Hack Arizona is about bringing together the most talented students to represent the burgeoning tech ecosystem appearing across the country and creating a world class hacker culture in the southwest.
Hosted at the University of Arizona, over 800 participants will build software and hardware projects from start to finish in under 36 hours amongst their peers, mentors and company sponsors.
Eligibility
Requirements
To qualify your submission, you must:
- Build your project between 8PM Jan. 22, 2016 and 8AM Jan. 24, 2016 @University of Arizona
- Present your project during the Demo Exposition at University of Arizona Student Union's Grand Ballroom (Floor 3)
- Submit your project here on Devpost
- *If your project includes software, you must include a copy of your source code
Prizes
$2,520 in prizes
Grand Prize
Best overall hack.
Prizes:
Apple Watches provided by Amadeus (per team member)
Dell Venue 10 5000 Android Tablet provided by MLH
Chromecast and Nexus Player provided by Google
Hack Arizona Jackets (per team member)
Sennheiser HD 598 Over-Ear Headphones (per team member)
CamelBak Urban Assault XL 0.75L Classic Black Backpack (per team member)
CanaKit Raspberry Pi 2 Complete Starter Kit (per team member)
Software
Project demonstrates the best overall software implementation.
Prize: CanaKit Raspberry Pi 2 Complete Starter Kit (per team member)
Hardware
Project demonstrates best overall hardware work implementation.
Prize: CanaKit Raspberry Pi 2 Complete Starter Kit (per team member)
Sustainability
Project showcases the Triple Bottom Line (people, planet, profit) in a creative and effective manner.
Prize: CanaKit Raspberry Pi 2 Complete Starter Kit (per team member)
Health - Sponsored by Sunquest
Project aims to tackle the scalability of medicine and medical treatment in a creative and effective manner.
Prize: CanaKit Raspberry Pi 2 Complete Starter Kit (per team member)
FitBit Charge HRs
Sport-tek dri-fit shirts
Assorted Sunquest swag
Community
Project aims to take an issue within the context of urban development and/or education.
Prize: CanaKit Raspberry Pi 2 Complete Starter Kit (per team member)
Data Science and Visualization
Project deals with vast amount of data in order to tackle availability, distribution, visualization, or any other issue that can be observed in regards to information processing.
Prize: CanaKit Raspberry Pi 2 Complete Starter Kit (per team member)
Open Source Contribution
Project demonstrates (i) a clear convenience for such an innovation to be made freely available and (ii) steps were made to facilitate the distribution and modification of the original source code.
Prize: CanaKit Raspberry Pi 2 Complete Starter Kit (per team member)
Best Beginner Hack
Project with team members new to hardware and software.
Prize: CanaKit Raspberry Pi 2 Complete Starter Kit (per team member)
Popular Vote
Best project decided by public vote.
Prize: CanaKit Raspberry Pi 2 Complete Starter Kit (per team member)
Recruiting Ventures - Best Recruiting Mobile App
4 Sphero BB8s
Cisco - Best use of Cisco Tech (Spark/Tropo API)
4 Sphero BB-8s
Intuit - Best Quickbooks Online API Hack
Chrome Industries Rucksack Laptop back
Vilros Raspberry Pi 2 starter kit
Qishare iPad 2 with case
Surge protector power strip
State Farm - Best Wearable Hack
4 Apple Watches
ACSS - The Most WOW Hack
4 Raspberry Pi kits
Amazon - Best IoT Hack
4 Amazon Echos
USAA - Most Collaborative Team
4 iPad Airs
Metropia - Best Transportation Innovation
$500 for the team
Wolfram - Best Wolfram Tech Hack
One year Wolfram Development Platform
One year Mathematica student edition
Raytheon - Best Drone Related Hack (1st Place)
3D Printed Trophy
4 Parrot ARs
Raytheon - Best Drone Related Hack (2nd Place)
3D Printed Trophy, Logitech Webcam for each team member.
Raytheon - Best Drone Related Hack (3rd Place)
3D Printed Trophy, Arduino Wifi Shield, Raspberry Pi Wifi Dongle for each team member.
MLH - Punniest Domain.com Domain.
1 Team - 4 Domain.com Swag bags with Sparkfun Redboard
Cisco - Most Innovative Communications Hack
4 ArcBotics Sparki Arduino robots
GetScale - Most Elegant Hardware Hack
Ocean Mobile Servers, first to be released in the United States.
Devpost Achievements
Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:
How to enter
You are an elgible participant if you:
Judges
Nick Morin
Hack Arizona

Travis Woodrow

John McGonegal
Amadeus

Roman Yusufov
Amazon

Adam Kalsey
Cisco

Mikhail Rudinskiy
Raytheon

Jose Salcedo
Raytheon

Collin Eddy
Raytheon

Shyam Patel

Rushi Shah

Tim Colson

Jason Botello

Eric Rosas

Pablo Sarabia

Liz Halle

Matt Neal

Robert Miller

Chris Lowe

Christopher Correia

Andrew Slattery

George Cosarba

Jay Shah

Wesley Kerr

Gaurav Ragtah

Chris Galindo

Gordon Trang

Brandon McQuarie

Brenna Trout

Cam Riley

Ravi Shankar

Cari Copeland

Gregory Reida

Brian Biswell

Rodney Kugizaki

Kevin Visbal

Tim Manning

Cedric Macadangdang

Daniyar Murataliev

Barbara Anderson

Ben Loftin

Patrick Marcus

Chris Porter

Bhavani Veylan

York Myers

John Cafazza

Stephen Ost

Matt Rhebeck

Johnny Diggz

Casey Bleeker

James Krupnik

Glenn Austin

Dave Buechele

Andy Zimmerman

Andrew Largey

Chad Reichenbach

John Coats

Rob Moser

Joshua Reola

Sharon ONeal
Lance Tipton

Lou Norman

David Staudt

Alisa Keast

Piyush Awasthi

Manish Trivedi

Logan Chadderdon

Dennis Cajayon

Colton Pierson

Doug Welzel

Yi-Chang Chiu

David Leary

Don Yager

Rachael Castillo

Tristan Sokol

Manas Mukherjee

Teresa Frazier

David Stevens

Ryan Kelley

Jessica McCracken

Erika Aranda

Jonathan Friedman

Sam Michel

Wynter Dixon

Matthew Lichtenberger

Mary Bailey

Pablo Sarabia
USAA

Chris Galindo
State Farm

Jordan Singer

Thao Vo
Hack Arizona

Ian Tracey
Hack Arizona

Avery Davidson

Colton Pierson
GetScale

Andrew Prosch

Cody Deeran
Judging Criteria
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Originality
Has your project been done before? Is there novelty present? -
Creativity
Does your project have a non-obvious key element? Is there artistic merit present? -
Difficulty
How hard was your project to pull off during the event? Did you pull it off? -
Value Proposition
Does the project demonstrate a clear utility and is the team able to communicate that?
Questions? Email the hackathon manager
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