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 2023?
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 2023 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
Main Track
Prize pool:
- Nintendo Switch Lite
- Acer Monitor
- 3D Printer
Best UI/UX
Prize: Mini projector
Statefarm
Description: People of all ages sometimes don't know the little things that you can do to keep whaat they value I better shape. State Farm would like to help customers protect what is valuable ad have a plan for rain days.
Design an app that would provide guidance for vehicle maintenance, home maintenance, or life in general that may even include preventative services.
Prizes:
1. Oculus Quest 2
2. AirPods Pro Gen 2
Best Beginner Project
Prize: Wacom tablet
MathWork Fitness Tracker
Fitness trackers are a relatively new and exciting technology used to track fitness data as you live your everyday life. The technology used in these types of devices is low-tech and can be recreated from home.
You will use MATLAB® and MATLAB Mobile® to make your own fitness tracker. Using sensor data collected with your phone, the goal is to create a model to turn this data into usable results to inform someone about their workout's effectiveness. This usable information could include any sort of fitness data such as calories burned, steps taken, or flights climbed.
Your task is to figure out what information you want to output and how to make a model to output this information. If possible, these models should utilize machine or deep learning techniques. Once you have a model and results, you will need to present your findings in an easy-to-understand manner.
Best Use of Google Cloud
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!
Best Use of MongoDB Atlas
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.
Most Creative Use of GitHub
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!
Best Use of MATLAB
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.
Best Use of Hedera
Compact Mechanical Keyboard
Hedera is a next generation blockchain technology that’s accessible from familiar programming languages like Java and JavaScript. Their goal? To make Web3 development even more accessible to hackers like you! Build a project on Hedera's test network for a chance to win amazing Compact Mechanical Keyboards for you and your team!
Build a decentralized application on Hedera using our JavaScript SDK.
Build applications that never sleep using EVM compatible smart contract service.
Say goodbye to cumbersome databases and hello to seamless scalability of Hedera Consensus Service. With no need for writing your own APIs your data is securely stored and easily retrieved.
Best Use of Streamlit
Want to take your Python skills to the next level? Streamlit is an open-source Python library that makes it easy to share and build custom web apps for machine learning, data science, and more. Instead of writing Python scripts without a UI, you can create a beautiful web app, complete with widgets and data visualizations, and deploy it for free to the Streamlit Community Cloud. You can even build a fully functional LLM-powered app with just 25 lines of code! Hack with Streamlit this weekend for your chance to win some awesome tech hardware for you and each member of your team.
Best Use of Circle
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!
Best .Tech Domain Name
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!
Devpost Achievements
Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:
Judges
Saja Hussein
Judging Criteria
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Gavel (Jury)
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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