HackNC 2023 will serve you from October 27 to 29 at UNC-Chapel Hill!
HackNC is a weekend for students of all skill levels to broaden their talents. Your challenge is to make an awesome project in just 24 hours. You will have access to hands-on workshops and demos from our sponsors, as well as exciting talks about the awesome things happening right now with computer science and technology - not to mention all of the free food, shirts, stickers, and swag!
HackNC begins with just a weekend, but we hope you're ready to learn new skills, make friends, and foster ideas here that flourish. Ready to register? You'll need a laptop and your fanciest thinking cap - everything else is on us. Begin your journey by registering now at hacknc.com. This step is mandatory.
Requirements
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Create your Devpost submission on our HackNC 2023 Devpost and attach a video/demo (maximum 2-minute long) before the hacking period ends (Sunday, October 29th at 11 AM EST)
- Every team can only submit one project. Multiple submissions per team will not be allowed.
- Every submission must include a GitHub link to any code written for the hack, unless previous arrangements were made with the Directors.
- Every submission must include a max. 2-minute long demo video showcasing the features of the project.
- We cannot guarantee that judges will fully watch your video if they’re longer than 2 minutes.
- Projects without a demo video will not be judged. These videos will be shown to our judges and if your project ends up winning a general category or track prize, it may be played/published on our social media channels.
- We cannot accept projects that have been submitted to other hackathons.
Prizes
$4,940 in prizes
HackNC General - 1st Place
Airpods Gen 2
HackNC Beginner - 1st Place
Airpods Gen 2
HackNC General - 2nd Place
Echo Dot (4th Gen)
HackNC Beginner - 2nd Place
Echo Dot (4th Gen)
HackNC - Beginner Best Game Hack
Logitech K845 Mechanical Illuminated Keyboard
HackNC - Beginner Best UI/UX Hack
HUION Drawing Tablet
HackNC - Beginner Best Mobile Hack
Tile Mate 2-Pack. Bluetooth Tracker
CapTech - Best Hack to Support Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging
Win a CapTech sling bag filled with CapTech swag for the best hack to support DIB!
Zilliz - Best Use of Zilliz
Zilliz Swag Packs
Infosys - Best Infosys Hack
Infosys InStep Goodie Bag, including Amazon Fire Stick
Cisco - Best Innovative Hack
JBL Flip 5 with Hardshell Case
CapTech - Best Hack to Support Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging
Win a CapTech sling bag filled with CapTech swag for the best hack to support DIB!
Bandwidth - Best Communications & Community Hack
Bandwidth Swag Bag including an Amazon Gift Card!
John Deere - Best Farming Simulator
John Deere Lego Kits
Pittsburgh Regional Health Initiative - Best Patient Safety Hack
$100 Amazon Gift Cards
Best Use of Google Cloud
Google Cloud Backpack
Build your hackathon project with a suite of secure storage, powerful compute, and integrated data analytics products provided by Google Cloud. See full list of products here: g.co/cloud. Learn more about the tools and opportunities with Google Cloud by joining the Google Cloud Student Innovators program - goo.gle/student-innovators. Winners will receive a Google Cloud branded backpack!
Be sure to redeem your Google Cloud Credits as soon as possible through the Google Cloud Credit Form. Use the promo code in your pre-event email to access the form!
Most Creative Use of GitHub
GitHub Swag
GitHub is one of the best ways to collaborate, push code, get feedback, and show the world what you’ve built during a hackathon. To take it a step further, GitHub is now offering you access to industry tools, events & learning resources through something called GitHub Global Campus. Win this weekend’s Most Creative Use of GitHub prize category, first by signing up for GitHub Global Campus and second by using a GitHub repository to host your hackathon project’s code! Make sure your use of GitHub stands out with a detailed ReadMe page, meaningful pull requests and collaboration history, and even a GitHub pages deployment!
Best Domain Name from GoDaddy Registry
Hack from Home kit
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 Circle
Circle Branded Hardware Wallet
With Circle, you can embed secure wallets into your app in just minutes. Circle Web3 wallets are compatible with multiple blockchains and are supported by over a dozen programming language SDKs. Circle’s programmable wallets will enable you to add secure transactions to your hackathon project using RESTful APIs, with options for both user and developer controlled transactions. If your hackathon idea involves in-app purchases, user to user payments, app to user payments, or all of the above, integrating Circle programmable wallets to your Web2 or Web3 tech-stack may be the perfect solution.
Sign up for a developer account and start using Circle’s APIs today, for a chance to win a Circle Branded Hardware Wallet for you and each of your teammates!
Most Creative Use of Redis Cloud
Libre Mini Computer with Redis Stack Server Pre-Installed
Redis Cloud is the easiest way to build and scale real-time applications - Period! It includes Redis Stack, adding indexing, querying, full-text search, JSON, time-series, and probabilistic data structures to the already-rich set of features of Redis.
Redis Stack works with all of your favorite programming languages and can be added to any existing application. It’s the easiest way to build real-time applications that scale and perform.
Show us how you’ve used Redis Cloud in a way that showcases your unique and specific data structure needs and each member of your team could win a personal, portable Redis Stack server IOT hardware unit to keep developing on the go. Find out why Stack Overflow Developers have voted Redis their “most loved and admired” noSQL database for years-running by rolling Redis into your MLH Hackathon project.
Sign up for your free Redis Cloud account, and head over to the MLH jump off page on Redis University for more info and docs links. Enter coupon code MLHFall2023 to claim your Redis Cloud credits and get started for free!
HackNC - General Best Game Hack
Logitech K845 Mechanical Illuminated Keyboard
HackNC - General Best UI/UX Hack
HUION Drawing Tablet
HackNC - General Best Mobile Hack
Tile Mate 2-Pack. Bluetooth Tracker
Devpost Achievements
Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:
Judges
Rohan Akki
Nell Ashley
Bandwidth
Rick Parker
Lucid Software
Mustafa Mustafa
Code for America
Mohan Ram Rajendran
Renci
Aria Chang
Microsoft
Devin Becktell
John Deere
Adam Aji
Revvity
Rachel Hebert
Bandwidth
AJ Rice
Bandwidth
Matthew Martin
Bandwidth
Samuel Everhardt
Bandwidth
Hannah Morilak
Revvity
Luis Torres Torija
Pittsburgh Regional Health Initiative
Yujian Tang
Zilliz
Pallabita Patnaik
Principal Financial Group
Joshua Bakita
Judging Criteria
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Application/Impact
Does the project have any feasible application and/or have a social impact that goes above and beyond? Will this help the community with a real problem they are facing? Can this be implemented? Will people find value and use your project? -
Functionality/Quality
Is the project free of major bugs? Does it look appealing? The UI/UX doesn’t have to be absolutely perfect, but if we're having a hard time understanding the project by looking at it, there may be a problem. -
Creativity
Is this project unique and innovative? Is it a solution or creation we have never seen before? A better way of doing something? -
Technical Complexity
The team should display a good level of knowledge in terms of the technology they’ve used in implementing their project. -
Presentation
The team is able to fully present the functionalities of their project, including what they wish to expand on in the future.
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