We are Melbourne's premier student hackathon - run for students, by students from WIRED Monash.

Teams have 24 hours to design and build something awesome. It can be anything - a website, a mobile application, a video game, or even something hardware. The important thing is that it needs to work when it is presented to the judges.

Whether you are an avid programmer or a first-time hacker, UNIHACK welcomes everyone, regardless of skill level. You will have the opportunity to build, collaborate and learn from your fellow hackers and mentors at the event. The event will also have a number of tech talks throughout to help participants learn new or extend their existing skills.

UNIHACK is organised by WIRED Monash, the IT student society at Monash University Clayton.

Eligibility

1. Teams can have up to six people.

2. Each member of a team must be a student studying at an undergraduate, honours, or postgraduate course at an accredited university or TAFE college in Australia or New Zealand.

3. Teams cannot have remote participants.

4. Melbourne only: teams must have a minimum number of four people. Teams with two or three people will be asked to merge. The Organisers reserve the right to relax this restriction at their discretion.

Requirements

In addition to details about your project and how you built it, you must also provide the following:

A list of all third-party material and APIs, including anything that was purchased.
A link to your repository (as per Section 2.3 of the rules)
Images and/or screenshots of your project

If you have created a web app, you are free to submit a link to a live working copy of your project with your submission. However, this is optional and not required.

You must also fill in the required fields with your DevPost submission to help us speed up the judging process. The information you provide will be used to create summary cards for the judges, allowing you to focus on the more important things during your pitch.

Video

You are encouraged to produce a video demonstration of your project. However, this is optional and not required.

This video must be a no-frills video - that is, no fancy graphics and animations - and does not exceed two minutes. We highly encourage you use your iPhone or Android smartphone to record the video.

We also strongly encourage you keep the video up after the event. This will help us for marketing and promotion of future UNIHACK competitions.

Hackathon Sponsors

Prizes

$8,753 in prizes

FIRST PLACE

1 winner

$4000 in cash

A VIP Experience to Future Assembly (thanks to Red Bull)

$10,000 worth of free processing from Pin Payments

$1000 voucher to any of Academy XI's courses (VR, AR, UX, Service Design, Growth Marketing) for each member

Free one-year personal annual license to a JetBrains IDE/tool1

Free membership to Startup Victoria for each member

A Google Home for each member
Localz Keepcup

SECOND PLACE

1 winner

$2000 in cash

1 free spot to any of Academy XI's courses (VR, AR, UX, Service Design, Growth Marketing)

A JBL Go for each member
Localz Keepcup

THIRD PLACE

1 winner

$1000 in cash
Localz Keepcup

BEST DESIGN

1 winner

Adobe Creative Cloud for each member

MOST CREATIVE IDEA

1 winner

A Raspberry Pi 3 Game Pack for each member

BEST USE OF ACCENTURE API

1 winner

BEST INDUSTRIAL IOT HACK

1 winner

BEST MOBILE EXPERIENCE

1 winner

COMPLEX CHALLENGE AWARD

2 winners

Sponsored by Optiver
1. Optiver Playing cards and T-shirts
2. $50 Melbourne Central voucher for each member

#BEAUTIFUL AWARD

1 winner

BEST SOCIAL MEDIA PRIZE

1 winner

Nintendo Switch Notebook and cap
Poop emoji balloon
Gold chain bling
Localz Keepcup

BEST MEME

1 winner

Logies trophy
2 Fidget Spinnes
Localz Keepcup

RAFFLE PRIZE - SONIQ

1 winner

Raffle prize for Tech Talk attendance

RAFFLE PRIZE - DRONES

1 winner

1. Parrot Jumping Sumo Drone
2. Parrot Rolling Spider Drone

RAFFLE PRIZE - SLANKETS

2 winners

1. Red Slanket
2. Blue Slanket

Judges

Chantapon Angsuwittaya
Advanced App Engineering Manager, Accenture

Dayle Stevens
Divisional CIO, Support Services Technology, NAB

Leesa Charlotte
Community Strategy Consultant & Events Curator

Alfred Glickman
Senior Developer, Odecee

Marina Paronetto
Founder, PowerhouseHQ; Senior Innovation Manager, PwC

Remya Ramesh
Experience Design Lead, Seamless

Long Zheng
Cofounder and Head of Product, Omny Studio

Judging Criteria

ORIGINALITY
Is the hack more than just another generic social/mobile/web/IoT solution? Does it do something entirely novel, or at least take a fresh approach to an old problem?
POLISH AND DESIGN
Is the hack usable in its current state? Does it work as the creators say? Is the user experience smooth? Is it well designed for the target audience? Our judges will want to see and use your prototype - so make sure it works!
TECHNICAL DIFFICULTY
Is the hack technically interesting or difficult? Is it just some lipstick on an API, or were there any technical challenges to surmount when building it?
USEFULNESS
Is it something people would actually use? Does it fulfil a real need that the community, the broader society or the target audience has? You do not need to prepare a business plan, but you should at least identify who is your target audience.