ABOUT SacHacks

SacHacks is the first major intercollegiate hackathon in the Sacramento, California area. We provide the place, you bring your ideas, and we have a friendly competition between all creative coders to launch their ideas into action during a 24-hour hackathon.

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Requirements

Requirements:

All submissions must be listed on Devpost by Sunday, 10:30AM Pacific Time.
Currently enrolled in a university/college or recently graduated
Judge decisions are final with no appeal process. We will not tolerate any cyberbullying of any form regarding decisions. Incidences will be reported to and investigated by our team.
In order for each person to receive a prize, EACH PERSON must be listed on Devpost. Team members not submitted in Devpost will NOT be able to receive a prize. No exceptions will be made.
Minimum of one (1) person and Maximum of four (4) people per team.
Submissions should include a video of up to 3 minutes max that showcases the project.

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Prizes

$44,800 in prizes

Best Design without code

1 winner

Best design in a project that is no-code or low-code.

Each team member receives a $25 Amazon or Figma Store gift card as per their choice.

Best Startup Idea

1 winner

The most promising startup idea will receive a $500 cash prize to use towards making that idea a reality. Consider it a contribution towards your dreams from SacHacks!!

Best Design with code

1 winner

Software development project with the best design.

Each team member receives a $50 Amazon or Figma Store gift card as per their choice.

Best Social Impact using IBM Z

2 winners

The most socially impactful idea that uses IBM Z's software tools efficiently will receive a set of Beats Studio Cancelling Earbuds each.

Note: In order to be eligible to compete in this category, your project must use IBM Z as its cloud platform.

All three winning teams will be provided a 3-month ML instance extension on the L1CC platform (valued at 7.5K) and mentorship with IBM SME for that period in addition to the below prize:

Each team member of the winning team will receive Beats Studio Cancelling true wireless earbuds.

Best use of IBM Z

3 winners

Awarded for the project that makes the best use of IBM Z.

Note: In order to be eligible to compete in this category, your project must use IBM Z as its cloud platform.

All three winning teams will be provided a 3-month ML instance extension on the L1CC platform (Valued at 7.5K per team) and mentorship with IBM SME for that period in addition to the below prizes.

(The following will be provided to each team member of the winning teams)

1st Place: Sennheiser 450BT Noise Cancelling Headphones

Runner up: Logitech G213 Prodigy Gaming Keyboard and Gaming Mouse

Second Runner-up: Mini Projector