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Best DEI Hack sponsored by Fidelity

At Fidelity, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion are viewed as major keys to the success of their business, which is why they are challenging you to come up with innovative ways to create forward-thinking financial tech that promotes equality for all people! We want you to use your hacking skills to find and build solutions that put financial opportunities and resources within reach for all communities, creating accessible, sustainable, and/or inclusive solutions. The team with the best hack will win a Fidelity branded wireless charger for each team member! <br>

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!<br><br>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!<br>

Best Use of Midnight

<p>Midnight is a data protection blockchain that offers programmable data protection capabilities powered by zero-knowledge technology to address the delicate balance between data protection, ownership, and utilization. This ensures that developers can leverage blockchain technology without exposing confidential information or losing control over their data.<br></p><br><p>To build on Midnight, all you need is familiarity with TypeScript or a similar JavaScript based library. The service is free to use and their developer documentation has all the information you need to get started. Build a DApp using Midnight this weekend for a chance to win wireless headphones for you and each of your team mates!<br></p><br>

Best AI Project with Databricks Open Source

<p>Databricks is an open analytics platform that helps you build, deploy, and maintain large scale data &amp; AI solutions! Whether you’re working with large language models using <a href="https://mlh.link/databricks-mosaicai" target="_blank">Mosaic AI</a>, storing data with <a href="https://mlh.link/databricks-datalakes" target="_blank">Databricks Data Lakes</a>, or deploying GenAI powered applications using <a href="https://mlh.link/databricks-mlflow" target="_blank">MLflow</a>, Databricks Open Source software has the tools you need to make your hackathon project state of the art. <br></p><p><br>Build an AI powered project utilizing Databricks Open Source projects like the ones mentioned, or Databricks friendly Open Source projects like LanceDB and Llama Index, for a chance to win some amazing prizes for you and your teammates! Check out the following link to see all <a href="https://mlh.link/databricks" target="_blank">qualifying Databricks' Open Source technologies</a>. </p><br><br>

Education Track

Best DEI Hack sponsored by Fidelity

Social Good Track

Best Newbie Hack

Best App Focusing on Mental Health sponsored by NTICe

Best Security Hack sponsored by Nord Security

Best UI/UX Design

Maverick Track

Best Failure To Launch

Best NTICE Logo/Website Mockup

Best Productivity Hack sponsored by GodSpeed

Best Solo

Neurotech Track

Imported Challenge from Devpost Prize Winner

Transit Track

Prize: $800 cash split between three teams. The members of three winning teams for the Transit track will receive a cash prize out of an $800 total. NJ TRANSIT will determine the exact amount each team receives.