Hack K-State is a 36-hour hackathon at Kansas State University organized by students, for students. Our organizing team works year-round to put on the event with tasks such as gathering sponsors, planning events for the weekend, and figuring out logistics with the venue, just to name a few.
Hack K-State is one of the few hackathons in the region that brings high school and college students together under the same event! Hack K-State is open to high school students, undergraduate college students, and graduate students from any school (in-state and out-of-state!). Some restrictions apply, see rules for details
Requirements
There is a LOT of vareity of inventions that come out of Hack K-State. Teams with varying level of experiences and backgrounds come together to make their ideas come to life. There are many free tools and hardware accessible during Hack K-State that the hackers can use. From software to hardware and anything in between, your imagination is the limit! Of course you are also encouraged to bring any tech along with you to make your hack happen!
Prizes
Best Use of Google Cloud
Build your hackathon project with a suite of secure storage, powerful compute, and integrated data analytics products provided by Google Cloud. See full list of products here: g.co/cloud. Learn more about the tools and opportunities with Google Cloud by joining the Google Cloud Student Innovators program - goo.gle/student-innovators. Winners will receive a Google Cloud branded backpack!
Best Domain Name from GoDaddy Registry
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.
Best Use of Hedera
Hedera is a next generation blockchain technology that’s accessible from familiar programming languages like Java and JavaScript. Their goal? To make Web3 development even more accessible to hackers like you! Build a project on Hedera's test network for a chance to win amazing Compact Mechanical Keyboards for you and your team!
Best Accessibility Hack sponsored by Fidelity
At Fidelity, accessibility is viewed as a major key to the success of their business, which is why they are challenging you to come up with innovative ways to make tech more accessible! We want you to use your hacking skills to find and build solutions that put opportunities and resources within reach for all communities. The team with the best accessibility hack will win a Fidelity branded wireless charger for each team member!
Best Use of Circle
With Circle, you can embed secure wallets into your app in just minutes. Circle Web3 wallets are compatible with multiple blockchains and are supported by over a dozen programming language SDKs. Circle’s programmable wallets will enable you to add secure transactions to your hackathon project using RESTful APIs, with options for both user and developer controlled transactions. If your hackathon idea involves in-app purchases, user to user payments, app to user payments, or all of the above, integrating Circle programmable wallets to your Web2 or Web3 tech-stack may be the perfect solution.
Best Use of Flow
Flow is a public, decentralized, layer-one blockchain designed for creating limitless Web3 apps for mainstream adoption. Flow empowers hackers like you to build decentralized applications and share them with the world. Write safe and readable smart contracts with Cadence and explore the potential of composable, on-chain logic. With SDKs in multiple languages like Javascript, Go, Kotlin, Python, Swift, Unity, you can jump in and start your hack using Flow this weekend for a chance to win $200 USD worth of FLOW token for each member of your team!
Best Use of Taipy
Taipy is a powerful yet easy to use open-source Python library for creating full stack web applications! If you’re a Python developer, this library enables you to build interactive and dynamic graphical user interfaces and support them with data-driven backends. All of these functionalities are just a pip install taipy away and can cut your development time in half! Use Taipy in your hackathon project for a chance to win a set of Wireless Headphones for you and each of your team members, as well as a chance to have your project featured on the Taipy website!
Most Creative Use of Redis Cloud
Show us how you’ve used Redis Cloud in a way that showcases your unique and specific data structure needs and each member of your team could win a personal, portable Redis Stack server IOT hardware unit to keep developing on the go. Find out why Stack Overflow Developers have voted Redis their “most loved and admired” noSQL database for years-running by rolling Redis into your MLH Hackathon project.
Best Overall Hack - First Place
Best overall hack at Hack K-State.
Best Overall Hack - Second Place
Second place project at Hack K-State.
Redstone Engineer
Best hardware hack at Hack K-State.
ACM - Best Education Hack
Best education hack at Hack K-State.
Game Dev - Best Video Game Hack
Best video game at Hack K-State.
Cyber Defense Club - Most Secure Software Hack
This award is given to the most secure hack at Hack K-State.
AI Club - Best AI Hack
This prize is given to the hack that best utilizes AI at Hack K-State
Diversity In Computing - Most Inclusive Hack
Most inclusive Hack at Hack K-State
Devpost Achievements
Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:
Judges
Nathan Bean
Kansas State University
Jorge Valenzuela
Kansas State University
Judge1
Civic Plus
Judge2
Civic Plus
Judge3
Civic Plus
Judge4
Civic Plus
Julie Thornton
Kansas State University
Safia Malallah
Kansas State University
Judging Criteria
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Technology
How technically impressive was the hack? Was the technical problem the team tackled difficult? Did it use a particularly clever technique or did it use many different components? Did the technology involved make you go "Wow"? -
Design
Did the team put thought into the user experience? How well designed is the interface? For a website, this might be about how beautiful the CSS or graphics are. For a hardware project, it might be more about how good the human-computer interaction is. -
Completion
Does the hack work? Did the team achieve everything they wanted? -
Learning
Did the team stretch themselves? Did they try to learn something new? What kind of projects have they worked on before? If a team which always does VR projects decides to switch up and try doing a mobile app instead, that exploration should be rewarded.
Questions? Email the hackathon manager
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