Howdy, Friends!

We invite you to hack on projects that define your hacker journey. Build creative hacks that empower you and your fellow hackers to do more and celebrate the new year with us.

Whether you build something on the theme or not, focus on having fun. While we'd love to have you build something on the theme, our themes are only here for inspiration. Please build whatever you'd like!

Requirements

  • We require all teams to submit a 2 minute or less demo video.
  • Your code must be available in some sort of public repository. 
  • Your code and video must remain public post event if you want to continue being eligible for prizes. If your repo and video are not public we will select new winners. 
  • Your demo video must state the name of the hackathon at the beginning of the video. 
    • Ex. "Hey I'm Sam and this is my demo for AI Hackfest."
  • You must have completed all the registration steps on Devpost. 
    • Note that Hosted by MLH events require registration and check-in on MLH's event page.
    • Your email on all check in and registration platforms (Devpost, check-in form & MLH's event page) must match.
  • Your video must be created the weekend of the hackathon. 
  • We don't allow you to submit your project to other hackathons.
  • You can no longer submit projects that include prior work.
  • There is no maximum or minimum team size, but we've noticed that teams perform best when they have a maximum of 4 hackers.

Hackathon Sponsors

Prizes

5 non-cash prizes
Best Hack for Hackers
1 winner

Awarded to the team that comes up with the best hack that empowers the hacker community to do more! Winning team takes home keyboards or Gift Cards!

Best Use of MongoDB Atlas
1 winner

MongoDB Atlas takes the leading modern database and makes it accessible in the cloud! Get started with a $50 credit for students (https://mlh.link/mongodb) or sign up for the Atlas (https://mlh.link/mongodb-free) free forever tier (no credit card required). Along with a suite of services and functionalities, you'll have everything you need to manage all of your data, and you can get a headstart with free resources from MongoDB University(https://mlh.link/mongodb-university)! Build a hack using MongoDB Atlas for a chance to win a M5GO IoT Starter Kit for you and each member of your team.

Get started - https://mlh.link/mongodb

Best AI Project with Databricks Open Source
1 winner

Databricks is an open analytics platform that helps you build, deploy, and maintain large scale data & AI solutions! Whether you’re working with large language models using Mosaic AI(https://mlh.link/databricks-mosaicai), storing data with Databricks Data Lakes (https://mlh.link/databricks-datalakes), or deploying GenAI powered applications using MLflow(https://mlh.link/databricks-mlflow), Databricks Open Source software has the tools you need to make your hackathon project state of the art.

Build an AI powered project utilizing Databricks Open Source projects like the ones mentioned, or Databricks friendly Open Source projects like LanceDB and Llama Index, for a chance to win some amazing prizes for you and your teammates! Check out the following link to see all qualifying Databricks' Open Source technologies (https://mlh.link/databricks).

Get started - https://mlh.link/databricks

Sauce Labs Hot Sauce Raffle
1 winner

Sauce Labs (https://mlh.link/saucelabs-docs) empowers you to develop, test, and deliver top-tier web and mobile apps quickly and efficiently. Their unified platform makes automated testing and error monitoring easy to do, enabling you to save time building your hackathon project! Let Sauce Labs help resolve any issues with your code so you can get back to building an award winning hack. Make sure your project is hackathon-tested by signing up for a Sauce Labs account!

To spice things up even more, we're running the Sauce Labs Hot Sauce naming raffle and selecting up to 4 individual winners at this event. To qualify come up with a cool hot sauce name and submit it to the Sauce Labs raffle form (https://mlh.link/SauceRaffle) for a chance to win some awesome swag including a backpack, beanie, and a bottle of Sauce Labs hot sauce!

Get started - https://mlh.link/saucelabs

The Silliest Hack
1 winner

This prize celebrates the most hilariously creative and wonderfully pointless hack! Winning team takes home Bluetooth Trackers or Gift Cards.

Devpost Achievements

Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:

Judges

Major League Hacking

Major League Hacking

Judging Criteria

  • Completion
    Does the hack work? Did the team achieve everything they wanted?
  • Originality
    Has this project been done before at hackathons in the past? How creative is their project in solving the problem at hand?
  • Design
    Did the team put thought into the user experience? How well designed is the interface?
  • Adherence to Theme
    Does the hack adhere to the event's theme? Does it implement that theme fully or just partially?
  • Learning
    Did the team stretch themselves? Did they try to learn something new? What kind of projects have they worked on before?
  • Technology
    How technically impressive was the hack? Was the technical problem the team tackled difficult? Did it use a particularly clever technique or did it use many different components? Did the technology involved make you go "Wow"?

Questions? Email the hackathon manager

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