PickHacks 2024

Challenges

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!

Best Use of Starknet

Starknet is redefining the very notion of Web3 by tackling one of the most intimidating technical challenges in the industry - scaling a blockchain while maintaining its security and decentralization. Starknet was the first general purpose ZK-Rollup service on Ethereum in Feb. 2022, and has proved its potential to be a market leader. Essentially, it increases the processing speed, while reducing the cost of operating on the Ethereum blockchain. As a result, we are seeing a variety of “traditional” tech businesses - payments / social media / AI / online gaming - now being integrated with blockchains using our technology. Moreover, the Starknet community is a growing pool of global talent - from feisty college students to some of the most illustrious PhDs in the world. Wanna be a part of this growing community? Let’s get you started! <ul> <li> <a target="_blank" href="https://book.starknet.io/">https://book.starknet.io/</a> </li> <li> <a target="_blank" href="https://book.dojoengine.org/">https://book.dojoengine.org/</a> </li> <li> <a target="_blank" href="https://www.gizatech.xyz/">https://www.gizatech.xyz/</a> </li> </ul>

Best Use of TinyMCE

<a href="https://mlh.link/tinymce" target="_blank">TinyMCE</a> is a rich-text editor that allows you to create formatted content within a hacker-friendly interface. Adding a <a href="https://mlh.link/tinyMCE-docs" target="_blank">Rich Text Editor component</a> has never been easier! Alongside functionality like bold, italics, underlines, hyperlinks, or titles (to name a few), the editor also allows users to enable HTML tags, MarkDown or CSS. TinyMCE even gives you the ability to edit your text elements directly with no code, similar to the way you would edit a word document but with even more practical hackathon use cases. TinyMCE also has <a href="https://mlh.link/tinymce-plugins" target="_blank">dozens of plugins</a> that allow developers to customize their user’s experience. From implementing accessibility checkers, autocorrect, and enhanced image editing to utilizing emoticons, adding responsive design with auto resize and even a ChatGPT AI Assistant. If your hackathon project accepts ANY type of text input, you can use TinyMCE to take it to the next level. Signup for TinyMCE for a free trial and get started today, no credit card required! To qualify for the Best Use of TinyMCE prize category, be sure to render the editor with a Tiny Cloud account for a chance to win a 3D Printing Pen for you and each of your team members!

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

Best Beginner Hack

Best DEI Hack sponsored by Fidelity

Best Use of Starknet

Best Hardware Hack

Best Women's Hack

Best Solo Hack

Raffle Prizes

3rd Place Overall

Imported Challenge from Devpost Prize Winner

1st Place Overall

Imported Challenge from Devpost Prize Winner

2nd Place Overall

Imported Challenge from Devpost Prize Winner

Community Vote

The winning team will receive four $50 Amazon gift cards. The hack that receives the most votes on Devpost (and hasn't won one of our other prizes) will be awarded our community vote prize. Community Vote opens on April 7th at 11:00 a.m. and closes at 1:30 p.m.

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