Hacking is building things that you always wanted to have but no one has built it yet. It's to come up with an amazing idea and work tirelessly on it. It is to fail, fail again and fail better. Try out new things and learn while doing that. It's to work together, collaborate and build things that are innovative. It is to be a better programmer.
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 900 participants will build software and hardware projects from start to finish in under 36 hours amongst their peers, mentors and company sponsors.
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For Special Prizes by Sponsors, any project you submit for their category will be handled directly by the sponsor. HackAZ is not in charge of their prizes unless specifically stated.
Project that is selected by the Popular Vote event at the Expo.
Winning team will receive Emberlight
To qualify, your project must:
Demonstrate use of the Fluent design system, using prescribed layout, style, and control patterns
Demonstrate inclusive design using Fluent's usability standards
Demonstrate an innovative use of inputs and/or devices (i.e. mouse, touch, speech, etc.)
The prize will be a VR headset for each member of the winning team (max 4 members)
To qualify, your project must:
Demonstrate measurable and positive social impact
Be a clear reflection of targeted community priorities
Demonstrate an innovative use of technology in achieving social impact
The prize will be a VR headset for each member of the winning team (max 4 members)
Jacobs will be awarding their prize to the best use of a GPS enabled microprocessor.
GoDaddy will grant their prize to a web app with good social impact
Looking for the best use of VR to help others. State Farm will be looking at the clarity of the problem you are solving, the originality of your idea, and the quality of the prototype you create
The prize will be an Acer VR Headset
Awarded to the project that has the biggest impact in the Healthcare IT industry
First place: $1500
Second place: $500
Granted to the project that best innovates to solve a real-world problem with Alexa
The prize will be an Amazon Echo Spot for each team member
Awarded to a team that innovates to solve a real-world problem with Lex
The prize will be an Amazon Echo Spot for each team member
Awarded to a team that solves a real-world problem using computed intelligence around data
The prize will be an Amazon Fire HD 8 for each team member
Granted to a team that solves a real-world humanitarian issue. Think how you can make the world a better place
The prize will be an Amazon Echo for each team member
Projects for this prize will be judged in three areas:
Innovation (50 pts) - Is the hack an innovative solution that will help new residents connect to their community? Consider this new community an up and coming tech destination
Product (50 pts) - Is the app complete? Is it user friendly?
Technology (10 pts) - Usage of modern technologies such as chatbots or IoT integrations will earn extra points
The prize is a Mophie Powerstation Mini 3000mAh External Battery for each team member
The prize will be a Qualcomm DragonBoard 410c power source
The prize is $250 in AWS credit
The prize is a Raspberry Pi and PiHut Essential Kit for each team member.
The prize is Google Home Minis and Google Cardboard to winning team (4 max members)
To qualify for Beginner Hack, this must be at least half of your teams first Hackathon and the first time they "Hacked" a project together.
A project that demonstrates more creativity than practicality.
Project that promotes or supports environmental science, depleting natural resource or ecological balance.
Projects that impacts healthy living, biometrics, healthcare or medicine.
Involves benefiting the community as whole or supporting disenfranchised people with the goal of not having monetary gains (think non-profit).
Anything that takes real data from any source and solves a problem of data mapping or data interaction. Example: Mapping out election data for counties or https://maps.global.arizona.edu/
A hack that allows a player to play a game with game mechanics in a digital space. Anything from tic-tac-toe to PUBG.
Your project must incorporate virtual reality. This can be for any headset such as Oculus, HoloLens, or Mobile.
Demonstrates an ability to improve/learn using data or similar application
Integrating microprocessor into your project such as raspberry pi, arduino, or significant consumer hardware modification.
Are you a UA student who would like to work on their idea post hackathon? Submit to this category and you can apply to the InnovateUA Accelerator!
Improve the world of recruiting and/or job seeking through the power of A.I.
Winning team will receive $5000.