Highfield Hack 2021 is a great opportunity to meet a lot of smart people, build your ideas and win awesome prizes!
Challenges
Highfield Hack
Best Health Application - The best app that approaches the physical/mental health domain
Most Social Application - The app that makes people best engage with one another
MLH
Best Hardware Hack - Build a hack using your preferred hardware or hardware emulator
Best Domain Name - Registered with Domain.com
Best Use of Google Cloud - Include Google Cloud's storage, computing & data analytics power
HackathonsUK
The Hackiest Hack - Build something that's over-the-top, over-engineered, ad held together with Sellotape and bits of string... use your imagination!
echoAR
Best AR/VR Application - Following workshop on how to make AR/VR applications with echoAR
Prizes
1st Overall - Marshall Stockwell II Portable Bluetooth Speaker
2nd Overall - Dragon Touch Drone with Camera
3rd Overall - Echo Dot (4th generation)
Most Social Application
Best Health Application
[MLH] Best use of Google Cloud
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 will receive a Google Branded Parkland Academy Backpack.
[MLH] Best Domain Name from Domain.com
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 Hardware Hack presented by Digi-Key (2)
Using your preferred hardware or hardware emulator, build a hack for your chance to win a Grove Beginner Kit, with Arduino Uno R3 included. We select two winning teams for this category. Each winning team member will receive a prize!
[Hackathons UK] Hackiest Hack
Using your preferred hardware or hardware emulator, build a hack for your chance to win a Grove Beginner Kit, with Arduino Uno R3 included. We select two winning teams for this category. Each winning team member will receive a prize!
[echoAR] Best AR/VR Challenge
Attend the echoAR workshop to learn how to make AR/VR applications with echoAR
Devpost Achievements
Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:
Judges
George-Andrei Luca
ECSS Hackathon Officer
Dan Goje
HackaSoton President
Nicole Vukadinova
HackaSoton Secretary
Bogdan Stepanenko
UX UI Designer
Aaron Osher
MLH Representative
Holly Everett
HackathonsUK Representative
Yiannis Rava
Founder - CTO
Alek Vukadinov
HackaSoton Outreach Officer
Judging Criteria
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Technical Innovation
● Is the team solving a real problem? ● Did the team come up with a good solution to the problem? ● Did they come up with a radical approach? ● Is their project innovative and original? ● How creative has the group been in solving the challenge? -
Technical Difficulty
● Is the project technically impressive or complex? ● Does it seem remarkable that this hack was made in just a weekend? -
Design
● Did the team think about the user interface (UI) and user experience (UX)? ● How well designed are their project and demo? ● How are the graphics and the human-computer interaction? -
Execution
● Did the team show a working demo or was it mostly mocked? ● Can their project be considered a minimum viable product? ● Does the idea come to life with their demo or is it irrelevant to the problem they presented? -
Pitch
● Was the pitch convincing enough? ● Was it short and to the point or boring and detailed? ● Did they have a “wow” factor? ● Did they really amaze and excite the audience?
Questions? Email the hackathon manager
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