Welcome to UNT NSBE's annual hackathon, NSBEHack 2023! This year's hackathon will be in person and participants will have the opportunity to showcase their talents in front of their peers and companies for a chance to win awards. Not sure if this hackathon is right for you? Feel free to explore this website to learn more. Subscribe to our email list and discord to remain up to date on all NSBEHack 2022 information!

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Prizes

$1,825 in prizes
1st Place
3 winners

2nd Place
3 winners

3rd Place
3 winners

Best Use Of Flow
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1 winner

Prize: $100 worth of FLOW Token.

Flow is a public, decentralized, layer-one blockchain designed for creating limitless Web3 apps for mainstream adoption. Flow empowers hackers like you to build decentralized applications and share them with the world. Write safe and readable smart contracts with Cadence and explore the potential of composable, on-chain logic. With SDKs in multiple languages like Javascript, Go, Kotlin, Python, Swift, Unity, you can jump in and start your hack using Flow this weekend for a chance to win $100 USD worth of FLOW token for each member of your team!

Best Use of Google Cloud
1 winner

Prize: Google Cloud Branded Patagonia 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. Each winning team member will receive a Google branded backpack

Best Use of Hedera
1 winner

Prize: Glorious Modular 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 Glorious Modular Compact Mechanical Keyboards for you and your team!

Best Use of Kintone
1 winner

Prize: Breadboard IoT Kit

Still not sure what backend to use in your hack? Kintone is a low-code web database that lets you set up your backend in minutes. It's beginner friendly, allowing you to customize your Kintone app using nothing but JavaScript and HTML. If you're interested in IoT, your team can snag a FREE microcontroller by signing up for Kintone. If you use Kintone in your hackathon project, you'll have a chance to win a breadboard IoT kit to power up the hardware hacking for each member of your team!

Best Use of MongoDB Atlas
1 winner

Prize: M5G0 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! Build a hack using MongoDB Atlas for a chance to win a M5GO IoT Starter Kit for you and each member of your team.

Best Use of AI in Education
1 winner

Prize: TickTime Pomodoro Timer

Artificial Intelligence (AI) models, such as large language models (LLMs), are transforming how we interact with computers. During this weekend's hackathon, we want you to apply AI towards improving education to produce tools that support the quality, accessibility, and equitability of learning in today's classrooms. You can use AI to address any challenge teachers and students face, such as curriculum planning, question selection, teacher training, content generation, personalized feedback, automated grading and more. For this challenge, we encourage you to draw on your own educational experiences and propose technical solutions to problems you've regularly encountered as students — after all, you are the best to know where our education system needs improvement. Design impactful and effective AI tools for education for a chance to win a TickTime Pomodoro Timer!

Best Use of Taipy
1 winner

Prize: JBL Wireless Headphones

Taipy is a powerful yet easy to use open-source Python library for creating full stack web applications! If you’re a Python developer, this library enables you to build interactive and dynamic graphical user interfaces and support them with data-driven backends. All of these functionalities are just a pip install taipy away and can cut your development time in half! Use Taipy in your hackathon project for a chance to win a set of JBL Wireless Headphones for you and each of your team members!

Devpost Achievements

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Judges

Tramel Middlebrook

Tramel Middlebrook

Judging Criteria

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