Introducing FutureHacks! FutureHacks is a free online coding competition where teams of up to 4 people create a project that they will present to a panel of judges for a chance to win cool prizes. This is THE event for 7-15 year old students to attend! FutureHacks will let you apply your skills to real-world problems as well as collaborate with many like-minded individuals too! FutureHacks is focused on bringing the best experience to you as a programmer, computer scientist, and problem solver! Don’t know much programming but still want to attend? Don’t worry! We will have fun and engaging coding demos that teach the basics of programming. For more information, check out our website: futurehacks.net. If you have signed up for competition, please follow the hackathon guide: https://futurehacks.net/guide
Eligibility
Participants must be 7 - 15 years old. Groups are permitted, but a maximum of 4 participants per group. Each group can submit as many projects as they want.
Requirements
Your project files, which could include Scratch Programs, Scratch + AI, Python, or Java. This includes .java, .py, and scratch files.
All groups will be asked to present their project to a panel of judges. They will be graded on this rubric: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yL466_SoTQ5rtk-KxnjKDbWpQLCiTVnZ9DyKtM6BwiI/edit?usp=sharing
Prizes
Arduino Kit
each participant in group gets one
Battery Bank
each participant in group gets one
Amazon Gift Cards
each participant in group gets one
Nitendo Switch Lite
each participant in group gets one
Headphones
each participant in group gets one
Gaming Keyboard
each participant in group gets one
Devpost Achievements
Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:
Judges
Wanying Ding, PH.D.
JP Morgan
Samuel Jackson
Student / University of Georgia
Li Liu
Facebook
Shuangning Liu
Apple
Yang Liu
Apple
Sokona Mangane
Student / Bates University
Alejandro Marquez Cervantes
Student / UC Berkeley
Trevor McSharry
Student / University of Tenessee
Brady Munroe
Student / Carnegie Mellon University
Jorge Orbay
Google Brain
Qing Ping, PH.D.
Amazon
Shaky Salimjonova
Student / Princeton University
Vikram Sharma
Student / Duke University
Ye Wang
VP of Engineering, Agilis Chemicals, Inc
Bing Wu
Waymo
Alex Yang
Google
Miranda Zhang
Fintech
Qiang Zhang, PH.D.
AI
Buqian Zheng
Google
Benjamin C
member / aigolearning
Steven Chi
member / aigolearning
Sriram Kompella
member / aigolearning
Daniel Shen
member / aigolearning
Yuying Wang
member / aigolearning
Annie Li
member / aigolearning
Chintan Vajariya
member / aigolearning
Christina Kaddouh
member / aigolearning
Michael Walker
student / Digipen Institute
Dr. Zhi Wei
Professor / NJIT
Andy Zhou
Georgia Tech
Siddarth Narayanan
member / aigolearning
Angela Chen
member / aigolearning
Judging Criteria
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Creativity
How unique is the project? Does it fit the theme? -
Code
Does the code run? Are there any bugs? -
Presentation
Does the group have a good delivery of their ideas? -
Q&A Session
Can the group answer the judges' questions?
Questions? Email the hackathon manager
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