Name: Treasure Hacks 3.5
Start: 2023-04-28T19:00:00.000-04:00
End: 2023-04-30T02:45:00.000-04:00
Location: Treasure Hacks 3.5

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If you're interested in judging this event, please see our judging application.

Overview

Treasure Hacks follows the typical formatting of online hackathons. Students in groups of up to four, are to come up with a project of any type and come up with a working solution using programming. Our hackathon is open to any level of programmers (if you are a beginner, attend our super helpful workshops!).

Treasure Hacks 3.5 is also Generative AI and Blockchain themed! At this event, we've invited industry professionals to speak about their generative AI products, companies that help ease the process of learning to code with the blockchain, and much more. However, if you do not want to develop in these themes, we still have a general category that you can compete in where you can build whatever you'd like!

In addition to the competition, we have plenty of events like a sponsor teaching programmers how to use their product, an industry computer scientist sharing their experience, or a teacher teaching basic skills.

We also plan to present step-by-step instructions to help you through every part of a hackathon like making and using a GitHub, turning in your project, etc. More information on our website.

Registration

First, you must sign up on our registration form. Then, depending on whether you have a team or not you will sign up on devpost (Right here!). If you do not have a team, don't worry! We have partnered with Groupr to help ease this process and create the ideal team. Once you have created your team, you must sign up on devpost.

Time/Location/Eligibility

Our hackathon will take place online from April 28-30. Anyone who is currently attending middle school, high school, or college is able to participate.

Details are subject to change without notice.

Requirements

All projects must be submitted before 11:59 PM PST on April 29th. For submissions, we need:

A short written passage about your project, the inspirations for your project, how your project was built, its features, challenges you ran into, and future plans for your project (max of 100 words each). They can also be bullet points.
Your code, which is located on GitHub and is public.
It is also highly recommended, but not strictly required, to make a 5-minute max video either explaining or demoing your project. (Not having a video will likely hurt your score significantly)

Submission Rules

You cannot develop code before April 28th 4:00 PM PST
You cannot use any code or materials that were gathered or made before the hackathon (If you are unsure about something, ask in the discord)
You must only work with the people in your group (Getting input and help from the community is allowed)
You cannot plagiarize the work of others
Your team must not have more than four members
If you break any of these rules or our team has reason to believe that you are cheating, you will be immediately disqualified

Hackathon Sponsors

Prizes

$82,830 in prizes

Best Generative AI Hack

- $200 Cash Prize
- Taskade Lifetime Upgrades
- MLH T-Shirt
- MLH Winner Pin
- Wolfram|One Personal Edition plus a one-year subscription to Wolfram|Alpha Pro

Best Blockchain Hack

- $200 Cash Prize
- Taskade Lifetime Upgrades
- MLH T-Shirt
- MLH Winner Pin
- Wolfram|One Personal Edition plus a one-year subscription to Wolfram|Alpha Pro

2nd Place (One for Generative AI and One for Blockchain) (2)

- $100 Cash Prize
- Taskade Lifetime Upgrades
- Wolfram|One Personal Edition plus a one-year subscription to Wolfram|Alpha Pro

3nd Place (One for Generative AI and One for Blockchain) (2)

- $60 Cash Prize
- Taskade Lifetime Upgrades
- Wolfram|One Personal Edition plus a one-year subscription to Wolfram|Alpha Pro

Best Solo (One for Generative AI and One for Blockchain) (2)

- $50 Cash Prize
- Taskade Lifetime Upgrades
- MLH T-Shirt
- MLH Winner Pin
- Wolfram|One Personal Edition plus a one-year subscription to Wolfram|Alpha Pro

Best General Hack

- $120 Cash Prize
- Taskade Lifetime Upgrades
- MLH T-Shirt
- MLH Winner Pin
- Wolfram|One Personal Edition plus a one-year subscription to Wolfram|Alpha Pro

Best Use of Verbwire (10)

1. $1000 Prize pool for any team that implements the Verbwire API in their projects. We'll give a $25 gift card to each team member. (Top 40 team members, around 10+ teams)
2. 1 month free API credit ($45) for any team that implements our Verbwire API and hasn't won in the category

Requirements:
1. The project must have implemented the Verbwire API.

Most People Helped

- $20 Cash Prize
- One discord emote for our server

Best Pitch

- $15 per team member
- Meet one-on-one with our judge Johanna Feick (https://www.linkedin.com/in/johannafeick/) to get a review on your pitch and how to improve your pitching skills in general

MLH – Best Use of Google Cloud

Build your hackathon project with a suite of secure storage, integrated data analytics products, and more provided by Google Cloud. Each winning team member will receive a Google branded backpack.

MLH – Best .tech Domain from Domain.com

Register a .tech domain name using Domain.com during the weekend. Each winning team member will receive a Domain.com Branded Backpack.

MLH – Best Use of CockroachDB

Build your hackathon project on CockroachDB's open source and indestructible SQL database. PostgreSQL compatible and easy to use. Utilize CockroachDB in your hack for a chance to win a 3D printing pen for each team member.

MLH – Best Use of MATLAB

MATLAB and Simulink are computational tools used at over 100,000 businesses, government and university sites in over 190 countries. Use MATLAB and/or Simulink exclusively or integrate them into another tool for your next hack to win an exclusive MathWorks branded Wireless YoYo Speaker! You can also claim a free MATLAB software license to get started.

MLH – Best Accessibility Hack, Sponsored by Fidelity

At Fidelity, accessibility is viewed as a major key to the success of their business, which is why they are challenging you to come up with innovative ways to make tech more accessible! We want you to use your hacking skills to find and build solutions that put opportunities and resources within reach to all communities. The team with the best accessibility hack will win a Fidelity branded wireless charger for each team member!

All Participants (300)

- MLH T-Shirts (Only US-Participants) (While supplies last)
- Interview Cake course access (30 days)
- Free .xyz domains for a year
- MLH stickers and card
- Month access to Wolfram|One
- Verbwire Starter Membership
- 40% off Uizard's products

Judges

Girri M Palaniyapan
Founder at Nivi.ai

Paarth Chothani
Staff Software Engineer at Uber

Konstantin Telnoi
Senior Backend Developer at Simple

Johanna Feick
Product Manager & VP North America at VentureLabs

Ainur Gainetdinov
Deep Learning and Computer Vision Engineer at VicMan

Maksim Kalik
Senior Software Engineer at Triumph Labs

Dmitry Khorev
Senior Software Engineer at Mero

Viachaslau Matsukevich
Cloud Solutions Architect at Altoros

Anton Kalik
Senior Software Engineer at Amenitiz

Kari Groszewska
Coach at Major League Hacking

Judging Criteria

Creativity
Is the project a new idea? Does the project provide a new experience or simplify an existing workflow? (Worth 25 Points)
Practicality
Could this idea actually be implemented in real life? Would people be motivated to use it? Is it a functioning solution that can scale in the real world? (Worth 25 Points)
Presentation
Is the project pitched in a convincing and engaging manner? Is the idea presented clearly and in a way that's easy to approach? (Worth 20 Points)
Sophistication
Do the different parts of the code work well together? Does the project stand as an end-to-end project? Is the code well documented? Does the project create a comfortable user experience? (Worth 15 Points)
Theme
Blockchain: How well does the project interact with the blockchain? AI: How much does the project improve the user experience with Generative AI? How advanced is the implementation of Generative AI? General: Free Points (Worth 15 Points)