DragonHacks 2024

Challenges

Best Use of Taipy

Taipy is a powerful yet easy to use open-source Python library for creating full stack web applications! If you’re a Python developer, this library enables you to build interactive and dynamic graphical user interfaces and support them with data-driven backends. All of these functionalities are just a pip install taipy away and can cut your development time in half! Use Taipy in your hackathon project for a chance to win a set of Wireless Headphones for you and each of your team members, as well as a chance to have your project featured on the Taipy website!

Best Use of Starknet

Starknet is redefining the very notion of Web3 by tackling one of the most intimidating technical challenges in the industry - scaling a blockchain while maintaining its security and decentralization. Starknet was the first general purpose ZK-Rollup service on Ethereum in Feb. 2022, and has proved its potential to be a market leader. Essentially, it increases the processing speed, while reducing the cost of operating on the Ethereum blockchain. As a result, we are seeing a variety of “traditional” tech businesses - payments / social media / AI / online gaming - now being integrated with blockchains using our technology. Moreover, the Starknet community is a growing pool of global talent - from feisty college students to some of the most illustrious PhDs in the world. Wanna be a part of this growing community? Let’s get you started! <ul> <li> <a target="_blank" href="https://book.starknet.io/">https://book.starknet.io/</a> </li> <li> <a target="_blank" href="https://book.dojoengine.org/">https://book.dojoengine.org/</a> </li> <li> <a target="_blank" href="https://www.gizatech.xyz/">https://www.gizatech.xyz/</a> </li> </ul>

Best Use of AI in Education

Artificial Intelligence (AI) models, such as large language models (LLMs), are transforming how we interact with computers. During this weekend's hackathon, we want you to apply AI towards improving education to produce tools that support the quality, accessibility, and equitability of learning in today's classrooms. You can use AI to address any challenge teachers and students face, such as curriculum planning, question selection, teacher training, content generation, personalized feedback, automated grading and more. For this challenge, we encourage you to draw on your own educational experiences and propose technical solutions to problems you've regularly encountered as students — after all, you are the best to know where our education system needs improvement. Design impactful and effective AI tools for education for a chance to win a TickTime Pomodoro Timer! To give you some inspiration, we're sharing some educational and technical resources: <ul> <li> <a href="http://hackp.ac/schmidt-LE-challenges" target="_blank">This list</a> of the most pressing issues educational leaders have around AI </li> <li>An introduction to the emerging field of <a href="http://hackp.ac/schmidt-LE-intro" target="_blank">Learning Engineering</a> </li> <li> <a href="http://hackp.ac/schmidt-ai-map" target="_blank">A map of AI in education</a> </li> <li>A <a href="http://hackp.ac/schmidt-LLM" target="_blank">recent competition series using LLMs</a> for automated essay evaluation </li> </ul>

Sauce Labs Hot Sauce Raffle

<a href="https://mlh.link/saucelabs-docs" target="_blank">Sauce Labs</a> 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 <a href="https://mlh.link/SauceRaffle" target="_blank">Sauce Labs raffle form</a> for a chance to win a cool prize!

Best Use of AI & Verbwire API

Most Innovative Use Of Verbwire API

Education Track

Best Use of Starknet

CodeCrafters.io Special Prize for the Overall Winner

Beginner's Choice Award

Sauce Labs Raffle

Organizers' Choice Award

The Organizers' Choice Award will be given to the team organizers deem the best. Prize: Logitech G PRO Mechanical Gaming Keyboard (for every member)

Entertainment and Interaction Track

Craft spellbinding experiences that captivate audiences with unparalleled creativity. The Entertainment & Interaction Track Prize honors the team that delivers the most engaging and immersive project, designed to entertain and captivate audiences. This category celebrates innovations in gaming, virtual reality, augmented reality, interactive storytelling, and other forms of digital entertainment that push the boundaries of creativity and engagement. Prize: Nintendo Switch Lite

Personal Safety Track

Unleash your innovative prowess and safeguard the digital and physical realms! Craft cutting-edge solutions that shield our modern lives from lurking threats. From fortifying cyber defenses to revolutionizing physical security, let your creativity soar as you engineer groundbreaking personal safety marvels. Innovate wearable devices, smart home solutions, or cutting-edge apps that empower individuals to feel secure in any environment. Prize: 50 inch 4K UHD Smart Google TV

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