Enjoy 24 hours of hacking, open to build anything you like. Challenges will be provided but we encourage people to think outside the box.

We will have student and supporter led workshops to introduce you to various technologies.

You can hack in teams of up to 4 people but if you're a lone wolf no one will feel offended! Teams of more than 4 people will not be considered for our many cool prizes.

Hackathon Sponsors

Prizes

£3,360 in prizes
1st Place
1 winner

Awarded to the best hack in the competition. Each member of the winning team will receive an Arduino Kit and a DigitalOcean voucher.

2nd Place
1 winner

Awarded to the second best hack in the competition. Each member of the winning team will receive a SteelSeries Apex 3 keyboard and a DigitalOcean voucher.

3rd Place
1 winner

Awarded to the third best hack in the competition. Each member of the winning team will receive a GitHub t-shirt voucher and a DigitalOcean voucher.

[MLH] Best Domain Registered with Domain.com
1 winner

Register a .tech, .space, or .online domain name using Domain.com during the weekend. Each team may submit one entry per person on the team. Each winning team member will receive a PowerSquare Qi Wireless Phone Charger & Domain.com Backpack.

[MLH] Best use of Google Cloud
1 winner

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. Each winning team member located in the US will receive a Google Cloud Swag Bag complete with a beanie, pillow, journal, socks and lanyards. International winners will receive a Google branded Parkland backpack.

[MLH] Best Hardware Hack Sponsored by Digi-Key
2 winners

Using your preferred hardware or hardware emulator, build a hack for your chance to win a Grove Beginner Kit, with an embedded Arduino compatible board. 1 prize for each winning team member with 2 winning teams per event!

[Hackathons UK] Hackiest Hack challenge
1 winner

Build something that's over-the-top, over-engineered, and held together with Sellotape and bits of string... use your imagination! Winners get a GIANT enter button!

Devpost Achievements

Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:

Judges

Dr. Andrew Crossan

Dr. Andrew Crossan
University of Surrey

Monique Ho

Monique Ho
BAE Systems Applied Intelligence

Kai Barclay

Kai Barclay
CS Educator

Theodore Messinezis

Theodore Messinezis
Past HackSurrey commitee member

Hugh Wells

Hugh Wells
London Borough Of Hackney Council

Ankur

Ankur
UIET KUK

Aaron Osher

Aaron Osher
Major League Hacking

Holly Everett

Holly Everett
Hackathons UK

Judging Criteria

  • Technology
    How technically impressive was the hack? Was the technical problem the team tackled difficult? Did it use a particularly clever technique or did it use many different components? Did the technology involved make you go "wow"?
  • Design
    Did the team put thought into the user experience? How well designed is the interface? For a website, this might be about how beautiful the CSS or graphics are. For a hardware project, it might be more about how good the human-computer interaction is.
  • Completion
    Does the hack work? Did the team achieve everything they wanted?
  • Learning
    Did the team stretch themselves? Did they try to learn something new?
  • Creativity
    How creative is this project?

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