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.

Hackathon Sponsors

Prizes

$5,210 in prizes
MadHacks First Place
1 winner

Congratulations, you won MadHacks :D

MLH Winner Pin

MadHacks Second Place
1 winner

This project placed second place at MadHacks.

MLH Winner Pin

MadHacks Third Place
1 winner

This project placed third place at MadHacks.

MLH Winner Pin

MadHacks Hacker's Choice
1 winner

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
1 winner

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?
1 winner

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?
1 winner

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
1 winner

4x 64GB Amazon Fire HD

[Caterpillar] First Place
1 winner

4x Charging Desk Pad

[MLH] Best .Tech Domain Name
1 winner

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
1 winner

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
1 winner

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

David Teather
Crowdstrike

Jaso Sorensen

Jaso Sorensen
UW-Madison

Subasree Venkatsubhramaniyen

Subasree Venkatsubhramaniyen
Meta

Ahmed Shaaban

Ahmed Shaaban
UW-Madison

Abigale Kim

Abigale Kim
UW-Madison

Gary Dahl

Gary Dahl
UW-Madison

Andrew Gritsevskiy

Andrew Gritsevskiy
UW-Madison

Marc Renault

Marc Renault
UW-Madison

Mouna Kacem

Mouna Kacem
UW-Madison

Manolis Vlatakis

Manolis Vlatakis
UW-Madison

Jack Blake

Jack Blake
UW-Madison

Karu Sankaralingam

Karu Sankaralingam
UW-Madsion

Deb Deppeler

Deb Deppeler
UW-Madison

Erin Smith

Erin Smith
Capital One

Kann Tan

Kann Tan
Capital One

Elisa Rodriguez

Elisa Rodriguez
Capital One

Amitai Debiche

Amitai Debiche
TDS

Brian Stephan

Brian Stephan
TDS

Brian Ruppert

Brian Ruppert
TDS

Chris Musinsky

Chris Musinsky
TDS

Gaurav Kushwaha

Gaurav Kushwaha
Caterpillar

Dmitry Tyomkin

Dmitry Tyomkin
Caterpillar

Jenna Byron

Jenna Byron
Caterpillar

Josh Carrington

Josh Carrington
Caterpillar

Julie Tsai

Julie Tsai
Caterpillar

Neal Goyal

Neal Goyal
Major League Hacking

Judging Criteria

  • 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?

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