About GrizzHacks
GrizzHacks is a beginner friendly and open ended Hackathon where students devise, build, and present a project over a 24 hour period. While you're allowed to make anyhting you think of, we will have some prizes set aside for projects created in specific domains.
Prizes
1st Overall
Nintendo Switch for each member of the winning team
2nd Overall
Beats Headphones for each member of the winning team
3rd Overall
Nespresso Machine for each member of the winning team
Automotive Track Winner
Drone for each member of the winning team
AI/ML Track Winner
Mechanical Keyboard for each member of the winning team
Fintech Track Winner
JBL4 Speaker for each member of the winning team
Interactive Media Track Winner
Gaming Monitor for each member of the winning team
Think Outside the Pizza Box Winner
Logitech Webcam for each member of the winning team
Best Beginner Hack
Blue Yeti Microphone for each member of the winning team
Best UI/UX
Drawing Tablet for each member of the winning team
Best use of NextJS
Vercel Hat/Stickers and The Key V2 Macropad for each member of the winning team
Best Use of Auth0
Wireless Headphones & Battery Pack
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!
Best .Tech Domain Name
Blue Snowball Microphone & a Free .Tech Domain Name for Life!
Make your Team's Achievements timeless: Win a .Tech Domain Name for Life 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!
Best Use of Kintone
Breadboard IoT Kit
Still not sure what backend to use in your hack? Kintone is a low-code web database that lets you set up your backend in minutes. It's beginner friendly, allowing you to customize your Kintone app using nothing but JavaScript and HTML. If you're interested in IoT, your team can snag a FREE microcontroller by signing up for Kintone and visiting the MLH table. If you use Kintone in your hackathon project, you'll have a chance to win a breadboard IoT kit to power up the hardware hacking for each member of your team!
Best Use of AI in Education
TickTime Pomodoro Timer
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!
Devpost Achievements
Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:
Judges
Steve Wilson
OU AI Professor
Vyas Bhuman
Application Developer at Credit Acceptance
Pankaj Chobharkar
365 Retail Markets
Ashley Copeland
365 Retail Markets
Tara Chapman
365 Retail Markets
Andrew Dimmer
Software Engineer at Amazon/ Previous GrizzHacks Coordinator
Kate Bowers
OU Professor
Hua Ming
OU Professor
Damilola Alao
OU Professor
Arpan Rughani
Intrepid control / GrizzHacks Founder
Hemanth Tadepalli
Rohit Timmagi
GM / Previous GrizzHacks Coordinator
Aziman
MLH Prizes
Matt Claysen
Little Caesars
Brian Malooley
Little Caesars
James Swarz
Little Caesars
Julia Wang
Comerica Bank
Jim Cole
Comerica Bank
Aleksandra Medina
Frich
Alex Muszyn
Whisker
Parker Goby
Whisker
Judging Criteria
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Delivery and Expression
This is how well your project is presented during your demo. A good presentation should be easy to follow and highlight what your project does, the issue it aims to solve, and the technical concepts that make up your solution. -
Idea Innovation
No matter how much of your project you complete, your idea still matters a ton. The judges will score you on how novel your project is, what it aims to solve, and the unique way in which you chose to implement your solution. -
Technical Complexity
Your judges are all technically inclined and will be impressed by some advanced technical implementation. Remember though, our judges focus on quality > quantity. 10,000 lines of code won't impress them if the parts don't work together seamlessly. -
UI / UX
Judges will look at how attractive and user friendly your app is. We understand not all projects have UI's so this won't hurt your overall score if not present (though we do have a prize for best UI/UX) -
Impact
Considers the potential for the project to effect meaningful change, prioritizing solutions that offer significant benefits to individuals, communities, or broader society when scaled. -
Track Relevance
Judges will score how closely the project aligns with the selected tracks problem statement. If no track is selected, this will not hurt your score but will be used when selecting track winners
Questions? Email the hackathon manager
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