Challenge: This category is dedicated to supporting sustainability and conservation efforts. How can we live harmoniously with our planet?

First Place:
(1) Acer 23.8" AOPEN MV1 Gaming Monitor (per team member)
(1) 1 year of Wolfram|One Personal Edition (per team member)
(1) 1 year of Wolfram|Alpha Pro (per team member)

Second Place:
(1) Backbone Controller (per team member)
(1) 1 year of Wolfram|One Personal Edition (per team member)
(1) 1 year of Wolfram|Alpha Pro (per team member)

Challenge: This category aspires to address healthcare disparities. How do we support mental & physical well-being with accessible services?

Prize:
First Place:
(1) Divoom Speaker (per team member)
(1) 1 year of Wolfram|One Personal Edition (per team member)
(1) 1 year of Wolfram|Alpha Pro (per team member)

Second Place:
(1) Backbone Controller (per team member)
(1) 1 year of Wolfram|One Personal Edition (per team member)
(1) 1 year of Wolfram|Alpha Pro (per team member)

Challenge: This category aims to drive innovation for civil liberty and social justice. How can we uphold truth & order in a (mis)information age?

Prize:
First Place:
(1) IVY 2 Mini Photo Printer (per team member)
(1) 1 year of Wolfram|One Personal Edition (per team member)
(1) 1 year of Wolfram|Alpha Pro (per team member)

Second Place:
(1) Backbone Controller (per team member)
(1) 1 year of Wolfram|One Personal Edition (per team member)
(1) 1 year of Wolfram|Alpha Pro (per team member)

Challenge: This track encourages students to create apps that have a substantial impact on fostering a more effective and stimulating learning environment.

Prize:
First Place:
(1) Airpods (2nd Generation) (per team member)
(1) 1 year of Wolfram|One Personal Edition (per team member)
(1) 1 year of Wolfram|Alpha Pro (per team member)

Second Place:
(1) Backbone Controller (per team member)
(1) 1 year of Wolfram|One Personal Edition (per team member)
(1) 1 year of Wolfram|Alpha Pro (per team member)

Challenge: Hackathons are meant for everyone, especially our first-timers! We've created a prize category to reward teams composed of all first-time hackers.

Eligibility: This is the first hackathon for each member of your team.

Prize:
(1) Anker 622 Magnetic Battery (MagGo) (per team member)

Challenge: We're looking for projects that use AI/ML to solve a problem in a unique way!

Prize:
(1) Echo Show (per team member)

Challenge: Have a new paradigm for interaction design? Create a project that has an awesome user experience!

Prize:
(1) Wacom Drawing Tablet (per team member)

Challenge: Create something that benefits the UC Santa Cruz campus community!

Prize:
(1) Airfryer (per team member)

Each individual of multiple winning teams chosen by the event organizers will receive a one-year subscription to Wolfram|One Personal Edition and Wolfram|Alpha Pro. Award letter will be emailed post-event.

Each individual of multiple winning teams chosen by the Verbwire team and using the Verbwire API will receive Premium API Credits (up to $5000 across 20 teams). Credits will be issued by the Verbwire team post-event.

Hacker Guide: https://docs.google.com/document/d/17P0GTHhUltIuEgiz_0MpZZU70kjcZIN0cxyRVRI5G-s/edit?usp=sharing

Submission Guide: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WqBLzdQnnYAhtz3si3dELpD23HOHAMti/view?usp=sharin

Winning team using the Vectara platform will receive $1500 of Vectara credits. Credits will be issued by the Vectara team post-event.

Hacker Guide: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1MzGHcH7YaDOk0c1MIo9240JZ2-DdWQkj/view?usp=sharing

Winning team using the Axure platform will receive a 1-year subscription license of Axure RP Team Edition. Certificates will be emailed post-event.

Description: 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.

Prize: M5GO IoT Starter Kit

Description: 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.

Prize: Hack from Home Kit

Description: 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 and a battery pack for you and each member of your team!

Prize: Wireless Headphones & Battery Pack

Description: At Fidelity, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion are viewed as major keys to the success of their business, which is why they are challenging you to come up with innovative ways to create forward-thinking financial tech that promotes equality for all people! We want you to use your hacking skills to find and build solutions that put financial opportunities and resources within reach for all communities, creating accessible, sustainable, and/or inclusive solutions. The team with the best hack will win a Fidelity branded wireless charger for each team member!

Prize: Fidelity Branded Wireless Charger

Description: Cloudflare is one of the world’s largest networks enabling hackers like you to build, deploy, and deliver trusted applications, no matter where you are! With Cloudflare, you’ll have all the building blocks to create a full-stack application; from C3 instance deployment to object storage. You can even run machine learning models in the cloud and leverage your AI functionality via API requests using Cloudlfare’s Workers AI! Enjoy Cloudflare’’s generous free tier to get started at no cost! This weekend, we want you to build an AI Application utilizing Cloudflare’s numerous services for a chance to win Arduino Student Kits for you and your team!

Prize: Arduino Kit

Description: 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!

To give you some inspiration, we're sharing some educational and technical resources:
- This list of the most pressing issues educational leaders have around AI: http://hackp.ac/schmidt-LE-challenges
- An introduction to the emerging field of Learning Engineering
- A map of AI in education
- A recent competition series using LLMs for automated essay evaluation

Prize: TickTime Pomodoro Timer

Description: Using your preferred hardware or hardware emulator, build a hack for your chance to win a Grove Beginner Kit, with embedded Arduino Uno compatible board. Grove Beginner Kit for Arduino is one of the best Arduino Beginner Kit for beginners. It includes one Arduino compatible Board and 10 additional Arduino sensors and all in one-piece of PCB design.

New to hardware? No problem. We've put together some great resources for you to start hacking with the Grove Beginner Kit!
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- Seeed Grove Beginner Kit product page
- Grove Beginner Kit Manual
- Arduino IDE download
- The Easiest Way to Get Started with Arduino (Video Walk-through)

Prize: Grove Beginner Kit, with embedded Arduino Uno compatible board

Prize: (1) Smiski Glow-in-the-dark Bobblehead (per team member)

Prize: (1) Squishmallow (per team member)

Prize: (1) Airtag (per team member)