MadHacks Fall 2024 is Wisconsin's Premier Hackathon
Requirements
What to Submit
You must submit a GitHub (or other Git hosting site) repository or Zip file if you must.
Prizes
MadHacks First Place
Congratulations, you won MadHacks :D
MLH Winner Pin
MadHacks Second Place
This project placed second place at MadHacks.
MLH Winner Pin
MadHacks Third Place
This project placed third place at MadHacks.
MLH Winner Pin
MadHacks Hacker's Choice
Congratulations! You were selected by your fellow hackers as most deserving of the Hacker's Choice award.
4x $25 dollar Amazon gift cards
[Fetch] First Place, Live Rewarded
Reward: Will be mailed to you after the event.
The project that exemplifies users' ability to Live Rewarded with the underlying idea that the project should add value to the user's day-to-day life.
[Capital One] How Will You Reimagine Banking?
4x $200 Gift Cards
Our Prize question is: How will you reimagine banking? Capital One's track challenges hackers to develop the Best Financial Hack. Participants will harness their creativity and technical skills to design and innovate tools that will help with anything related to finance.
[Capital One] 2nd Place, How Will You Reimagine Banking?
4x $50 Gift Cards
Our Prize question is: How will you reimagine banking? Capital One's track challenges hackers to develop the Best Financial Hack. Participants will harness their creativity and technical skills to design and innovate tools that will help with anything related to finance.
[TDS] First Place
4x 64GB Amazon Fire HD
[Caterpillar] First Place
4x Charging Desk Pad
[MLH] Best .Tech Domain Name
Prize: Blue Snowball Microphone and a Free .Tech Domain Name for up to 10 years!
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!
[MLH] Best use of Auth0
Prize: Wireless Headphones
Auth0 wants your applications to be secure!
Why spend hours building features like social sign-in, Multi-Factor Authentication, and passwordless log-in when you can enable them through Auth0 straight out of the box? Auth0 is free to try, doesn’t require a credit card, and allows for up to 7,000 free active users and unlimited log-ins.
Make your new account today and use any of the Auth0 APIs for a chance to win a pair of wireless headphones for you and each member of your team!
[MLH] Best AI Project with Databricks Open Source
Prize: Assorted Lego Sets
Databricks is an open analytics platform that helps you build, deploy, and maintain large scale data & AI solutions!
Whether you’re working with large language models using Mosaic AI, storing data with Databricks Data Lakes, or deploying GenAI powered applications using MLflow, Databricks Open Source software has the tools you need to make your hackathon project state of the art.
Build an AI powered project utilizing Databricks Open Source projects like the ones mentioned, or Databricks friendly Open Source projects like LanceDB and Llama Index, for a chance to win some amazing prizes for you and your teammates! Check out the following link to see all qualifying Databricks' Open Source technologies.
Devpost Achievements
Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:
Judges
David Teather
Crowdstrike
Jaso Sorensen
UW-Madison
Subasree Venkatsubhramaniyen
Meta
Ahmed Shaaban
UW-Madison
Abigale Kim
UW-Madison
Gary Dahl
UW-Madison
Andrew Gritsevskiy
UW-Madison
Marc Renault
UW-Madison
Mouna Kacem
UW-Madison
Manolis Vlatakis
UW-Madison
Jack Blake
UW-Madison
Karu Sankaralingam
UW-Madsion
Deb Deppeler
UW-Madison
Erin Smith
Capital One
Kann Tan
Capital One
Elisa Rodriguez
Capital One
Amitai Debiche
TDS
Brian Stephan
TDS
Brian Ruppert
TDS
Chris Musinsky
TDS
Gaurav Kushwaha
Caterpillar
Dmitry Tyomkin
Caterpillar
Jenna Byron
Caterpillar
Josh Carrington
Caterpillar
Julie Tsai
Caterpillar
Neal Goyal
Major League Hacking
Judging Criteria
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Completeness
Does the project have all the necessary parts to be functional? -
Creativity
Did the creators come up with an innovative idea or a unique approach to an existing idea? -
Presentation
Is the project aesthetically pleasing? Is the user interface easy to use? -
Technology
Did the creators challenge themselves by using sophisticated methods and/or technologies?
Questions? Email the hackathon manager
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