About the challenge
Get ready to ignite your creativity at HackRPI X! This year we are hosting the 10th annual intercollegiate hackathon completely organized by RPI students. This year’s theme is “Change the World” and we’re excited to invite you to a weekend full of innovation and cutting edge technology November 4th-5th. Register now at https://hackrpi.com/.
Requirements
What to Build
Our theme “Change the World” is open ended to provide maximum creative freedom. Any and all projects will be considered during the final judging phase for the best overall hack! There are also specialized prize categories for specific themes, as well as sponsor prizes.
What to Submit
Once you have your project, you’ll be submitting it here on devpost and giving a brief presentation at our project showcase. You must submit both the devpost project and give a 2-4 minute presentation, once you submit on devpost you can keep editing right up to the submission deadline, so don’t wait! Submit early and you can keep making changes until 12pm on Sunday Nov. 5th. For devpost, you’ll need to register for this event, upload a project, and then submit it to our event. For more information we recommend this guide: https://help.devpost.com/hc/en-us/articles/360054999651-How-to-enter-a-submission
Prizes
#1 Best Hack
$1,500
MLH Winner Pin
#2 Hack
$750
MLH Winner Pin
Best AI Hack
$400
Best Education Hack
$400
Cyber Security Hack
$400
Best Sustainability Hack
$200
Best Mobile Hack
$200
Best Data Science Hack
$100
Best Startup
$200
Best First Time Hack
$100
Best in Patient Safety Tech
$1,000
The Wolfram Award
$375 in cash value per person
Best Use of Google Cloud (2x)
Google Cloud Backpack
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. Learn more about the tools and opportunities with Google Cloud by joining the Google Cloud Student Innovators program - goo.gle/student-innovators. Winners will receive a Google Cloud branded backpack!
Be sure to redeem your Google Cloud Credits as soon as possible through the Google Cloud Credit Form. Use the promo code in your pre-event email to access the form!
Best Use of MongoDB Atlas
M5GO IoT Starter Kit
MongoDB Atlas takes the leading modern database and makes it accessible in the cloud! Get started with a $50 credit for students or sign up for the Atlas free forever tier (no credit card required). Along with a suite of services and functionalities, you'll have everything you need to manage all of your data, and you can get a headstart with free resources from MongoDB University! Build a hack using MongoDB Atlas for a chance to win a M5GO IoT Starter Kit for you and each member of your team.
Most Creative Use of GitHub
GitHub Swag
GitHub is one of the best ways to collaborate, push code, get feedback, and show the world what you’ve built during a hackathon. To take it a step further, GitHub is now offering you access to industry tools, events & learning resources through something called GitHub Global Campus. Win this weekend’s Most Creative Use of GitHub prize category, first by signing up for GitHub Global Campus and second by using a GitHub repository to host your hackathon project’s code! Make sure your use of GitHub stands out with a detailed ReadMe page, meaningful pull requests and collaboration history, and even a GitHub pages deployment!
Best Domain Name from GoDaddy Registry
Hack from Home kit
GoDaddy Registry is giving you everything you need to be the best hacker no matter where you are. Register your domain name with GoDaddy Registry for a chance to win a Hack from Home Kit! Each Kit contains wireless earbuds, blue light glasses, selfie ring light and a pouch for easy transport.
Best Use of MATLAB
Wireless YoYo Speaker
MATLAB and Simulink are computational tools used at over 100,000 businesses, government and university sites in over 190 countries. Use MATLAB and/or Simulink exclusively or integrate them into another tool for your next hack to win an exclusive MathWorks branded Wireless YoYo Speaker! You can also claim a free MATLAB software license to get started.
Best Use of AI in Education
TickTime Pomodoro Timer
Artificial Intelligence (AI) models, such as large language models (LLMs), are transforming how we interact with computers. During this weekend's hackathon, we want you to apply AI towards improving education to produce tools that support the quality, accessibility, and equitability of learning in today's classrooms. You can use AI to address any challenge teachers and students face, such as curriculum planning, question selection, teacher training, content generation, personalized feedback, automated grading and more.
For this challenge, we encourage you to draw on your own educational experiences and propose technical solutions to problems you've regularly encountered as students — after all, you are the best to know where our education system needs improvement. Design impactful and effective AI tools for education for a chance to win a TickTime Pomodoro Timer!
Best Use of TinyMCE
3D Printing Pen
TinyMCE is a rich-text editor that allows you to create formatted content within a hacker-friendly interface. Adding a Rich Text Editor component has never been easier! Alongside functionality like bold, italics, underlines, hyperlinks, or titles (to name a few), the editor also allows users to enable HTML tags, MarkDown or CSS. TinyMCE even gives you the ability to edit your text elements directly with no code, similar to the way you would edit a word document.
TinyMCE also has dozens of plugins that allow developers to customize their user’s experience. From implementing accessibility checkers, autocorrect, and enhanced image editing to utilizing emoticons, adding responsive design with auto resize and even a ChatGPT AI Assistant, there’s a plugin for every use case imaginable!
Signup for TinyMCE for a free trial and get started today, no credit card required! To qualify for the Best Use of TinyMCE prize category, be sure to render the editor with a Tiny Cloud account and use at least 3 open source plugins and 2 premium plugins in your project, for a chance to win a 3D Printing Pen for you and each of your team members!
Best Use of Soroban
Power Bank
Soroban is an open-source Rust-based developer-friendly smart contracts platform built for scalability. It is interoperable with the layer-1 Stellar blockchain and benefits from the network’s existing global reach and access. With Soroban, developers have the freedom to create applications as borderless as the internet.
Learning how to build Decentralized Applications (DAPPs) using Soroban is easy and fun. Simply follow along with the DAPPs on Soroban challenge by forking either of the Crowdfund or Payment repositories, and make the project your own with personalized customizations! The challenge link even has some simple walk-throughs available to help you get started.
Remember to customize your DAPP using Soroban this weekend for a chance to win a Power Bank for you and each of your teammates!
Best Web3 Hack
Best Game
$20 gift card and SWAG
Devpost Achievements
Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:
Judges
John Sturman
Brian Callahan
Richard Plotka
Oshani Seneviratne
Konstantin Kuzmin
Chris Baudouin
Major League Hacking
Judging Criteria
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Creativity
How original is your hack? Is this a novel idea or something that many people came across? -
Practicality & Utility
What problem that you want to solve? How applicable is your hack to problems we're facing today? -
Technical Difficulty
How technically challenging is it? Which technologies did you use? -
Effort
Did the team genuinely commit time and effort to this product? -
User Experience
What impression do you get from the hack? Does it provide for a smooth user experience? -
Future Plans
Does it have ways it can be improved upon for the future?
Questions? Email the hackathon manager
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