MacHacks

Best Use of Google Cloud

Build your hackathon project with a suite of secure storage, powerful compute, and integrated data analytics products provided by Google Cloud. See full list of products here: <a href="http://g.co/cloud" target="_blank">g.co/cloud</a>. Learn more about the tools and opportunities with Google Cloud by joining the Google Cloud Student Innovators program - <a href="http://goo.gle/student-innovators" target="_blank">goo.gle/student-innovators</a>. Winners will receive a Google Cloud branded backpack!<br><br>Be sure to redeem your Google Cloud Credits as soon as possible through the <a href="https://hackp.ac/googlecloudcredits" target="_blank">Google Cloud Credit Form</a>. Use the promo code in your pre-event email to access the form! <br>

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 Hardware Hack Presented by Digi-Key

<h4>Grove Beginner Kit, with embedded Arduino Uno compatible board<br> </h4><p>Grove Beginner Kit for Arduino is one of the best Arduino Beginner Kit for beginners. It includes one Arduino compatible Board and 10 additional Arduino sensors and all in one-piece of PCB design.<br></p><p>New to hardware? No problem. We've put together some great resources for you to start hacking with the Grove Beginner Kit!<br></p><p>⇩ ⇩ ⇩<br></p><ul> <li><p><a href="https://wiki.seeedstudio.com/Grove-Beginner-Kit-For-Arduino/" target="_blank"><u>Seeed Grove Beginner Kit product page</u></a><br></p></li> <li><p><a href="https://files.seeedstudio.com/wiki/Grove-Beginner-Kit-For-Arduino/res/Grove-Beginner-Kit-For-ArduinoPDF.pdf" target="_blank"><u>Grove Beginner Kit Manual</u></a><br></p></li> <li><p><a href="https://www.arduino.cc/en/software" target="_blank"><u>Arduino IDE download</u></a><br></p></li> <li><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14BI6blBJj0" target="_blank"><u>The Easiest Way to Get Started with Arduino (Video Walk-through)</u></a><br></p></li> </ul><br>

Best AR/VR Application Using the echoAR Platform

Best Environmental Hack

Best General AI Hack

Best Biotechnology, Health, and Safety Hack

Winners of this hack will win a Fitbit each for best demonstrating how AI can be used to live healthier and safer lives. All members of the team will receive the prize.

Best Quantum Computing Hack

Winners of this hack will win Beats headphones for creating the best quantum computing hack using IBM’s Qiskit. All members of the team will receive the prize.

Best Business Solutions Hacks

Winners of this hack will win a Samsung tablet. The occurrence of COVID-19 has directly negatively impacted many large and small businesses. How will you use AI to assist small and large businesses to help recover and thrive?

Best Materials Science Hack Challenge 1

This challenge will have hackers analyze crystallographic nodal data of typical microstructures found in formed metals to attempt to reproduce them with a desired grain size distribution. Hackers will implement RNN, GAN or any AI network to learn the sequential assignment of orientations on the crystallographic nodal graph to reproduce the learned distributions. Typically simulations like these on a large scale can take weeks to months to run, so any gains in performance will be rewarded bonus points! Grains Microstructure Challenge - Attached is a .docx file explaining the challenge - Attached is a text file of example data that hackers will have to generate https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1r-F1WzfE6OyOyIOgS0z-rmwx6UCLuwHn?usp=sharing The winning team will receive 600 dollars!

Best Material Science Hack Challenge 2

Phase Diagram Analysis This challenge will have hackers utilize hundreds of images of phase diagrams to discern key thermodynamic data that would be useful to materials scientists. Hackers are free to use any neural networks or image processing techniques of their choice. Challenge 1: Phase Diagram Challenge - Attached .PDF of the phase diagrams to be analyzed/scraped https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1r-F1WzfE6OyOyIOgS0z-rmwx6UCLuwHn?usp=sharing Two prizes of 200 hundred dollars available to win!

Best Data Science Hack Presented by Korbit.AI

Korbit.AI, an education platform that uses an AI powered tutor to teach students around the world about Data Science and AI, has presented the Best Science Hack: Coronavirus is a family of viruses that are named after their spiky crown. The novel coronavirus, also known as SARS-CoV-2, is a contagious respiratory virus that first reported in Wuhan, China. On 2/11/2020, the World Health Organization designated the name COVID-19 for the disease caused by the novel coronavirus. Explore COVID-19 through data analysis and projections. Use this link to access all challenge information: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1W3Pf_9e_naFXJpnaJCicLo3DdVRB514r/view?usp=sharing Winners will win a $50 Amazon gift card.