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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>

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 Auth0

Auth0 wants your applications to be secure! Why spend hours building features like social sign-in, Multi-Factor Authentication, and passwordless log-in when you can enable them through Auth0 straight out of the box? Auth0 is free to try, doesn’t require a credit card, and allows for up to 7,000 free active users and unlimited log-ins. <a href="https://mlh.link/auth0-signup" target="_blank">Make your new account today</a> and use any of <a href="https://mlh.link/auth0-docs" target="_blank">the Auth0 APIs</a> for a chance to win a pair of wireless headphones for you and each member of your team!<br>

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!<br>

Best Use of Soroban

Soroban is an open-source Rust-based developer-friendly smart contracts platform built for scalability. It is interoperable with the layer-1 Stellar blockchain and benefits from the network’s existing global reach and access. With Soroban, developers have the freedom to create applications as borderless as the internet.<br><br>Learning how to build Decentralized Applications (DAPPs) using Soroban is easy and fun. Simply follow along with the <a href="https://hackp.ac/soroban-challenge" target="_blank">DAPPs on Soroban challenge</a> by forking either of the Crowdfund or Payment repositories, and make the project your own with personalized customizations! The challenge link even has some simple walk-throughs available to help you get started.<br><br>Remember to customize your DAPP using Soroban this weekend for a chance to win a Power Bank for you and each of your teammates!<br><br>

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.<br><br>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!<br><br>To give you some inspiration, we're sharing some educational and technical resources:<br><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 <br> </li> <li>An introduction to the emerging field of <a href="http://hackp.ac/schmidt-LE-intro" target="_blank">Learning Engineering</a><br> </li> <li> <a href="http://hackp.ac/schmidt-ai-map" target="_blank">A map of AI in education</a><br> </li> <li>A <a href="http://hackp.ac/schmidt-LLM" target="_blank">recent competition series using LLMs</a> for automated essay evaluation<br> </li> </ul><br><br>

Best Use of Auth0

Best Education Hack

Best Social Issues Hack

[IBM & Elevance Health] Best AI-Driven Healthcare Explanation of Coverage Customer Care Solutions

Best Security Hack

[CincyTech] Best implementation of GPT-4 or other LLMs

Best Green Tech Hack

[Wolfram Research] Wolfram Award

[PRHI] Patient Safety Technology Challenge

Third Place Overall

Imported Challenge from Devpost Prize Winner

Second Place Overall

Imported Challenge from Devpost Prize Winner

First Place Overall

Imported Challenge from Devpost Prize Winner

[Kinetic Vision] Digital Twinning

Kinetic Vision works with a variety of partners to develop innovative solutions to complex engineering problems. Our Interactive and Simulation groups help several of our customers design and implement virtual environments that replicate their physical facilities. The purpose of these Digital Twins is to provide an analog to enable quick design, testing, and monitoring of live environments. A classic example is a factory, which we can scan and digitize so industrial engineers can simulate and iterate on layouts, workers can train immersively in AR or VR, and engineers can monitor the living plant remotely. For our challenge, we want you to make a rudimentary digital twin. The group with the most immersive, interactive, and innovative digital twin will win a mechanical keyboard for each team member and a custom Kinetic Vision keycap. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1711gPSfFeUQHUUUFjAo3t5TA9N0a-Pxp/view?usp=sharing