Welcome to HackDartmouth 2021!
Despite the challenges of 2020, the HackDartmouth team is hosting a fantastic ~virtual~ hackathon! This event features over 36 hours of coding, swag, fun events, and amazing prizes!
Eligibility
- All hacks must be built by registered and accepted participants.
- Teams may include up to four members.
Requirements
- A valid submission is a hack produced at HackDartmouth from start to finish.
- Submissions must be made to DevPost by 1:00 PM EST on Sunday, April 18.
- Submissions must include:
- Project title
- Project category
- A brief description of your project, no more than 200 words
- A video demonstrating your product in action, no more than 2 minutes long
- When submitting your project, you'll select between Beginner and Advanced, and then you opt-into Design and Google Cloud categories if you want to be considered for those as well.
Prizes
$9,008 in prizes
Pinnacle Tickets
Advanced Category First-Place receives an invitation to compete in Pinnacle, the Olympics of Hackathons.
Oculus Quest 2
Advanced Category First-Place option
Airpod Pros
Advanced Category First-Place, Runner-up option
Nintendo Switch Lite
Advanced Category First-Place, Runner-up, Honorable Mention option
Mini-Drone
Advanced Category First-Place, Runner-up, Honorable Mention option
Nintendo Switch Lite
Beginner Category First-Place option
Razer Blackwidow and wired mouse
Beginner Category First-Place option
Gaomon Drawing Tablet, 11-inch
Design Category First-Place option
Apple Pencil 2
Design Category First-Place option
Contrary Capital - Venture Capital Grant
“Most Contrarian” Prize - $500 grant to the project with the most venture potential. Sponsored by Contrary Capital.
MLH - Best use of DataStax Astra
Apache Cassandra is one of the most widely used database technologies in modern computing with a proven track record of scalability. Just ask Apple, Netflix and eBay. Build a hack using DataStax Astra’s Cassandra-made-easy service and gain in-demand skills along with a chance to win Blue Snowball Microphones for you and your whole team. It’s easy to sign up with 5GB free and no credit card needed. Start becoming a Cassandra expert today!
MLH - Best Hardware Hack Sponsored by Digi-Key
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Using your preferred hardware or hardware emulator, build a hack for your chance to win a Grove Beginner Kit, with embedded Arduino Uno compatible board and 10 pre-wired modules. We select two winning teams for this category and each winning team member will receive a prize!
MLH - Best use of Google Cloud, First-place
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. First-place winners will receive a Google branded backpack.
MLH - Best use of Google Cloud, Runner-Up
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. Runner-up winners will receive a Google Cloud Swag Bag complete with a beanie, pillow, journal, socks & lanyards.
MLH - Best Domain Name from Domain.com
Register a .tech 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 and Domain.com Backpack.
Devpost Achievements
Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:
Judges
Xia Zhou
Associate Professor, Dartmouth College
Sebastiaan Joosten
Lecturer, Dartmouth College
Emma Oberstein
Software Engineer II, Microsoft
Luisa Vasquez
Design Technologist, PTC
Angi Li
Dartmouth Alum
Jason Liu
Thayer Graduate Student
Sayak Chakrabarty
Dartmouth PhD Computer Science
Dhanashree Vaidya
Thayer Graduate Student
Maximilian Orman-Kollmar
Thayer PhD Student
Morgan Sorbaro
DhungJoo Kim
Kunal Rathi
Devanshi Udeshi
Contrary Capital
Eric Browne
Contrary Capital
Henry Woram
Contrary Capital
Tudor Muntianu
Contrary Capital
Judging Criteria
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Usage
How easy to use and easy to understand is their hack? -
Creativity
How creative is their hack? Have you seen many ideas like this before or is this very unique? -
Technical (advanced only)
Is their hack technically challenging? Have they shown their skills well, and have they shown how to effectively use technology to bring an idea to life? -
Design
How creative and engaging is the design of their hack? -
Impact
Is their hack going to impact people's lives positively? Are they helping a particular community?
Questions? Email the hackathon manager
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