cool prizes for you and each member of your team!

[MLH] Best Use of Presage
1 winner

Fitbit Inspire & Presage Perks
Presage is pioneering the Human Sensing Layer, enabling any application to understand a person’s real-time physical and emotional state. With Presage, you can leverage clinically-proven vital signs, movement, emotion, and/or focus tracking to build a project that gives the standard camera super powers.

Use any of the Presage SDKs to integrate capabilities like real-time heart rate, breathing rate, engagement levels, and facial expressions into your hack with just a few lines of code.
Immersive Gaming & Entertainment: Dynamically change game difficulty or story elements based on a player's excitement or focus levels.
Contactless Wellness & Fitness: Build a non-invasive app that monitors stress, recovery, or fitness performance.
Accessibility & Security: Utilize vital signs for effortless authentication, or to enhance accessibility.
Productivity: Design a tool that tracks focus or stress.
Build your next hack with Presage and show us the future of human-computer interaction! Win awesome prizes along for with the following perks from the Presage team:
Free refills for Presage Development credits to accelerate you through your next three months of building
30% off all Presage usage charges for your first year after going live

[MLH] Best Use of Vultr
1 winner

Portable Screens
Vultr empowers hackers to bring their high-performance projects to life instantly; providing everything from the speed of one-click deployment and scalable cloud compute, to specialized Vultr Cloud GPUs that can power AI-driven applications. We want you to push the limits of what can be built when infrastructure is no longer the bottleneck!

Sign up for a Vultr account today and claim your free cloud credits! Take your next hack to the cloud with Vultr for a chance to win some awesome portable screens for you and your team!

Devpost Achievements

Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:

Judges

Samaneh Hamidi

Samaneh Hamidi

Dr. Hayet Bensetti Benbader

Dr. Hayet Bensetti Benbader

Sagar Shah

Sagar Shah

Pathik Sharma

Pathik Sharma

Milind Jagre

Milind Jagre

RaviKumar Bhuvanagiri

RaviKumar Bhuvanagiri

Pranavi Kakani

Pranavi Kakani

Srishti Nag

Srishti Nag

Deepthi Gopi

Deepthi Gopi

Swathy Purushothaman

Swathy Purushothaman
ADP

Vinay Nayar

Vinay Nayar
ADP

Charisse Lim

Charisse Lim
Fiserv

Amanada Tsui

Amanada Tsui
Fiserv

Akshara Kollu

Akshara Kollu
Fiserv

Sarah Lam

Sarah Lam
Fiserv

Sara Aly

Sara Aly
MLH

Judging Criteria

  • Originality
    Does the solution address the problem in a creative or innovative way?
  • Impact
    Does the solution have realistic applications in the present or future?
  • Functionality/Quality
    Does the solution work as intended and effectively solve the problem?
  • Technical Complexity
    Does the solution demonstrate a high level of technical skill or knowledge?

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