HackED Beta is a welcoming event that provides a great learning environment for students from any program of study or school (including our high school friends!) Whether or not you have programmed before does not matter! We want you here!

Mentorship

Mentors from cool startups in Edmonton and grad students of the University of Alberta will be available throughout the event to help students along with their projects.

Eligibility

Participants must meet the two requirements unless otherwise allowed by a organizer of HackED Beta.

  1. Be a student in high school or in their 1st, 2nd or 3rd year of undergraduate studies.
  2. HackED Beta must be their first or second hackathon.

Requirements

All code must be written at the Hackathon and be publicly available on GitHub.

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Prizes

$CAD 575 in prizes
Top 3 Teams
3 winners

Awarded to the three best projects at HackED Beta.

Servus Best FinTech Project
1 winner

Awarded to the team with the financial technology project.

Each team member will get a Moxie slim power bank and a $25 Best Buy gift card.

Devpost Achievements

Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:

Judges

Rachel Chung

Rachel Chung
Director Quality Engineering - Resolver

Bianca Angotti

Bianca Angotti
IDX

Gail Stepanik-Keber

Gail Stepanik-Keber
Purpose and Innovation Officer - Servus Credit Union

Forrest Zeisler

Forrest Zeisler
CTO and Founder - Jobber

TBD

TBD
Intuit

Judging Criteria

  • Originality
    How unique and innovative is the solution?
  • Practicality
    How useful is the solution for the problem it was designed to solve?
  • Technicality
    How well did the teams overcome problems they encountered?
  • WOW Factor
    Are you blown away?

Questions? Email the hackathon manager

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