About the challenge

LaunchHacks is the perfect opportunity for tech-savvy high school students to showcase their coding skills. Get ready to develop cutting-edge applications and push the boundaries of innovation. We’ll provide you with access to the latest development tools and mentorship to guide you through the process. From web applications to mobile games, the possibilities are endless. Push your skills to the next level and join us for a weekend of coding, collaboration, and fun!

 

Get started

Get started with this hackathon to help create a base for your Computer Science knowledge and build real world projects.

Learn more at our website!

https://www.launchhacks.net/

Check out our last year's hackathon results here:

https://launchhacks-ii.devpost.com/

 

Prizes:

We'd also like to mention that unless specified, all awards are per person on a team. If a team has 4 people on it, no one will be left without a prize!


==FIRST PLACE==

Wolfram One Personal Edition & Wolfram Alpha Pro - 1 year Access

One year free .xyz domains!

Opportunity to work with us for future events

One Per Team Awards: Interview with the LaunchHacks team

Social Media post & showcase of your idea

Access to Axure RP Team Edition

==SECOND PLACE==

Wolfram One Personal Edition & Wolfram Alpha Pro - 1 year Access

One year free .xyz domains!

Opportunity to work with us for future events

One Per Team Awards: Social Media post & showcase of your idea

Access to Axure RP Team Edition

==THIRD PLACE==

Wolfram One Personal Edition & Wolfram Alpha Pro - 1 year Access

One year free .xyz domains!

Opportunity to work with us for future events

One Per Team Awards:

Access to Axure RP Team Edition

==TRACK AWARDS==

VERBWIRE TRACK AWARDS

Verbwire gives you the best way to build in Web3. With their API, you will be able to use their REST interface to get and build the best strategy with all the blockchain work done for you!

Learn more at this link:https://docs.verbwire.com/docs/verbwire-quickstart-guide API Documentation for Verbwire is here: https://docs.verbwire.com/reference/getting-started-with-your-api

Our Awards VERBWIRE :

Note - per person on team unless declared as otherwise These awards will be given to a number of teams that will be determined based on submission count

==Most Innovative use of Verbwire API==

$25 gift card from Verbwire

Wolfram One Personal Edition & Wolfram Alpha Pro - 1 year Access

One year free .xyz domains!

Opportunity to work with us for future events

==Creative use of Verbwire API==

Opportunity to work with us for future events

$5000 in Premium API Credits, across up to 20 teams.

This split will be determined based on submission count.

Requirements

What to Build

Any CS-related project of your chosing. 

What to Submit

A video that encapsulates your project, along with a link to the repository where your code is.

Hackathon Sponsors

Prizes

$58,012 in prizes
Verbwire Track - Best use of Verbwire
14 winners

Verbwire Track - Most Creative use of Verbwire
29 winners

1st Place
1 winner

2nd Place
1 winner

3rd Place
1 winner

4th Place
1 winner

5th Place
1 winner

6th Place
1 winner

Devpost Achievements

Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:

Judges

Poorva Rane

Poorva Rane
Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Apple

Supreet Kaur

Supreet Kaur
Assistant Vice President at Morgan Stanley

Dipanjan Haldar

Dipanjan Haldar
Senior Engineer at Cisco

Meera Ramachandran

Meera Ramachandran
Senior UX designer at Autodesk

Amol Dhaygude

Amol Dhaygude
Senior Data and Applied Scientist at Microsoft

Riddhi Zunjarrao

Riddhi Zunjarrao
Software Engineer at Apple

Hardik Shah

Hardik Shah
Senior UI Lead at Visa Inc.

Manav Trivedi
Product Manager 2, Microsoft Teams

Judging Criteria

  • Innovation
  • Creativity
  • Originality
  • Usability/Usefulness
  • Technical Skill

Questions? Email the hackathon manager

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