About the challenge

Impact Hacks is a beginner-friendly, virtual hackathon that empowers young programmers to build socially impactful products for their community. This hackathon will run from September 29th to October 2nd.

We invite all high schoolers and college students of all levels of coding experience, from all parts of the world, to participate in this event. Prior coding experience is optional.

Our hackathon is open-ended in terms of both idea and implementation. As long as your project has a positive impact on humanity, you are free to build anything in any way you desire. The only limit is your imagination.

The takeaway of this event is to make programmers realize the potential for coding to uplift one’s environment and combat some of the world’s most ongoing problems, no matter how big or small they may be. Feel free to be creative and have fun making impactful hacks!

Get started

Register for our event: https://forms.gle/Lqrg8sxtdoDoLYNU6

Join our discord: https://discord.gg/jGWZTEd2Pj

Learn more at our website: https://www.impacthacks.xyz/

If you have questions, concerns, or thoughts, you can reach us anytime at [email protected] or through our Discord server.

Requirements

What to Build

You can build anything as long as your creation positively impacts the livelihoods of others in some way or another. Your creation can be related to outside themes such as finance, education, healthcare, social justice, environmentalism, productivity, communication, and organization, to name a few.

Your final submission can be a coding or non-coding project. Some examples of coding projects include websites, games, applications, and AIs. Some examples of noncoding projects include figma designs, presentations, and low code/no code creations.

We encourage participants to be open-ended and free with their approach to this prompt.

What to Submit

Your submission must include at least a 2-5 minute showcase video (e.g. Youtube video) or presentation (e.g Google Slides, PowerPoint, Canva) to be considered for prizes.

The following are optional but highly recommended:

For coding projects
  1. Source code (e.g. GitHub repository, Repl)
For non-coding projects
  1. Any link to your creation (e.g. Figma, low-code/no-code links)

Hackathon Sponsors

Prizes

$180 in prizes
1st Place
1 winner

$100 Amazon gift card

2nd Place
1 winner

$50 Amazon gift card

3rd Place
1 winner

$30 Amazon gift card

Devpost Achievements

Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:

Judges

Denis Kondratev

Denis Kondratev
Senior Software Engineer at My.Games

Konstantin Glumov

Konstantin Glumov
Software Engineer at Alfa-Bank

Michael Geddes

Michael Geddes
Climate Tech Researcher

Timothy Lu
Senior Data Analyst at Caesars Entertainment

Vivaan Vora
Founder of Bay Area Hacks Society

Judging Criteria

  • Creativity
    How unique is your idea or the execution of your idea? Has anyone done this or approached it the way you did? Is there an element of originality in your project?
  • Completion
    How complete is your project? Can it wholly perform a function or functions? Is it a minimum viable product (MVP)? Is there only a few bugs/errors in your project?
  • Impactfulness
    How impactful is your project? Does it positively affect other people's lives or society in any way?
  • Complexity
    Is your project technically advanced? Was it challenging and time-consuming to design?

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