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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 Twilio

Twilio allows you to incorporate mobile messaging, phone calls and a ton of other awesome communication features right into your hackathon project using a web service API. Are you building an e-commerce website and want to send text notifications or email confirmations once an order is completed? Or maybe you'd like to verify users based on their mobile numbers? Twilio makes all this possible and more. Build a hack that simplifies your life using any Twilio API for a chance to win some awesome prizes! Get started with $50 in free credit!<br>

Best Use of Appwrite

Building a full-stack application can be time consuming, especially if you’re more of a frontend developer or lack experience with things like databases or authentication. At hackathons you want to make every minute count, which is why Appwrite is the missing ingredient to your recipe for a successful hack. With all the core backend functionalities you need already pre built and ready for customization, all you’ll need to do is make an API call to take advantage of an Appwrite database, media storage, user auth, and even custom compute functions. Use Appwrite in your hack this weekend for a chance to take home some Fitbits for you and your team. <br>

Best Sustainability Hack sponsored by Avanade

Avanade has put sustainable tech at the forefront of their ongoing mission! Sustainability is about conserving an ecological balance by avoiding depletion of natural resources and focusing efforts to reduce and improve the environmental impact of technology, processes, and operations on our planet and society. For your hackathon project, we want you to make a genuine human impact using your ingenuity to address sustainability through an innovative use of technology. Demonstrate how you can create a more sustainable future and help the environment. As an added bonus, the team with the best sustainability hack will be rewarded with awesome lego sets!<br>

Best Use of AWS

Best Hardware Hack presented by Digi-Key

Best Use of DeSo

[HACKUMASS] Best Healthcare Hack

[HACKUMASS] Best Beginner Software Hack

[HACKUMASS] Best Web Hack

[HACKUMASS] Best AI/ML Hack

[HACKUMASS] Best Mobile Hack

Best Blockchain Project Using Hedera

[HACKUMASS] Best Beginner Hardware Hack

[HACKUMASS] Cheapest Hardware Hack

[HACKUMASS] Best Hack That Doesn't Work

[HACKUMASS] Best Circuit Hack

[HACKUMASS] Funnest Hack

Most Creative Use of Twillio

Best Sustainability Hack by Avanade

[HACKUMASS] Best Mechanical Hack

[HACKUMASS] Grand Prize

Bose SoundLink Revolve (Series II) Portable Bluetooth Speaker + HackUMass XI Bear

[HACKUMASS] Third Prize

$125 Amazon Gift Card -- Sponsored by KPMG + HackUMass XI Bear

[HACKUMASS] Best Software Hack

Royal Kludge Mechanical Keyboard + HackUMass XI Bear

[HACKUMASS] Best Hardware Hack

Raspberry Pi 4 + HackUMass XI Bear

[HACKUMASS] Second Prize

Featuring Ducky's all-new QUACK Mechanics design philosophy, the Ducky One 3 Mini Classic sports a dual-layer hot-swap PCB with exclusive Kailh yellow hot-swap sockets, with a low-profile case design equipped with dual-layer high-grade silicone and EVA foam sound dampeners.