HackRice is Rice University's annual hackathon event. Participants trade their sleep for a weekend and join a team to create a project - typically software - in an environment optimized for creativity. At the end of the event, the participants demonstrate their projects to fellow hackers, visitors, and a panel of judges. The event is hosted by the Rice Computer Science Club.

Learn more at http://hack.rice.edu/.

 

Eligibility

Learn more about eligibility requirements at hack.rice.edu.

Confirmed HackRice 7 attendees may make a Devpost submission. Submissions should be one per project. Alumni may also submit a submission, but it will not be eligible for judging and prizes.

 

Requirements

The following items will be expected for the submission:
  • Team members, including contact information.
  • Application name and its description and purpose.
  • A 2 minutes max video demonstrating the hack can be helpful, but is not required.
  • URL to live demo of the application if applicable.

Hackathon Sponsors

Prizes

$5,702 in prizes
Grand Prize
4 winners

Juiced Electric Skateboard

2nd Place Prize
4 winners

Nintendo Switch

3rd Place Prize
4 winners

Fancy Coffee Maker

First Timers Track
1 winner

Sunrise Alarm Clock

Data Science Track
1 winner

Amazon Echo Plus

Design Track
4 winners

Polaroid Cube

Best use of Algolia
1 winner

Casio CA-506C-5A Calculator Watch for each team member

Best use of Google Cloud Platform
1 winner

Google Home Minis for each team member

Best Domain Name from Domain.com
1 winner

Raspberry Pi & PiHut Essential Kit for each team member

Best IoT Hack Using a Qualcomm Device
1 winner

410C Dragonboard for each team member

Best use of the Cisco Webex Teams API Weekly Challenge
1 winner

Power banks for each team member

Best use of HERE.com
1 winner

Hacker gear and swag from HERE.com

Best use of Clarifai’s API Weekly Challenge
1 winner

Hacker gear from Clarifai for each team member

Snap Kit Weekly Challenge
1 winner

Spectacles by Snapchat for each team member

Best Social Good Hack from Fidelity Weekly Challenge
1 winner

$50 Gift Cards from Fidelity for each team member

Best use of Authorize.net
1 winner

LS20 Gaming Headsets for each team member

Lilie Challenge
4 winners

Schlumberger Challenge
4 winners

Chevron Challenge
4 winners

HBK Challenge
1 winner

Microsoft Challenge
4 winners

Capital One Challenge
1 winner

Indeed Challenge
1 winner

JP Morgan Challenge
1 winner

Two Sigma (BEST USE OF DATA SCIENCE) Challenge
1 winner

Best Use of Data Science

Facebook Challenge
4 winners

Devpost Achievements

Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:

Judges

TBA

TBA

Judging Criteria

  • Technical Difficulty
    We are looking for technically advanced solutions to technically challenging problems that make use of hardware and API's.That being said, if you can solve a technically challenging problem with a simple solution, we will be very impressed!
  • Creativity
    We are looking for original ideas or new angles on existing ideas. For example, using an API in a unique way. We know API's work - we want to see if you can do something new and awesome with them!
  • Design & Polish
    We are looking for aesthetically pleasing projects with smooth and clear user experience.
  • Practicality & Usefulness
    We are looking for socially good projects that people would use. Additionally, we would like to emphasize that we will extensively check to make sure that your project doesn't only work on the cases you demo.

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