nwPlus team choice award

Show us your take on cybersecurity! Build a creative security-focused hackathon project that keeps simplicity and usability at its core. Submit your project for a chance to win a $100 CAD Best Buy gift card - so you can do more of what you’re passionate about - as well as a 30-minute chat with a member of 1Password’s Emerging Talent team!

Prize: $100 CAD Best Buy gift card per each team member + recruiter chat + 1 free year of 1Password For Families

At PeerSupport.io, we aim to empower those in the Healthcare industry through
the meaningful work we do. Include an aspect of health & wellness into your
project to be considered for our prize! Health & Wellness can come in many forms,
and we encourage you to explore this however you feel fit. We are excited to see
your submissions!

Prize: 1-1 with our Chief of Staff, Sarah Johnstone

From development and testing to deployment and monitoring, implementing DevSecOps best practices lets you deliver better code, faster. Using new or existing application code, demonstrate a complete CI/CD pipeline that builds and deploys an application while incorporating tools and best practices such as:

- GitHub pre-commit / pre-push hooks, branch protection rules, automated security and secret scanning (e.g. GitHub Advanced Security, Dependabot)
- Automated static or dynamic security tests
- Automated test suites with code coverage reports
- Pipeline secret management
- Anything that improves the security, velocity, or reliability of the software process
- Feedback loops/reliable error notifications during build process

Prize: 4 amazon gift cards ($50 each gift card) for the winning team

As a certified B Corp, Redbrick has made a formal commitment to creating positive change, growing our sustainable impact, and giving back to our community. We’re excited about the opportunity to support cmd-f and encourage more women and people from diverse backgrounds to pursue and succeed in tech.

The tech industry has the same carbon footprint as the entire aviation industry – and it’s growing fast. We want you to consider how your project contributes to or helps address your digital carbon footprint. A digital carbon footprint refers to the amount of greenhouse gasses emitted browsing the internet, streaming videos, sending emails, and storing data in the cloud.

We believe that innovation and sustainability go hand in hand, and we cannot wait to see what the next generation of tech is capable of.

Prize:
Fresh Prep gift card – because meal kits help reduce food waste with fresh, delicious and local pre-portioned ingredients.
A coffee chat with our head of recruitment – an opportunity to get advice, feedback on your resume, and explore future possibilities in tech.

If you are interested in further developing your project idea, UBC's CS department will be selecting a team a limited number of teams they think will benefit from mentorship to continue working on their project. The team will continue their hackathon project during this incubation program with the guidance of industry mentors. The program is only available to UBC students. The CS department will also offer prizes and awards to those teams who manage to bring their ideas to fruition! The selection to participate in the Diversity in CS Project Hub will be the prize. There will be no further ‘winners’. Make sure to opt-in to this prize category if your team would like to continue working on your project post-hackathon!

Submit your project through the Google Forms if you want to be considered:
https://forms.gle/WD4REmEGSgHA3bCn8

Prize: Mentorship from industry professionals to continue working on your hackathon project and potential to win prizes/awards if your project idea comes to fruition!

**Eligibility**: Note that the majority of your team must be current or prospective UBC CS students. You will also need to be available for the whole summer at least 3 months between May 1 and August 31, 2025 to continue working on your project.

It’s time to push the boundaries of what's possible with AI using Google Gemini. Check out the Gemini API to build AI-powered apps that make your friends say WHOA. So, what can Gemini do for your hackathon project?

Cloudflare is one of the world’s largest networks enabling hackers like you to build, deploy, and deliver trusted applications, no matter where you are! With Cloudflare, you’ll have all the building blocks to create a full-stack application; from C3 (create Cloudflare command line) instance deployment to object storage. You can even run GenAI (LLMs, text to image, Voice to text etc..) in the cloud and leverage your AI functionality via API requests using Cloudlfare’s Workers AI! Enjoy Cloudflare’s generous free tier to get started at no cost! This weekend, we want you to build an AI Application utilizing Cloudflare’s numerous services for a chance to win Arduino Kits for you and your team!

MongoDB Atlas takes the leading modern database and makes it accessible in the cloud! Build a hack using MongoDB Atlas for a chance to win a M5GO IoT Starter Kit for you and each member of your team.

Make your Team's Achievements timeless: Win a .Tech Domain Name for up to 10 years to Showcase and Expand Your Project, Plus 4 Blue Snowball Mics for Effortless Collaboration on Zoom, empowering you to build even more cool things together! Win a Blue Snowball Microphone & a Free .Tech Domain Name for up to 10 years!

Want to take your Python skills to the next level? Streamlit is an open-source Python library that makes it easy to share and build custom web apps for machine learning, data science, and more. Instead of writing Python scripts without a UI, you can create a beautiful web app, complete with widgets and data visualizations, and deploy it for free to the Streamlit Community Cloud. Hack with Streamlit this weekend for your chance to win an Arduino Tiny ML Kit for you and each member of your team.

Participants use Filmora to edit a video of their hackathon journey to qualify for the $100 cash or gift card prize. This can be a recap, behind-the-scenes footage, or any creative way to showcase their project.