About the challenge

Ridgehacks 2024 is Ridge High School's premier annual hackathon led by the Ridge Computer Science Club. Following a single day, 12-hour hacking schedule , Ridgehacks offers a free hackathon for Middle and High School Students from 8:00 AM until 10:00 PM.

Get started

Please make sure you have filled out our Google Form, and reviewed the submission requirements and rules!

Theme

The theme for this hackathon is ART. Whether it's an art piece in it of itself, or it's a new way to view, create, catalog, or find it, whether it's paintings, music or something completely different, we challenge you to make something creative and fresh.

Keep in mind that your project does not have to exactly follow the theme. The relation can be a little contrived! As long as your idea is interesting and inspired, we just want you to use the theme as a jumping off point.

Requirements

What can I build?

Literally anything! Our submission requirements are lax, and although we have a theme as a jumping-off point for your projects, we want you to take that idea and run with it with no limitations. Projects that follow the prompt particularly well, or do it in a particularly creative way will be given more consideration when judging.

Submitting a Project

When submitting the code for a project, it is preferrable you use some sort an online platform like Github, although if you are unfamilliar with Github or a similar service, it is acceptable to simply upload a zip, or provide a link to where any relevant code may be downloaded.

You will first submit a presentation on devpost. It is highly encouraged to submit a short 2-3 minute video showcasing your project. Please do the following:

  • Show your project working
  • Explain the most important part of your code / design. Go into some technical details!
  • Explain some part of your process. What worked? What didn't? What challenges did you have to overcome?

From there, our judges will pick a limited selection of projects to be showcased in the Preforming Arts Center, where teams will give a final presentation to all attendees. From there, we will select projects to win prizes.

You will be judged on three criteria:

  • Technical Impressiveness: How much technical wizardry / expertise did this require to pull off?
  • Theme / Idea: How creative / inspired was the idea? How could it be built on in the future?
  • Implementation / Design: How well is the idea executed? How well does it do what it set out to do?

Hackathon Sponsors

Prizes

$798 in prizes
First Place!
1 winner

Congratulations to ALAN our first place winners!

Awarded:
- GAR Monster Kit ($210)
- Portable Monitor ($80)
- Keyboard ($24)
- Drawing Tablet ($60)

Second Place
1 winner

Congratulations to Graze our second place winners!

Awarded:
- Drawing Tablet ($60)
- Keyboard ($24)

Third Place
1 winner

Congratulations to Images for the Blind, our third place winners!

Awarded:
- Drawing Tablet ($60)
- NordVPN, NordPass, Incogni bundle ($240)

Best Beginner(s)
1 winner

Congrats to Triviart for winning best beginner Prize!

Devpost Achievements

Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:

Judges

Mark Galesi

Mark Galesi
Computer Science Teacher at Ridge High School

Lauren Tan

Lauren Tan
Computer Science Teacher at Ridge High School

Tim Tirrell

Tim Tirrell
Sr Data Engineer at Healthix

Cy Westbrook

Cy Westbrook
Computer Science Student at Rutgers University

Leo Lawrence

Leo Lawrence
Application Developer / SWE and Student at Rutgers University

Zhimin Xi

Zhimin Xi
Associate professor at Rutgers University

Ramesh Balaji

Ramesh Balaji
Software Engineer at Loide Technology/CS and Math Student at Rutgers University

Judging Criteria

  • Technical Impressiveness
    How much technical wizardry / expertise did this require to pull off? How difficult were the problems needed to be overcome?
  • Theme / Idea
    How creative / inspired was the idea? How could it be built on in the future?
  • Implementation / Design
    How well is the idea executed? How well does it do what it set out to do?

Questions? Email the hackathon manager

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