Open to beginners! Current college students are invited for Syracuse University's first 24 hour hackathon with check-in starting at 10:00 AM on Saturday, April 6th. Create anything from applications to websites. Work with a team or solo, and present your project the next day for the chance to win cool prizes!

 

 

SCHEDULE

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Saturday, April 6th:

10:00 am - 11:00 am Check-in/Registration - ATRIUM

11:00 am - 12 pm Opening Ceremonies - Link 105

12:00 pm - 12:30 pm Team Formation - Link 105

12:00 pm - HACKING BEGINS - ATRIUM

12:30 pm - 1:30 pm Lunch - ATRIUM

2:00 pm - 3:00 pm IBM Drone Lab - CST 1-218

3:30 pm - 4:30 pm Lockheed Martin Tech Talk - CST 1-218

4:45 pm - 5:30 pm Intro to Git  - CST 1-218

5:45 pm - 6:15 pm Intro to Sketch and UI - CST 1-218

6:30 pm - 7:30 pm Dinner - ATRIUM

7:30 pm - 8:30 pm MLH Build and Deploy Your First Website - CST 1-218 Cancelled

9:00 pm - 10:00 pm MLH Build Slack Apps - CST 1-218

12:00 am Midnight Surprise - ATRIUM


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Sunday, April 7th:

1:30 am - 2:30 am MLH Cup Stacking - ATRIUM

3:00 am - 4:00 am Yoga (Tentative) - ATRIUM

7:30 am - 8:30 am Breakfast - ATRIUM

10:00 am - 10:30 am Presentation Workshop - CST 1-218

11:30 am - 12:30 pm Lunch - ATRIUM

12:00 pm - PROJECT SUBMISSION DUE

12:30 pm  - 1:30 pm Expo - ATRIUM

1:30 pm - 2:00 pm Judging - CST 1-218

2:00 pm - 3:00 pm Closing Ceremonies - LSB 001

Eligibility

  • Open to all current college students.
  • No previous coding experience is required.
  • Teams can be up to 3-4 members, or you can work alone.

Hackathon Sponsors

Prizes

$4,352 in prizes
1st Place
4 winners

Choice of Amazon Fire 7 Tablets, Redragon Keyboards, or Google Homes

2nd Place
4 winners

Choice of Amazon Fire 7 Tablets, Redragon Keyboards, or Google Homes (Whichever are left after 1st)

3rd Place
4 winners

Choice of Amazon Fire 7 Tablets, Redragon Keyboards, or Google Homes (Whichever is left)

Best Education, Diversity, or Inclusion Hack
4 winners

Bluetooth Beanie Hats

Best Campus Safety Hack
4 winners

Tile Mates with Replaceable Battery

Best Hardware Hack
4 winners

Sphero Minis

Best Rookie Hack
4 winners

Raspberry Pis

Best Presentation
4 winners

Google Chromecasts

Lockheed Martin's Best Innovation
4 winners

Grab-bags

IBM's Call for Code: Best Use of IBM Cloud to Build a Solution for Natural Disaster Preparedness Resilience
4 winners

Drones

Devpost Achievements

Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:

How to enter

Click here to apply!

Judges

Jae Oh

Jae Oh
EECS Department Chair

Chilukuri Mohan

Chilukuri Mohan
EECS Professor

Garret Katz

Garret Katz
EECS Professor

Jeff Passetti

Jeff Passetti
iSchool & Newhouse Professor

Mofizur Rahman

Mofizur Rahman
Developer Advocate at IBM

Lockheed Martin Representatives

Lockheed Martin Representatives

Judging Criteria

  • Technical Complexity
    How high-tech/technically intricate is your project?
  • Creativity/Originality
    How inventive is your project?
  • Design
    How organized/aesthetically pleasing is your project?
  • Impact
    How does your project stand out next to others?

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