Each team member of the best hack will receive: a Portable Mini Movie Projector** OR a UGEE M708 10x6 inch Drawing Tablet. They will ALSO receive an MLH winner pin.

Each team member of the runner-up to best hack will receive: LED Hexagon Lights** OR an Arduino Kit.

**Requires an extra form to be filled out

Each team member of the best hack will receive: a Fitbit Luxe Fitness** OR a Fitness Watch Tracker. They will ALSO receive an MLH winner pin.

Each team member of the runner-up to best hack will receive: a Razer Cynosa Chroma Gaming Keyboard with RGB Keys** OR an Anker Portable Charger.

**Requires an extra form to be filled out

Each team member of the best hack will receive: a Kindle Paperwhite** OR a NBPOWER 1080P 60FPS Streaming Camera with Microphone. They will ALSO receive an MLH winner pin.

Each team member of the runner-up to best hack will receive: an ECOPAD Android 13 Tablet 10 Inch Screen with Keyboard & Mouse** OR a Gaming Wireless Keyboard & Mouse.

**Requires an extra form to be filled out

Each team member of the best hack will receive: an XPPen Deco Pro Drawing Tablet** OR a Logitech G502 Hero High Performance Gaming Mouse Special Edition. They will ALSO receive an MLH winner pin.

Each team member of the runner-up to best hack will receive: a Fujifilm Instax Mini 9 (Blue)** OR a JBL Headphone.

**Requires an extra form to be filled out

Superlative Prize: For hacks that address issues impacting the student body, each team member will receive a $50 Amazon gift card.

Superlative Prize: For hacks made by a single person, the winner will receive: a BIPRA S3 Portable External Hard Drive (1TB).

Superlative Prize: For first-time hackers, each team member will receive: a FIFINE Gaming USB Microphone.

Superlative Prize: For hacks that fail at the last minute, each team member will receive: a 1-Year Subscription to NordVPN, NordPass, & Incogni.

Superlative Prize: For hacks that have aesthetically pleasing and intuitive UI/UX, each team member will receive: a KNOWSQT Wireless Keyboard & Mouse.

A representative of NJ Transit will select a winning project that falls into either category. However, a project that fits both categories will have a better chance of winning. Each team member from the winning team will receive a prize determined by NJ Transit. The team will also have the chance to present the winning project to the CIO and other executives of NJ Transit.

RAFFLE: Assorted Star Wars and Avengers Lego Sets

Circle Branded Hardware Wallet

With Circle, you can embed secure wallets into your app in just minutes. Circle Web3 wallets are compatible with multiple blockchains and are supported by over a dozen programming language SDKs. Circle’s programmable wallets will enable you to add secure transactions to your hackathon project using RESTful APIs, with options for both user and developer controlled transactions. If your hackathon idea involves in-app purchases, user to user payments, app to user payments, or all of the above, integrating Circle programmable wallets to your Web2 or Web3 tech-stack may be the perfect solution.

Sign up for a developer account and start using Circle’s APIs today, for a chance to win a Circle Branded Hardware Wallet for you and each of your teammates!

RAFFLE: Assorted Star Wars and Avengers Lego Sets

Power Bank

Soroban is an open-source Rust-based developer-friendly smart contracts platform built for scalability. It is interoperable with the layer-1 Stellar blockchain and benefits from the network’s existing global reach and access. With Soroban, developers have the freedom to create applications as borderless as the internet.

Learning how to build Decentralized Applications (DAPPs) using Soroban is easy and fun. Simply follow along with the DAPPs on Soroban challenge by forking either of the Crowdfund or Payment repositories, and make the project your own with personalized customizations! The challenge link even has some simple walk-throughs available to help you get started.

Remember to customize your DAPP using Soroban this weekend for a chance to win a Power Bank for you and each of your teammates!

Wireless YoYo Speaker
MATLAB and Simulink are computational tools used at over 100,000 businesses, government and university sites in over 190 countries. Use MATLAB and/or Simulink exclusively or integrate them into another tool for your next hack to win an exclusive MathWorks branded Wireless YoYo Speaker! You can also claim a free MATLAB software license to get started.

3D Printing Pen
TinyMCE is a rich-text editor that allows you to create formatted content within a hacker-friendly interface. Adding a Rich Text Editor component has never been easier! Alongside functionalities like bold, italics, underlines, hyperlinks, or titles (to name a few), the editor also allows users to enable HTML tags, MarkDown or CSS; TinyMCE also gives you the ability to edit your text elements directly with no code, similar to the way you would edit a word document.

TinyMCE also has dozens of plugins that allow developers to customize their user’s experience. From implementing accessibility checkers, autocorrect, and enhanced image editing to utilizing emoticons, adding responsive design with auto resize and even a ChatGPT AI Assistant, there’s a plugin for every use case imaginable!

Signup for TinyMCE for a free trial and get started today, no credit card required! To qualify for the Best Use of TinyMCE prize category, be sure to render the editor with a Tiny Cloud account and use at least 3 open source plugins and 2 premium plugins in your project, for a chance to win a 3D Printing Pen for you and each of your team members!

Google Cloud Backpack
Build your hackathon project with a suite of secure storage, powerful compute, and integrated data analytics products provided by Google Cloud. See full list of products here: g.co/cloud. Learn more about the tools and opportunities with Google Cloud by joining the Google Cloud Student Innovators program - goo.gle/student-innovators. Winners will receive a Google Cloud branded backpack!

Be sure to redeem your Google Cloud Credits as soon as possible through the Google Cloud Credit Form. Use the promo code in your pre-event email to access the form!

M5GO IoT Starter Kit
MongoDB Atlas takes the leading modern database and makes it accessible in the cloud! Get started with a $50 credit for students or sign up for the Atlas free forever tier (no credit card required). Along with a suite of services and functionalities, you'll have everything you need to manage all of your data, and you can get a headstart with free resources from MongoDB University! Build a hack using MongoDB Atlas for a chance to win a M5GO IoT Starter Kit for you and each member of your team.

GitHub Octocat Puzzle & Sticker Pack
GitHub is one of the best ways to collaborate, push code, get feedback, and show the world what you’ve built during a hackathon. To take it a step further, GitHub is now offering you access to industry tools, events & learning resources through something called GitHub Global Campus. Win this weekend’s Most Creative Use of GitHub prize category, first by signing up for GitHub Global Campus and second by using a GitHub repository to host your hackathon project’s code! Make sure your use of GitHub stands out with a detailed ReadMe page, meaningful pull requests and collaboration history, and even a GitHub pages deployment!

Blue Snowball Microphone & a Free .Tech Domain Name for Life!
Make your Team's Achievements timeless: Win a .Tech Domain Name for Life to Showcase and Expand Your Project, Plus 4 Blue Snowball Mics for Effortless Collaboration on Zoom, empowering you to build even more cool things together!