HackUMBC gives you 24 hours to learn new skills, make friends, create your wildest idea, and share it with the world. Whether you wish to build a website, dabble with Photoshop, create a dancing robot, or develop a game, it's up to you to decide what to learn!
Website: https://hackumbc.org/
Need some APIs, Port Covington has a few: www.stae.co/hack-umbc/
Need some APIs, Wolfram also has a few: https://account.wolfram.com/redeem/HackUMBCBaltimore2018
Prizes
Grand Prize
Oculus Rift VR
2nd Place
Bose Quiet Comfort 35 Series 2 Headphones
3rd Place
GoPro Hero 7 White
Most Unique
SNES Classic
Best Design
Wacom Intuo Drawing Tablets
Best use of Algolia
Casio CA-506C-5A Calculator Watch for each team member
Best use of Google Cloud Platform
Google Home Minis for each team member
Best Domain Name from Domain.com
Raspberry Pi & PiHut Essential Kit for each team member
Best use of Authorize.net
LS20 Gaming Headsets for each team member
Best IoT Hack Using a Qualcomm Device
410C Dragonboard for each team member
Best use of HERE.com
Hacker gear and swag from HERE.com
[Weekly Challenge] Best Chat Bot using Botkit & Cisco Webex Teams
Power banks for each team member
[Weekly Challenge] Best use of Clarifai’s API
Hacker gear from Clarifai for each team member
[Weekly Challenge] Snap Kit Weekly Challenge
Spectacles by Snapchat for each team member
[Weekly Challenge] Best Social Good Hack from Fidelity
$50 Gift Cards from Fidelity for each team member
[Booz Allen Hamilton] Best Cyber security focused hack
Bose Quiet Comfort 25 headphones
[Freedom Consulting] Most Innovative & Ready to Use Community Focused Application with a Sharp UI/UX
Lego Sets and Everything is Awesome Lego Movie pack
[JP Morgan] Best Hack for Social Good
Bose Soundlink Wireless Headphones
[Clear Edge IT] Best Data Visualization
Raspberry Pi Zero W (Wireless) Complete Starter Kits
[Facebook] Best use of any Facebook API or SDK
Custom Facebook Backpack with Swag
[Port Covington] Auto Inclusion Challenge
Smart City category, and prize is auto inclusion in one of our upcoming challenge tracks for Port Covington and Betamore Community Membership
[Miner & Kasch] Best Data Science Hack
Utilize data with your project as a core function, Prize will be an Nvidia GPU 1060 6GB for each team member
Best Hardware
Raspberry pis
Devpost Achievements
Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:
Judges
John Park
CMSC Professor
Richard Forno
CMSC Professor
Katherine Gibson
CMSC Professor
Gerald Tompkins
CMSC Professor
David Freet
CMSC Professor
Susan Mitchell
CMSC Professor
Carlos McKinney
Coordinator of Security at UMBC
Roy Prouty
CMSC Professor
Susie Lynch
CMSC Staff
Dakota Abernathy
Sanjay Purushotham
IS Professor
Peter Luu
UMBC Alum
Rod Lazaga
Mely Lazaga
Richard Peng
UMBC Alum
Judging Criteria
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Amazingness
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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 virtual reality projects decides to switch up and try doing a mobile app instead -
Creativity
Questions? Email the hackathon manager
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