About Us

We unite students of all backgrounds to come together and create meaningful hacks that serve our community. Come join us from March 24-31 to solve real on-campus problems.

Check us out at https://hackduke.org/

Apps Challenge

This is a challenge based hackathon in which teams have a week to build a working solution for given prompts (to be revealed). The problem statements will be centered on improving life on campus at Duke specifically, with the intention to build solutions that everyday students or other Duke-related people can use. More information here.

Requirements

Submissions are due on Devpost by Saturday 5:00 pm and editing closes at 6:00 pm.

Only one submission is required per team (but make sure to add all team members to the submission). You must include the following in your submission:

  • Short video demo of your project (max 5 minutes)
  • GitHub link to all source code (alternatives like GitLab also fine)
  • Written description of project

Your team must be present for in-person/live demos and judging unless specifically communicated with the organizing team (reach out to hackers@hackduke.org). 

Hackathon Sponsors

Prizes

$700 in prizes
Winner's Prize
1 winner

To the best project go the spoils. We also will work with the winning team to host and deploy their solution for public use on Duke's campus!

Runner-Up
1 winner

Devpost Achievements

Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:

Judges

HackDuke Judges

HackDuke Judges

Judging Criteria

  • Problem Statement and Solution
    Is this a real problem? Does the solution address the problem? How fleshed out is the solution? Is the idea business-sound? Would there be demand?
  • Implementation and Functionality
    How complete is the product/application? Is there a working demo? Does it function as described?
  • Technical Sophistication
    Is the project advanced technically? We want to see if the project has put in the effort to develop something beyond a simple CRUD app and/or API calls.
  • Design
    How does the product feel? Was the UX/design done well?
  • Presentation
    Does the presentation explain the project well? Are there key aspects of the product they failed to address?
  • Wow Factor
    room for a flexible wow factor criteria

Questions? Email the hackathon manager

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