What is the challenge?

TechEden is a Hackathon for students to showcase their brainstorming and coding skills. Here the participants can propose ideas to tackle issues that they think need a solution and then work on them to provide a prototype or part of the solution. Participants will be working with their teammates to stir up the solution.

This is a beginner-friendly and free-to-register hackathon.

There are a total of 5 stages in this hackathon:

1) Hackathon kickoff

2) Checkpoint-1 - The Ideation

3) Checkpoint -2 - The proposal

4) Checkpoint -3  - The prototype

5) Hackathon END 

Requirements

What to Build?

The participants should come up with a solution to the given problem statements. The idea should be properly documented and proposed.
Secondly, the proposed idea, should be built as a working prototype or model or application.

(All teams, submitting at least the proposal of Idea, will be considered in the race to win)

What to Submit?

1) Idea proposal/ document

2) Prototype/Model/Application (optional, but better to win)

Hackathon Sponsors

Prizes

203,000 in prizes
Momento
3 winners

Digital Ocean Credits
2 winners

Digital Ocean Credits

Best Use of MongoDB Atlas
1 winner

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

Best Domain Name from GoDaddy Registry
1 winner

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 MATLAB
1 winner

MATLAB and Simulink are computational tools used at over 100,000 businesses, government and university sites in over 190 countries. Use MATLAB and/or Simulink exclusively or integrate them into another tool for your next hack to win some exclusive MathWorks swag including a MathWorks branded cinch bag, pair of socks, baseball cap, stylus pen & deck of cards! You can also claim a free MATLAB software license to get started.

Best Use of DeSo
1 winner

DeSo is the official Web3 sponsor of the MLH Hackathon League and the first Layer 1 blockchain custom-built for decentralized social media applications. While a blockchain like Avalanche costs $0.50+ to store just a 200-character post, the DeSo blockchain is built with custom indexing and storage optimizations which make it 10,000X cheaper to store social content on-chain! In order to qualify for the contest, build a hack that uses the DeSo API. While social media apps are a great fit for DeSo, you can also build financial apps, marketplaces, and more on the DeSo blockchain. To get started, sign up for a DiamondApp account, make a post tagging @deso with both your event hashtag & #MLH. The DeSo team will then send you even more $DESO coin to build your hackathon project! On top of that, the team with the Best Use of DeSo gets $100 worth of $DESO coin, an exclusive DeSo branded tumbler, and a YubiKey Security Key!

Most Creative Use of Twilio
1 winner

Twilio allows you to incorporate mobile messaging, phone calls and a ton of other awesome communication features right into your hackathon project using a web service API. Are you building an e-commerce website and want to send text notifications or email confirmations once an order is completed? Or maybe you'd like to verify users based on their mobile numbers? Twilio makes all this possible and more. Build a hack that simplifies your life using any Twilio API for a chance to win some awesome prizes! Get started with $50 in free credit!

Devpost Achievements

Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:

Judges

Debajit Das

Debajit Das
United Nations

Judging Criteria

  • Idea Proposal
    The minimum criterion for you to be eligible in the win race, is to have a idea proposal ready.

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