HackDavis 2023

Best Domain Name from Domain.com

Register a .Tech domain name using Domain.com during the weekend for your chance to win an awesome Domain.com branded prize for you and each member of your team! Each team may submit one entry per person on the team. The more creative the domain the better!<br>

Most Creative Use of GitHub

GitHub is one of the best ways to collaborate, push code, get feedback, and show the world what you’ve built during a hackathon. To take it a step further, GitHub is now offering you access to industry tools, events &amp; learning resources through something called GitHub Global Campus. Win this weekend’s Most Creative Use of GitHub prize category, first by signing up for GitHub Global Campus and second by using a GitHub repository to host your hackathon project’s code! Make sure your use of GitHub stands out with a detailed ReadMe page, meaningful pull requests and collaboration history, and even a GitHub pages deployment!<br><br>

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.<br>

Best Use of Microsoft Cloud for Your Community

Bring your idea to life using the Microsoft Cloud! Automatically build and deploy a full stack web app from a code repository, create and train a Machine Learning model, develop business applications with little to no code using Power Platform, and more. View our recommended popular solutions in the Education Hub at <a target="_blank" href="https://aka.ms/startedu">https://aka.ms/startedu</a>.<br><br>Build your hackathon project with the Microsoft Cloud that tackles a social impact issue of your choice, and have a chance to win a <a href="https://premium.linkedin.com/" target="_blank">LinkedIn Premium 12-Month subscription</a> and an <a href="https://www.xbox.com/xbox-game-pass?xr=shellnav%22%20%5Cl%20%22faq%22%20%5Co%20%22https://www.xbox.com/xbox-game-pass?xr=shellnav#faq" target="_blank">XBox Ultimate 3-Month Game Pass</a>.<br>

Best Beginner Hack

Best Design

Most Creative Hack

Best Healthcare Hack

Best Hack for Social Good

Best Aggie Reuse Store Hack

Karim Majdi Abou Najm Memorial Prize for Technical Complexity

Best Use of Retool

Best TreeDavis Hack

Best American Wild Horse Campaign (AWHC) Hack

Best Open Data Hack, sponsored by UC Davis DataLab

1st Place: The winning team will have their visualization printed and displayed in the DataLab in Shields Library, be invited to a DataLab luncheon, and invited to participate in DataLab’s internship program. 2nd Place: Swag bags. Projects must use at least one publicly accessible dataset that relates to UC Davis to address questions of interest to our campus community. For consideration for this award, the team must produce a GitHub repository with a readME, annotated code, and a reproducible static data visualization. The visualization should have an accompanying 1-page narrative describing the goals, methods, and interpretation of the project.

Best Hack for Local-Global Good, sponsored by UC Davis Global Affairs

Downtown Davis Gift Cards and Simply Modern Tumblers for each member of the winning team. The 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) address shared economic, social and environmental challenges. Innovative solutions are needed at the local level, informed by the experiences and perspectives of affected communities. For this category, teams should design an application that supports involvement with the SDGs and development of creative approaches to these challenges at the campus or local level – by students, community members and groups, or local government. Teams should specify how their project connects to the SDGs in their submission.

Best Interdisciplinary Hack, sponsored by the College of Letters & Science

Ice Cream Machine for each member of the winning team. At least one member of the team needs to be a non-CS/CSE/otherwise CS-related major in order to qualify. More specifically, we are looking for teams that leverage multiple perspectives of different disciplines to create a more well-rounded project.

Best Hardware Hack, sponsored by the UC Davis Student Startup Center

Drone Set for each member of the winning team. Projects must include a hardware component.