SF Hacks 2024

Challenges

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.

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 Flow

Flow is a public, decentralized, layer-one blockchain designed for creating limitless Web3 apps for mainstream adoption. Flow empowers hackers like you to build decentralized applications and share them with the world. Write safe and readable smart contracts with Cadence and explore the potential of composable, on-chain logic. With <a href="https://mlh.link/flow-sdk" target="_blank">SDKs</a> in multiple languages like Javascript, Go, Kotlin, Python, Swift, Unity, you can jump in and <a href="https://mlh.link/flow-gettingstarted" target="_blank">start your hack using Flow</a> this weekend for a chance to win $200 USD worth of FLOW token for each member of your team!

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!

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>

Sauce Labs Hot Sauce Raffle

<a href="https://mlh.link/saucelabs-docs" target="_blank">Sauce Labs</a> empowers you to develop, test, and deliver top-tier web and mobile apps quickly and efficiently. Their unified platform makes automated testing and error monitoring easy to do, enabling you to save time building your hackathon project! Let Sauce Labs help resolve any issues with your code so you can get back to building an award winning hack. Make sure your project is hackathon-tested by signing up for a Sauce Labs account! To spice things up even more, we're running the Sauce Labs Hot Sauce naming raffle and selecting up to 4 individual winners at this event. To qualify come up with a cool hot sauce name and submit it to the <a href="https://mlh.link/SauceRaffle" target="_blank">Sauce Labs raffle form</a> for a chance to win a cool prize!

MLH: Best Domain Name from GoDaddy Registry

MLH: Best Use of Flow

[MLH] Best Use of Kintone

MLH: Best DEI Hack sponsored by Fidelity

MLH: Best Use of AI in Education

[MLH] Sauce Labs Raffle

SF Hacks: Best Hardware Hack

SF Hacks: Best AI Hack

This challenge invites you to develop an AI or use an existing AI in your project. Prize: OpenAI Swag Bags with GPT Plus sponsored by OpenAI & Echo Dots

SF Hacks: Best Sustainability Hack

Develop a hack that provides an innovative and practical solution that promotes sustainable development. Prize: Air Fryer

SF Hacks: Best Design Hack

Develop a hack with innovative and visually appealing user interfaces (UI) and user experiences (UX). Prize: Dell 27 Inch Monitor

SF Hacks: Best First Time Hack

You are eligible for this category if at least half of your team is made of 1st time hackers. Prize: Airpods 3rd Generation sponsored by Fastly

Company Track: Best Use of AI and Verbwire API

Top 15 Teams who use the Verbwire API and AI get premium API credits

Company Track: Most Innovative Use of Verbwire API

Top 5 Teams who use the Verbwire API get premium API credits

Company Track: Best Use of Vectara

1st Place: $1000 Vectara Credits 2nd Place: $500 Vectara Credits

Company Track: Best Use of Neurelo

Apple Magic Keyboard

Company Track: Best Use of Neurelo with Hackathon Theme

Sony Noise Cancelling Headphones with Mic

Company Track: Best Use of Fireworks.ai

1st Place: $1000 Fireworks.ai Credits 2nd Place: $500 Fireworks.ai Credits

Company Track: Best Emerging Technology

GoPro Cameras sponsored by Emerging Technologies Initiative

Company Track: Best Use of Coze

Nintendo Switch Lites sponsored by Bytedance/Coze

Company Track: Best Use of Google Cloud

Google Cloud Branded Backpacks and Water Bottles

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