sunhacks is a yearly Fall hackathon (ideathon, coding marathon, prototyping marathon, etc) designed to support students in their innovative journeys. sunhacks is for students of all skill levels, and our job as organizers is to support you by providing the resources you need to achieve your development dreams. We provide you with workshops, mentors, community connections, and peers who are motivated to help each other succeed and reach their goals.

Requirements

In order for participants to be eligible for judging the Devpost project must contain an in-person demo to a judge, project write up, and evidence of work done (code and github where applicable, zip). If you are not able to demo, please submit a video on your DevPost submission. Some sponsor prizes may have explicit requirements as well.

In the instance there are team members, all team members must be registered for the hackathon individually and must be tagged in the devpost submission before the soft submission deadline.

Hackathon Sponsors

Prizes

$3,452 in prizes
First Place
1 winner

Sony WH-XB910N Wireless Noise Canceling Headphones

Second Place
1 winner

Blue Yeti USB Microphone - Blackout

Third Place
1 winner

Govee Lyra RGBICWW Corner Floor Lamp

#1 in Innovation
1 winner

Arizona State University Desk Pad

Awarded to the most innovative project! Show sunhacks what "#1 in Innovation" means to you!

Best Education
1 winner

RGB Sunrise Alarm Clock

For solutions that promote education and helping people learn new things.

Best Data
1 winner

Razer DeathAdder V2 Pro Wireless Gaming Mouse

Encompasses solutions pertaining to data science, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and or other advanced topics.

Best Sustainability
1 winner

Ceramic Animal Planters with Succulents

Solutions that address, inform, implement, or other sustainability or other humanitarian efforts, approaches, ideas, etc.

Most Aesthetic
1 winner

GE LED+ Color Changing LED Hexagon Tile Panels

Solutions that have aesthetically pleasing design and/or thoughtful, innovative, and efficient user experience.

Most "Useless" Hack
1 winner

Original Buddha Board Art Set

For hacks that are a seemingly an ingenious solution to a particular problem but are nothing more than a useless gag. While not exactly useful, somehow... not altogether useless...
See: Chindōgu Inventions

Best Beginner Hack
1 winner

JBL Go 3 Portable Bluetooth Speaker

The team must consist of a majority of members who are either attending their first hackathon or are in their first or second year of undergraduate study.

[State Farm] Best Hack for Social Good
1 winner

Raspberry Pi Dev Kit

Create a technical solution hack. A hack that addresses local/ global social issues. The hack should help people improve social issues they may face today.

[Amazon] Best Use of Amazon Web Services
1 winner

Choice of Echo, Echo Dot + Fire TV Stick, or Kindle (1 per team member)

Build a meaningful project that uses AWS services effectively. See the Amazon booth/Discord Channel for AWS credit to make your project come to life!

[Amazon] Best Use of Amazon Web Services Honorable Mention
1 winner

Honorable Mention for the Best Use of AWS

Build a meaningful project that uses AWS services effectively. See the Amazon booth/Discord Channel for AWS credit to make your project come to life!

Best Use of Google Cloud
1 winner

Google Cloud Backpack
Build your hackathon project with a suite of secure storage, powerful compute, and integrated data analytics products provided by Google Cloud. See full list of products here: g.co/cloud. Learn more about the tools and opportunities with Google Cloud by joining the Google Cloud Student Innovators program - goo.gle/student-innovators. Winners will receive a Google Cloud branded backpack!

Be sure to redeem your Google Cloud Credits as soon as possible through the Google Cloud Credit Form. Use the promo code in your pre-event email to access the form!

Most Creative Use of GitHub
1 winner

GitHub Swag
GitHub is one of the best ways to collaborate, push code, get feedback, and show the world what you’ve built during a hackathon. To take it a step further, GitHub is now offering you access to industry tools, events & learning resources through something called GitHub Global Campus. Win this weekend’s Most Creative Use of GitHub prize category, first by signing up for GitHub Global Campus and second by using a GitHub repository to host your hackathon project’s code! Make sure your use of GitHub stands out with a detailed ReadMe page, meaningful pull requests and collaboration history, and even a GitHub pages deployment!

Best Domain Name from GoDaddy Registry
1 winner

Hack from Home kit
GoDaddy Registry is giving you everything you need to be the best hacker no matter where you are. Register your domain name with GoDaddy Registry for a chance to win a Hack from Home Kit! Each Kit contains wireless earbuds, blue light glasses, selfie ring light and a pouch for easy transport.

Best Use of Hedera
1 winner

Compact Mechanical Keyboard
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 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.

Best Use of Kintone
1 winner

Breadboard IoT Kit
Still not sure what backend to use in your hack? Kintone is a low-code web database that lets you set up your backend in minutes. It's beginner friendly, allowing you to customize your Kintone app using nothing but JavaScript and HTML. If you're interested in IoT, your team can snag a FREE microcontroller by signing up for Kintone and visiting the MLH table. If you use Kintone in your hackathon project, you'll have a chance to win a breadboard IoT kit to power up the hardware hacking for each member of your team!

Most Creative Use of Redis Cloud
1 winner

Libre Mini Computer with Redis Stack Server Pre-Installed
Redis Cloud is the easiest way to build and scale real-time applications - Period! It includes Redis Stack, adding indexing, querying, full-text search, JSON, time-series, and probabilistic data structures to the already-rich set of features of Redis.

Redis Stack works with all of your favorite programming languages and can be added to any existing application. It’s the easiest way to build real-time applications that scale and perform.

Show us how you’ve used Redis Cloud in a way that showcases your unique and specific data structure needs and each member of your team could win a personal, portable Redis Stack server IOT hardware unit to keep developing on the go. Find out why Stack Overflow Developers have voted Redis their “most loved and admired” noSQL database for years-running by rolling Redis into your MLH Hackathon project.

Sign up for your free Redis Cloud account, and head over to the MLH jump off page on Redis University for more info and docs links. Enter coupon code MLHFall2023 to claim your Redis Cloud credits and get started for free!

Best Use of TinyMCE
1 winner

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.

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, there’s a plugin for every use case imaginable!

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 and use at least 3 open source plugins and 2 premium plugins in your project, for a chance to win a 3D Printing Pen for you and each of your team members!

Best Use of Starknet
1 winner

Starknet Care Package

Starknet is a general-purpose network where you can write and deploy your own smart contracts and interact with other contracts just like Ethereum. Build your application around Starknet using Rust or Python for your backend infrastructure, Starknet DSL for smart contract development, and React / JavaScript for your front end user interface. There are several SDKs available for you to choose from, making integrating Starknet into your hackathon project a breeze. Use Starknet in your project this weekend for a chance to win a Starknet care package, including a backpack, socks, water bottle, and a ticket to a Starknet sponsored Web3 conference of your choice!

Devpost Achievements

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Judging Criteria

  • Design
  • Originality
  • Functionality
    (Completeness)
  • Complexity

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