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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