What is HackUTA?
HackUTA, one of North Texas' largest hackathons, is a 24-hour marathon for students to design, develop, and pitch a project from scratch. Regardless of experience, skill, major, or background, students will work together to pitch the best solution possible.
Why participate in HackUTA 2022?
The University of Texas at Arlington takes pride as one of the nation’s most diverse undergraduate student bodies (National #3, Texas #1), according to U.S. News & World Report’s 2022 Best Colleges rankings. Take on challenges against and alongside one-of-a-kind teams! Develop skills and make friends at our workshops, socials, mini-event games, and challenges. We will be providing free meals, snacks, boba, and swag bags to all registered attendees. Aditionally, a free HackUTA 2022 T-shirt will be awarded to students who demo their project for potential prizes.
How do I prepare? What if I'm a beginner? What will be available for me?
During the event, there will be technical—and non-technical—opportunities hosted throughout, and mentors ready to assist throughout the 24-hour marathon. We highly recommend beginners submit their projects, regardless of how clean it is! The experience is more than worth it. :)
Requirements
Judging will be conducted in person. For a project to be considered for prizes, it must be submitted on Devpost and include the 3 items:
1. Title
2. Description
3. Challenges you're submitting for (excluding the main challenge).
Prizes
1st Place - Grand Prize
Sony WH-1000XM5
2nd Place - Grand Prize
Apple Watch SE 2 (2022)
3rd Place - Grand Prize
Nintendo Switch Lite
Best Mobile App - Statefarm
LG 34in Ultrawide Gaming Monitor
State Farm offers many types of insurance
outside of Auto and Home such as Pet Insurance and more. Now YOUR challenge
Create a mobile-friendly app that introduces one or more of State Farms other offerings in a way that is easy for customers to understand.
Best Use of Velo by Wix - MLH
We know how difficult it can be to create a phenomenal website in a short period of time, especially when it comes to hackathons. Velo by Wix cuts down your development time without sacrificing on functionality! With a built-in database and fully customizable JavaScript frontend and backend, you can develop a full-stack application directly in your browser. With Velo, all the tools you need are conveniently located in one platform! Build your hackathon project with Velo by Wix for a chance to win Wacom Drawing Tablets for you and each of your teammates.
Most Creative Use of Twilio - MLH
Twilio allows you to incorporate mobile messaging, phone calls and a ton of other awesome communication features right into your hackathon project using web service APIs. Are you building an e-commerce website and want to send text notifications or email confirmations once an order is completed? Or maybe your application needs to verify users based on their mobile numbers? Twilio makes all this possible and more. Build a hack that simplifies your life using any one of Twilio’s APIs for a chance to win a Twilio Swag Box and GameGo Console for you and each of your teammates!
Best Domain Name from Domain.com - MLH
Register a .tech 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 Domain.com branded backpack
Best use of CockroachDB - MLH
Build your hackathon project on CockroachDB's open source and indestructible SQL database. Utilize CockroachDB in your hack for a chance to win a 3D printing pen for each team member. What's more, ALL projects submitted that use CockroachDB will receive a free t-shirt while supplies last!
Best Use of DeSo - MLH
DeSo is the official Web3 sponsor of the MLH Hackathon League and the first Layer 1 blockchain custom-built for decentralized social media applications. While blockchains like Avalanche or Solana cost $0.50+ to store just a 200-character post, the DeSo blockchain is built with custom indexing and storage optimizations which make it 10,000X cheaper to store social content on-chain! In order to qualify for the contest, you must launch an app that writes to the DeSo blockchain and/or implements DeSo identity. While social media apps are a great fit for DeSo, you can also build financial apps, marketplaces, and more on the DeSo blockchain. For inspiration on project ideas, you can check out some of the existing 200+ apps already live on DeSo at Bithunt.com as well as our DeSo APIs. The Best Use of DeSo gets $100 worth of $DESO coin & an exclusive DeSo branded tumbler!
Cheese Balls
Hungry Hungry Hippos winner, chicken dinner?
Devpost Achievements
Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:
Judges
Donna French
Senior Lecturer at UTA
Jacob Luber
Assistant Professor at UTA
Nadra Guizani
Assistant Professor at UTA
Justyn Jaworski
Assistant Professor at UTA
Greg Turner
Associate Professor at UTA
Rosie Kallie
Associate Professor at UTA
Trevor Bakker
Adjunct Professor at UTA
Kelly French
Adjunct Professor at UTA
MD Salik Parwez
Senior Lecturer at UTA
Judging Criteria
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Technology
How difficult is the hack? -
Design
How was the user experience? -
Learning
Have you worked something similar or is this new? -
Completion
Does it work? -
Gavel
For general judging, present your project to the judge for 3-5 minutes about your project, how you built it, your challenges, and a demo.
Questions? Email the hackathon manager
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