Brandeis University's annual "friendly" software and hardware hackathon!

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Hackathon Sponsors

Prizes

9 non-cash prizes
Judges' Pick
1 winner

Best High School Hack
1 winner

Best Beginner Hack
1 winner

Best Hardware Hack
1 winner

Best Machine Learning Hack (1st, 2nd, and 3rd place)
3 winners

Best Mobile/Web App Hack by TIBCO
1 winner

Best NLP Hack by Callminer
1 winner

Social Impact Award
1 winner

SPARK Award
1 winner

Devpost Achievements

Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:

Judges

Ian Roy

Ian Roy
Head of Brandeis MakerLab

Kirsten Stallings

Kirsten Stallings
Data Scientist at CallMiner

Indico Team

Indico Team
Intelligent Process Automation for Unstructured Content

Brandeis Innovation

Brandeis Innovation
SPARK Award

Judging Criteria

  • Technology
    How technically impressive was the hack? Was the technical problem the team tackled difficult? Did it use a particularly clever technique or did it use many different components? Did the technology involved make you go "wow"?
  • Design
    Did the team put thought into the user experience? How well designed is the interface?
  • Completion
    Does the hack work? Did the team achieve everything they wanted?
  • Learning
    Did the team stretch themselves? Did they try to learn something new? What kind of projects have they worked on before?
  • Creativity/Originality
    Did the team provide a new conceptualization or unique application of existing technology?
  • Category Adherence
    Hacks will be up for consideration for specific categories should they meet the conditions specified.

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