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Hackathon Sponsors

Prizes

$3,000 in prizes
MHacks Top 5
2 winners

To be revealed at closing ceremony

1st Place Overall - MLH
1 winner

MLH powered by Dell and Intel Medals
Plus a choice of one of the following:
-Dell Venue tablets
-XBox One
-Apple Watches
-Amazon Fire Stick, Kindle Fire, and Echo
-Muse Brain-sensing Headbands

2nd Place Overall - MLH
1 winner

MLH powered by Dell and Intel Medals
Plus a choice of one of the following (after 1st chooses):
-Dell Venue tablets
-XBox One
-Apple Watches
-Amazon Fire Stick, Kindle Fire, and Echo
-Muse Brain-sensing Headbands

3rd Place Overall - MLH
1 winner

MLH powered by Dell and Intel Medals
Plus a choice of one of the following (after 1st and 2nd chooses):
-Dell Venue tablets
-XBox One
-Apple Watches
-Amazon Fire Stick, Kindle Fire, and Echo
-Muse Brain-sensing Headbands

Best Travel Hack by Concur
1 winner

Awarded for best Travel Hack

HERO4 Session
https://shop.gopro.com/hero4/hero4-session/CHDHS-101.html

Best Hack to Help Developers by GitHub and MLH
1 winner

Best Hack to Help Developers wins GitHub Mona the Octocat Statues
GitHub <3 developers and we have a passion for tools. Your challenge is to build a tool for developers. Anything that a developer could use qualifies from a new web framework to a custom programming language or even a way for people to become better developers. It's not necessary, but you could use Electron (http://electron.atom.io), make a plugin for Atom (http://atom.io), or even build on top of the world's largest development community using the GitHub API (http://developer.github.com)

Best Use of Intel Edison
1 winner

Awarded for best use of Intel Edison

Dell Venue 10 Tablets

Best Use of Cloud Services by Linode
1 winner

Awarded for best use of Cloud Services

Samsung Tablets

Most Creative Use of Insights by Qualtrics
1 winner

Awarded for most creative use of insights

Choice of Snowboard, Longboard or Mountain Bike

Most Creative Use of Target API
1 winner

Awarded for most creative use of Target's API

Beats by Dre Headphones (Wireless)

Best Twilio Hack
1 winner

Awarded for best use of Twilio's API

Technomancer 2.0 Digital Wizard Hoodie

http://www.thinkgeek.com/product/inrt/?pfm=HP_TopCMD_inrt

Best Domain.com Domain Name
1 winner

Wins a Domain.com swag bag with Spark Fun Arduino Red Boards

Best Use of Esri ArcGIS
1 winner

Awarded for best use of the ArcGIS Platform

Intuos Pro Pen Touch Tablet

http://www.amazon.com/Wacom-Intuos-Touch-Tablet-PTH451/dp/B00EN27ULS/ref=sr_1_2?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1454621331&sr=1-2&keywords=intuos+pro

Best Use of Capital One API
2 winners

Awarded for best use of Capital One's API

$250 Amazon Gift Card

Best Use of Visa API
1 winner

Awarded for best use of Visa's API

Visa branded Beats headphones and Visa prepaid cards

https://usa.visa.com/pay-with-visa/cards/card-finder/prepaid-finder-page.html

Best Health Hack, from Meridian Health
1 winner

Awarded for best Health Related Hack

Parrot Jumping Mini-Drone

Best Use of Firebase
1 winner

Awarded for best use of Firebase

Chromecasts, Moto 360 Sport, Firebase Trophy, $2,600 of Firebase Credit

https://store.google.com/product/moto_360_sport

Best Use of Emergent Technology by Disney
1 winner

Best use of Emergent Technology

BB-8 Droid and TBD

Best Use of MongoDB
1 winner

Amazon Gift Card

1517 Hack Grant
3 winners

Awarded to a teams that are looking to continue working on their hack after the weekend

Devpost Achievements

Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:

Judges

William Cohen

William Cohen
MHacks Sponsorship Team

Judging Criteria

  • Technicality: Difficulty
    Does the application demonstrate technical competence/knowledge?
  • Technicality: Variety of Tech
    Did the team use a variety of technologies?
  • Technicality: Bugs
    Did the project execute cleanly, without errors and bugs?
  • Technicality: Extensibility and Functionality
    Is the hack extensible? Can more functionality be added to the app by the team members, users, or other developers?
  • Creativity: Originality
    Is the idea original? Has it never been done before?
  • Creativity: Implementation and Development
    Is the hack novel in its implementation or development?
  • Creativity: User Needs
    Does the hack identify and fulfill the user’s need?
  • Presentation: Pitch
    Were the presenters clear, and did they communicate their idea effectively?
  • Design: User Interface
    Is the application aesthetically pleasing?
  • Design: User Experience
    Is the application intuitive to use?

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