Welcome to HackWesTX, Texas Tech University's premier hackathon that brings together students, innovators, and industry professionals to the heart of West Texas. HackWesTX is not just an event; it's an opportunity designed to empower attendees to explore their passion for technology, collaborate on innovative projects, and network with industry professionals. 

HackWesTX Fall 2023 is proudly sponsored by Tactical Computing Labs, Quext, NexTier OFS, MathWorks, and VirVizio, and co-hosted by the Google Developer Student Club and the Association for Computing Machinery.

Requirements

What to Build?

Code and create anything you want! All forms of software will be judged by the same criteria.

What to Submit?

We require you submit:

  • The source-code for your project
  • A text description of your project
  • A list of the tools, frameworks, APIs, languages, etc., that you used to develop your project.

We strongly suggest you submit:

  • A video demonstration of your project working (in the event the live demo malfunctions)
  • A text description of the lessons learned and challenges faced over the course of your project

Hackathon Sponsors

Prizes

$3,410 in prizes
1st Place
1 winner

2nd Place
1 winner

3rd Place
1 winner

Best Use of Circle
1 winner

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.

Sign up for a developer account and start using Circle’s APIs today, for a chance to win a Circle Branded Hardware Wallet for you and each of your teammates!

Best Use of Streamlit
1 winner

Want to take your Python skills to the next level? Streamlit is an open-source Python library that makes it easy to share and build custom web apps for machine learning, data science, and more. Instead of writing Python scripts without a UI, you can create a beautiful web app, complete with widgets and data visualizations, and deploy it for free to the Streamlit Community Cloud. You can even build a fully functional LLM-powered app with just 25 lines of code! Hack with Streamlit this weekend for your chance to win a Pimoroni PicoSystem programmable gaming system for you and each member of your team.

Best Accessibility Hack sponsored by Fidelity
1 winner

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 to all communities. The team with the best accessibility hack will win a Fidelity branded wireless charger for each team member!

Best Use of Hedera
1 winner

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 Glorious Modular Compact Mechanical Keyboards for you and your team!

- Build a decentralized application on Hedera using our JavaScript SDK.

- Build applications that never sleep using EVM compatible smart contract service.

- Say goodbye to cumbersome databases and hello to seamless scalability of Hedera Consensus Service. With no need for writing your own APIs your data is securely stored and easily retrieved.

Most Creative Hack
1 winner

TCL Challenge Prize
1 winner

Best First-Time Hack
1 winner

Devpost Achievements

Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:

Judges

Dr. Catherine Jai

Dr. Catherine Jai
Texas Tech University

Dr. Chris Monico

Dr. Chris Monico

Dr. Sunho Lim

Dr. Sunho Lim

Prof. Derek Johnston

Prof. Derek Johnston

Dr. Levi Johnson

Dr. Levi Johnson

Judging Criteria

  • Submission
    All hackers must submit there projects to be considered for judging.

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