A six-week IoT Workshop series at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Our participants started with little to no knowledge about IoT, hardware, or application creation. Over six weeks, we focused on learning about the Arduino Uno, the Grove kit for Arduino, Spark Core, Azure, Xamerin, and RESTful applications to create a product and pitch it to a team of judges from the community.

You need to have attended the lecture series during the fall semester at the University of Wisconsin.

• Completeness
  Fully executed and completed described proposal.
• Execution
  Properly and efficiently came up with a solution that addresses the idea at hand.
• Ingenuity
  Come up with an idea either based on a real-world application or from a unique and creative idea inspired by imagination. Can have used another project for a starting point.
• Presentation
  Team clearly defines what problem or idea they decided to tackle, how they approached the solution, and what hurdles they had to overcome.
• Learning
  Team clearly demonstrates concepts of IoT learned during the course of the workshop series, and can answer most or all common questions relating to the technology stack being demo'd - as it relates to their project.
• Continuing Knowledge
  Team or individual shows clear enthusiasm for continuing learning - either IoT in general or on their specific project. Has clear intent to continue learning or hacking with the concepts learned this term.
• Technical Breadth
  Used one or more concepts from the workshop series: Arduino Uno, the Grove kit for Arduino, Spark Core, Azure, Xamarin, JavaScript, and/or RESTful applications.
• Style Points
  When you look at this hack, does it have a style all its own? Does this hack do what it does in an elegant way?
• Dedication
  Did the team struggle to produce their product? Was a clear effort put in to go "above and beyond" the course material: extra parts, more layers to the tech stack, discusses utilizing external resources (books, technical reps, reached out for help, etc).
• Hacking Spirit
  Sharing with the community. If a team, individuals worked well together, filling in gaps of knowledge where need be. If singular, shows pride and expresses desire to share or teach what they learned to others.