We’ve come a long way since our first hackathon. After five iterations of HackDartmouth and an in-person hackathon in two years, we’re more excited than ever to innovate this year!
This spring, HackDartmouth VII will again combine experiential learning with friendly competition. With company-sponsored workshops and the chance to develop and refine skills, we’re bringing hundreds of students from across the nation to learn, hack, and create for a weekend.
The day of the event features twenty-four hours of coding, swag, and amazing prizes! Mark your calendars for April 16-17, 2022!
Note: Only Dartmouth students are eligible to submit and cross-submissions to other hackathons are not allowed.
Prizes
First Place Health & Recovery - Fitbit Charge 5
Second Place Health & Recovery - Apple Pencil
First Place Empowerment - GAOMON Drawing Tablet
Second Place Empowerment - Amazon Echo
First Place AR/VR - Oculus Quest 2
Second Place AR/VR - Ember Mug
First Place Cultural Revitalization - Nintendo Switch Lite
Second Place Cultural Revitalization - JBL Flip 5
First Place Clean Tech - Airpods Pro
Second Place Clean Tech - Ember Mug
Google Cloud - First Place - Branded Backpack
Google Cloud - Second Place - Swag Box
Echo 3D - Sponsored Prize - 1-month FREE Business Plan
Digital Ocean - Sponsored Prize - Digital Ocean Credit
Contrary Capital - Sponsored Prize - Dinner with Sponsor
AngelList - Sponsored Prize - Startup Support
Mage AI - Sponsored Prize
MLH - Best Domain Name from Domain.com - Wireless Phone Chargers
Register a .tech domain name using Domain.com during the weekend. Each team may submit one entry per person on the team.
[Prize (per team member): PowerSquare Qi wireless phone charger]
MLH - Best Use of DeSo - $100 in $DESO + Tumbler
DeSo is the official Web3 sponsor of the MLH Hackathon League and the first Layer 1 blockchain custom-built for decentralized social media applications. While blockchains like Avalanche or Solana cost $0.50+ to store just a 200-character post, the DeSo blockchain is built with custom indexing and storage optimizations which make it 10,000X cheaper to store social content on-chain! In order to qualify for the contest, you must launch an app that writes to the DeSo blockchain and/or implements DeSo identity. While social media apps are a great fit for DeSo, you can also build financial apps, marketplaces, and more on the DeSo blockchain. For inspiration on project ideas, you can check out some of the existing 200+ apps already live on DeSo at Bithunt.com as well as our DeSo APIs.
[Prize (per team member): $100 worth of $DESO coin & an exclusive DeSo branded tumbler]
MLH - Best Blockchain Project Using Hedera - Glorious Modular Compact Mechanical Keyboards
Hedera is a next generation blockchain technology that's accessible from familiar programming languages like Java and JavaScript. Their goal? To make Web3 development even more accessible to hackers like you! Build a project on Hedera's test network for a chance to win amazing Glorious Modular Compact Keyboards for you and your team!
[Prize (per team member): Glorious Modular Compact Mechanical Keyboard]
MLH - Most Creative Use of Twilio - GameGo Console & Swag Box
Twilio allows you to incorporate mobile messaging, phone calls and a ton of other awesome communication features right into your hackathon project using web service APIs. Are you building an e-commerce website and want to send text notifications or email confirmations once an order is completed? Or maybe your application needs to verify users based on their mobile numbers? Twilio makes all this possible and more. Build a hack that simplifies your life using any one of Twilio’s APIs for a chance to win a Twilio Swag Box and GameGo Console for you and each of your teammates!
[Prize (per team member): Twilio GameGo Console & Swag Box]
Devpost Achievements
Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:
Judges
Xia Zhou
Associate Professor, Computer Science
Sebastian Joosten
Professor, Computer Science
Katherine Salesin
PhD Student, Computer Science
Colton Piper
Representative, TomTom
Kevin Lin
Student, Computer Science
Judging Criteria
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Health & Recovery
How might we improve how we treat health issues, including mental health? How might we facilitate smoother recovery for patients of different illnesses? -
Empowerment
Striving towards autonomy, self-determination, power, and confidence, how might we help improve the lives of the disabled, those in poverty, and members of marginalized or minority groups? -
AR/VR
How might we improve how we treat health issues, including mental health? How might we facilitate smoother recovery for patients of different illnesses? -
Cultural Revitalization
How might we bring new interest, relevancy, and life to different cultures, languages, and traditions to celebrate/spread our roots? -
Clean Tech
How might we reduce reliance on non-renewable resources and promote sustainability through and with technological development?
Questions? Email the hackathon manager
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