Looking to enhance your resume and boost your skills? Want to gain hands-on experience working on real-world problems alongside industry mentors? How about the chance to win cash prizes for your input and ideas?
UNC Charlotte students from all majors, backgrounds, and experience levels will come together during the weekend of October 18-20 to share ideas and create solutions. In a low-stakes environment, students will collaborate to design, develop, and pitch ideas that address real-world challenges.
Challenges include:
- Securing Cyberspace: Supply Chain Security, Digital Trust, and Financial Security
- Digital Transformation: AI, Personalized Learning, Virtual Reality, and Health Information (e.g., sharing personalized health data for the public good, AI assistance for school visits)
- Social Good and Public Service: Protecting the unhoused during extreme heat, Career Readiness for High School and University Students, Building Community through Technology, and Mental Health Solutions
- Sustainability: Food Insecurity, Wishcycling, Making Solar Energy Economical, Access to Clean Water, Restoring and Improving Urban Infrastructure
- Gaming and Entertainment
- OPEN Category: Have your own idea? Submit an overview to the committee. This category is limited, so submit your idea as soon as possible.
Resources will be available to help participants focus on the problem they’d like to tackle during the Golden Hack: Impact Weekend.
Requirements
End products will vary depending on your track. Some may be hardware, others software, or even a well-defined and developed plan.
The final product will be a video submission, no longer than 3 minutes and 59 seconds, covering the following components.
- What challenge or problem are you solving?
- Who are you solving this problem for?
- What is your solution?
- Why is your solution different?
- What value are you bringing to the customer?
- Demo of your solution
- Your team and what you have learned
Prizes
3 Prize Categories to be Awarded
Devpost Achievements
Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:
Judges
Demi Clark
Mohamed Shehab
Kyoung- Hee Kim
Dreu Dixon
Lashawn Boulware
Terence Fagan
Owen Mitchell
Krista Saral
Brad Yeckley
Judging Criteria
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How would you rate the originality of the project?
Project has unique concept compared to existing solutions. Demonstrates awareness of current market trends. -
How would you rate the learning of the project?
Team members acquired new skills, competencies or expertise. Knowledge gained was effectively transferred. -
How would you rate the presentation of the project?
Content is clear and easy to understand. Focused on key points and objectives. -
How would you rate the usefulness of the project?
Project effectively addresses a problem. Project effectively satisfies users. -
How would you rate the execution of the project?
Project objectives and goals defined. Team worked effectively and collaboratively.
Questions? Email the hackathon manager
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