Prizes
$32,320 in prizes
Best of Show
Prize: Monitors + Personalized Sweatshirts
Awarded to the overall best hack. Judging is based on complexity, functionality, innovation, as well as design.
Most Technically Impressive
Prize: Mechanical Keyboards + Personalized Sweatshirts
Awarded to the most technically impressive hack.
Best Design
Prize: Wacom Tablets + Personalized Sweatshirts
Awarded to the hack with the best overall sense of design.
Best Beginner Hack
Awarded to the best hack from a first time hacker team. Each member will receive an Arduino kit as a prize.
Best Hardware Hack
Awarded to the most technically impressive and creative use of hardware/3d printing in a hack.
Best Use of VR/AR
Awarded to the hack that utilizes Virtual Reality or Augmented Reality in the most innovative way. Winning team will receive an HTC Vive and 3 Gigabyte Radeon RX 470 GPU's.
Most Entrepreneurially Promising Hack presented by Perkins Coie
Prize: $10K in free legal services regarding the formation a new tech company
Awarded to the hack with the most enterpreneurial promise, decided by members of Perkins Coie.
Hack that Best Connects Us presented by ViaSat
(3)
ViaSat’s mission is to connect the world; our company-sponsored prize will be for those projects we think are best in line with our mission.
1st place - $600
2nd place - $500
3rd place - $400
SPAWAR Virtual Reality Challenges
(3)
Create a VR experience that helps people complete regular tasks more efficiently through VR. Create a VR experience that teaches a specific skill, such as assembling a jet engine.
Create a VR experience that uses 3D space to visualize data in an interesting way. Winners receive the opportunity to interview with SPAWAR.
Best Use of DragonBoard
Awarded to the most innovative and creative use of the Qualcomm DragonBoard, sponsored by Qualcomm. Winners will each receive a DragonBoard.
Twitch Moderation Challenge
(3)
We’re looking for a bot that anyone can use to make chat more fun. We’ve seen games, we’ve seen song requests, we’ve seen loyalty points, but we haven’t seen anything that creates content. What kind of content would make chat more fun, and how could a bot find it and surface it?
1517 fund Grant
(4)
1517 is offering $1K grants to unique projects that could turn into products post Hackathon. If you love what you're making and think others will too this is the grant for you! 1517 also offers mentorship and other resources to grantees.
Most Commercializable Hack presented by the UCSD Office of Innovation and Commercialization
Awarded to the finalist team with the most marketable product.
Best Use of Arduino Hardware by General Atomics
$1000 in cash to be split among the team, sponsored by General Atomics, awarded to the team with the most innovative use of Arduino hardware.
Best Internet of Things Hack presented by Qualcomm Institute
Awarded to the most innovative hack that utilizes the Internet of Things, sponsored by the Qualcomm Institute. Each team member will receive an Amazon Echo.
Best Use of DocuSign API
DJI drone and two Amazon Echos, awarded for the best use of the DocuSign API
Best Use of SparkPost API
$500 in Amazon or Visa gift cards awarded to the team with the best use of the SparkPost API
Watch Dogs® 2 Best Device Privacy Hack
Everything is part of the internet of things now - from your phone to your fitness band to your thermostat. Build a hack that utilizes private data being collected from your devices, and show how you can turn potential vulnerabilities into something constructive. Winners receive Collector's Edition copies of Watch Dogs 2.
Best Use of AWS
1TB Hard Drives
#HackHarassment
Build a software solution that can help reduce the frequency and/or severity of online harassment. Each member receives a HackHarassment Swag Bag.
Best Domain Name from Domain.com
Domain.com Swag Bags
Devpost Achievements
Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:
Judges
Nick Quinlan
MLH
Ryan Hill
SD Hacks
Danielle Strachman
1517
Judging Criteria
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Complexity
How difficult was it to produce the hack? -
Functionality
Does the hack serve a useful purpose? Will the hack be useful for its target audience? -
Innovation
Does the hack bring a fresh new idea to the hacking community? Is the hack unique and groundbreaking? -
Design
Is the hack intuitive to use and does it function well? -
Awesomeness
Does this hack just make you say "Wow!"?
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