Open to all HopHacks hackers! Take this open-ended opportunity to collaborate alongside others of all skills and experience levels and hack to your heart’s desire.

1st Place - $1024, 2nd Place - $512, 3rd Place - $256
MLH Winner Pins will be given to all winners

This will be awarded to the best application to support philanthropic goals. Criteria will include how much the application aims to help people and improve lives, technical difficulty, and technical polish.

1st Place - $400, 2nd Place - $300, 3rd Place - $100

At Marshall Wace, data is our cornerstone—whether it's ingesting market data from Bloomberg and OTC exchanges or leveraging alternative data for deeper market insights. Showcase your prowess in ETL pipelines, data visualization, and/or real-time data processing (these are just examples of potential projects). The team with the most compelling data demonstration will each win an iPad and Marshall Wace branded jackets.

1st Place - 4 iPad Airs + Marshall Wace jackets, 2nd Place - $500, 3rd Place - $300

We’re in search of bold new thinking. This is an invitation to solve the problem of medical error that harms millions of U.S. patients, kills approximately 250,000 patients, and costs billions of dollars every year. We’re calling on HopHacks teams to envision the best technology-enabled patient safety solution that has the potential to avert patient harm and save lives. You do not need to have any background in healthcare to participate! To be eligible to win your project must align with one of the following five leading patient safety challenges facing health care across the continuum of care: Medication errors, procedural/surgical errors, errors during routine patient care (e.g. pressure ulcers, blood clots, falls), infections and diagnostic safety.

1st Place - $500, 2nd Place - $300

Telemedicine Hub doctors need accurate and complete patient clinical history from Spokes to improve diagnostic accuracy and reduce repeated questioning. Currently, insufficient history forces Hub doctors to spend valuable time asking basic questions, delaying treatment. Your challenge is to create a solution that improves the reliability and completeness of clinical data collected at Spokes, optimizing time for more teleconsultations and better diagnoses.

1st Place - $500, 2nd Place - $300

These awards are for JHU student-led teams that have an exciting business idea that has the potential for significant growth, led by a team that is interested in founding a startup venture. (RESTRICTED TO TEAMS WITH AT LEAST ONE JHU STUDENT)

1st Place - $500, 2nd Place - $250

These awards are for JHU student-led teams that demonstrate exceptional UI or particularly elegant code, and are interested in continuing work on the project over the coming year. (RESTRICTED TO TEAMS WITH AT LEAST ONE JHU STUDENT) 1st Place - $500, 2nd Place - $250

M5GO IoT Starter Kit

MongoDB Atlas takes the leading modern database and makes it accessible in the cloud! Get started with a $50 credit for students (https://hackp.ac/mongodb) or sign up for the Atlas free forever tier, no credit card required (https://hackp.ac/mongodb-free). Along with a suite of services and functionalities, you'll have everything you need to manage all of your data, and you can get a headstart with free resources from MongoDB University (https://hackp.ac/mongodb-university)! Build a hack using MongoDB Atlas for a chance to win a M5GO IoT Starter Kit for you and each member of your team.

Fidelity Branded Wireless Charger

At Fidelity, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion are viewed as major keys to the success of their business, which is why they are challenging you to come up with innovative ways to create forward-thinking financial tech that promotes equality for all people! We want you to use your hacking skills to find and build solutions that put financial opportunities and resources within reach for all communities, creating accessible, sustainable, and/or inclusive solutions. The team with the best hack will win a Fidelity branded wireless charger for each team member!

Wacom Wireless Drawing Tablet & JBL Go3 Speaker
Adobe Express is an AI-first, all-in-one content creation app that makes it fast, easy and fun to design and share videos, images, PDFs, flyers, TikToks, logos and more. Best of all, it’s free to get started.

Add-ons in Adobe Express are simply extensions and integrations that are built upon very powerful APIs. These APIs provide access to the user’s document, connections to third-party tools, and so much more. You can extend the functionality of Adobe Express using add-ons to unlock new capabilities and workflows. Check out these add-ons to see what other cool ideas developers have implemented!

For this hackathon, we want you to build a creative add-on for Adobe Express. Users are looking for add-ons that involve assets like stickers or icons, work with presentations and data visualization, and work in roles like marketing and e-commerce. Build an Adobe Express add-on this weekend for a chance to win a Wacom Wireless Drawing Tablet and JBL Go3 Speaker for you and each member of your team!

*You can also submit to this prize category if you have a prototype idea for an add-on or have a partially completed add-on. As long as you’ve built with Adobe Express, we want to see your hack!

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!

3D Printing Pen
TinyMCE is a rich-text editor that allows you to create formatted content within a hacker-friendly interface. Adding a Rich Text Editor component has never been easier! Alongside functionality like bold, italics, underlines, hyperlinks, or titles (to name a few), the editor also allows users to enable HTML tags, MarkDown or CSS. TinyMCE even gives you the ability to edit your text elements directly with no code, similar to the way you would edit a word document but with even more practical hackathon use cases.

TinyMCE also has dozens of plugins that allow developers to customize their user’s experience. From implementing accessibility checkers, autocorrect, and enhanced image editing to utilizing emoticons, adding responsive design with auto resize and even a ChatGPT AI Assistant. If your hackathon project accepts ANY type of text input, you can use TinyMCE to take it to the next level.

Signup for TinyMCE for a free trial and get started today, no credit card required! To qualify for the Best Use of TinyMCE prize category, be sure to render the editor with a Tiny Cloud account for a chance to win a 3D Printing Pen for you and each of your team members!