judging and prizes!
1st Place
A prize worth $300 for each participant. Projects are judged based off Technical Difficulty, Originality, Polish, Usefulness.
3rd Place
A prize worth $100 for each participant. Projects are judged based off Technical Difficulty, Originality, Polish, Usefulness.
Best Use of Snap Kit
Use Snap Kit's web or mobile SDK in your hack. Each winning team member will receive a pair of Spectacles by Snapchat or another awesome prize.
Best Domain Registered with Domain.com
Register a domain using Domain.com during the weekend. Each team may submit one entry per person on the team. Each winning team member will receive a Raspberry Pi & PiHut Essential Kit.
2nd Place
A prize worth $200 for each participant. Projects are judged based off Technical Difficulty, Originality, Polish, Usefulness.
Best Use of Multimedia
HomeNet is looking for a team to find the most creative approach in integrating multimedia into their project. Whether it be images, video, or other types of media projects will be ranked based off their unique approach.
Best use of Google Cloud Platform
Use Google Cloud Platform in your hack. Each winning team member will receive a Google Home Mini, max 4 per team.
Best IoT Hack using a Qualcomm Device
Use a Qualcomm device, like the Dragonboard 410C, in your IoT project. Each winning team member will receive their own DragonBoard 410C.
Best Use of Wolfram Language
Projects will be judged on the sophistication and cleverness of their use of Wolfram Language as well as the criticality of the Wolfram tech stack to the realization of the project. Winners will recieve a year long membership to Wolfram Language as well as mentorship from the Wolfram team.
Overview
Project submissions must be in by 11:30 AM, but you can continue hacking until the expo at 1:30 PM.
At the expo, each team will present their projects for a few minutes at a time to small groups of judges in a science-fair format. After expo judging ends at 2:00 PM, the top teams will be chosen to demo onstage during our closing ceremony in front of all of HackWCU!
Juding Criteria
Technical Difficulty Is the hack technically interesting or difficult? Is it just some lipstick on an API, or were there real technical challenges to surmount? This is the most important criterion that your hack will be judged upon for the general prizes.Originality Is the hack more than just another generic social/mobile/local app? Does it do something entirely novel, or at least take a fresh approach to an old problem?
Polish Is the hack usable in its current state? Is the user experience smooth? Does everything appear to work? Is it well designed?
Usefulness Is the hack practical? Is it something people would actually use? Does it fulfill a real need people have?
1st Place
A prize worth $300 for each participant. Projects are judged based off Technical Difficulty, Originality, Polish, Usefulness.
2nd Place
A prize worth $200 for each participant. Projects are judged based off Technical Difficulty, Originality, Polish, Usefulness.
3rd Place
A prize worth $100 for each participant. Projects are judged based off Technical Difficulty, Originality, Polish, Usefulness.
Best Use of Multimedia
HomeNet is looking for a team to find the most creative approach in integrating multimedia into their project. Whether it be images, video, or other types of media projects will be ranked based off their unique approach.
Best Use of Snap Kit
Use Snap Kit's web or mobile SDK in your hack. Each winning team member will receive a pair of Spectacles by Snapchat or another awesome prize.
Best use of Google Cloud Platform
Use Google Cloud Platform in your hack. Each winning team member will receive a Google Home Mini, max 4 per team.
Best Domain Registered with Domain.com
Register a domain using Domain.com during the weekend. Each team may submit one entry per person on the team. Each winning team member will receive a Raspberry Pi & PiHut Essential Kit.
Best IoT Hack using a Qualcomm Device
Use a Qualcomm device, like the Dragonboard 410C, in your IoT project. Each winning team member will receive their own DragonBoard 410C.
Best Use of Wolfram Language
Projects will be judged on the sophistication and cleverness of their use of Wolfram Language as well as the criticality of the Wolfram tech stack to the realization of the project. Winners will recieve a year long membership to Wolfram Language as well as mentorship from the Wolfram team.