About the challenge

Welcome to MOSA Spring Hackathon 2024! 

This is an exciting opportunity for MCIT/MSE-DS online students to work together on a technical project for a chance to be recognized as a winner. Also, this a great opportunity to add an impressive project to your resume, get to know other students, and gain experience with collaboration.

 

Dates:

Registration deadline: May 2nd, 2024, 11:59 pm EDT
Hacking starts: May 3rd, 2024
Submission deadline: May 6th, 2024, 11:59 pm EDT

 

Eligibility & Rules:

  • Participant must be a MCIT/ MSE-DS Online student
  • Each student can only join one team
  • Each team can only submit to one track
  • Each team can have 2-4 students

 

Get started:

To get started, simply register your team of 2-4 here. Once you're registered, join us the on slack channel #mosa-hackathon-event to meet other hackers and for the lastest updates.

Requirements

What to Build

In this open-ended hackathon, you are free to choose a project of your choice using any programming language, with the primary goal being to learn and build something new and valuable to add to your portfolio. You can submit to one of the following themes: AI for good, Finance, Education, Healthcare and General.

 

To be considered for a prize, you will need to do 4 things:

  • Complete registration before May 2nd, 11:59 pm EDT.
  • Submit GitHub repo to Devpost using official README.md template by May 6th, 11:59 pm EDT
  • Submit 2-3 minute max demo video to Devpost by May 6th, 11:59 pm EDT
  • Submit a writeup for your project via Devpost by May 6th, 11:59 pm EDT

Hackathon Sponsors

Prizes

6 non-cash prizes
Prizes
1 winner

Winners will be announced based on each of the following categories or on an Overall basis (to be decided). Please note winners will receive certificate awards congratulating them on their achievement (ie. no prize).

Category 1 - AI for Good
1 winner

The focus of this track is to create projects that leverage artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies to solve problems that affect the world.

Category 2 - Education
1 winner

The track focuses on using innovative technological solutions to address problems that students, teachers, and educational institutes face.

Category 3 - Finance
1 winner

This track could involve diverse projects ranging from improving the users' financial wellbeing, personal finance management to those enhancing broader financial services.

Category 4 - Healthcare
1 winner

This track is for projects focusing on human or animal health, encompassing any disease or condition. It could also involve projects that enhance healthcare services or any other technological solution that addresses the health sector-wide challenges.

Category 5 : General
2 winners

Projects submitted to this track can be related to any area of interest. This is a broad theme that allows for a diverse range of projects, from web applications to mobile apps and more.

Devpost Achievements

Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:

Judges

Dr. Thomas Farmer

Dr. Thomas Farmer
Director, MCIT Online Master’s Degree Program, UPenn

Brandon Krakowsky

Brandon Krakowsky
Lecturer, Department of Computer and Information Science

Judging Criteria

  • Project idea/ Innovation (10 points)
    How well does the project address/ solve a need or problem in any field/ community? Does it have any interesting design/ novel features or is it something known to all?
  • Implementation (10 points)
    How technically challenging is it to solve the problem? Does the software have any critical errors, many bugs or minimal to no bugs? Any use of architecture/ software design patterns in the code?
  • Design (5 points)
    Did the group carefully consider the user experience? How well is the user interface designed?
  • Scalability/ease of adoption (5 points)
    Does the project have the potential to scale? What is the likelihood of its adoption by stakeholders, intended users, etc.?
  • Presentation (5 points)
    Did the group provide a thoughtful elevator pitch that explains the problem statement and how their project can be useful to others in comparison to other interventions? Did the group explain the logic behind the code in a methodical manner?

Questions? Email the hackathon manager

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