RiverHacks 2024

Best Domain Name from GoDaddy Registry

GoDaddy Registry is giving you everything you need to be the best hacker no matter where you are. Register your domain name with GoDaddy Registry for a chance to win a Hack from Home Kit! Each Kit contains an assortment of awesome swag along with a tote for easy transport.<br>

Best Use of MATLAB

MATLAB and Simulink are computational tools used at over 100,000 businesses, government and university sites in over 190 countries. Use MATLAB and/or Simulink exclusively or integrate them into another tool for your next hack to win an exclusive MathWorks branded Wireless YoYo Speaker! You can also claim a free MATLAB software license to get started.<br>

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.<br><br>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.<br><br>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. <br><br>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.<br><br>Wanna be a part of this growing community? Let’s get you started!<br><ul> <li> <a target="_blank" href="https://book.starknet.io/">https://book.starknet.io/</a><br> </li> <li> <a target="_blank" href="https://book.dojoengine.org/">https://book.dojoengine.org/</a><br> </li> <li> <a target="_blank" href="https://www.gizatech.xyz/">https://www.gizatech.xyz/</a><br> </li> </ul>

Best Use of Kintone

Still not sure what backend to use in your hack? <a href="https://hackp.ac/kintone" target="_blank">Kintone</a> is a low-code web database that lets you set up your backend in minutes. It's beginner friendly, allowing you to customize your Kintone app using nothing but JavaScript and HTML. Your team can snag a FREE microcontroller by <a href="https://hackp.ac/kintone-developer-license" target="_blank">signing up for Kintone</a> and visiting the MLH table, and if you <a href="https://hackp.ac/kintone-hackathon-idea" target="_blank">use Kintone in your hackathon project</a>, you'll have a chance to win a breadboard IoT kit to power up the hardware hacking for each member of your team!<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 Domain Name from GoDaddy Registry

Best Pitch

Best Use of Starknet

Best Cloud Hack

1st Place Overall

Imported Challenge from Devpost Prize Winner

2nd Place Overall

Imported Challenge from Devpost Prize Winner

Most Y2K/Nostalgic

4 x Tamagotchis

Best Frontend Design

4 x Super Mario Lego Set (Piranha Plant)