SpartaHack 9

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 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 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 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! <br>

Most Creative Adobe Express Add-On

<a href="https://mlh.link/adobe-xp" target="_blank">Adobe Express</a> is an AI-first, all-in-one content creation app that makes it fast, easy and fun to design and share videos, images, PDFs, flyers, TikToks, logos and more. Best of all, it’s free to get started. <br><br><a href="https://mlh.link/adobe-xp-addons" target="_blank">Add-ons in Adobe Express</a> are simply extensions and integrations that are built upon very powerful APIs. These APIs provide access to the user’s document, connections to third-party tools, and so much more. You can extend the functionality of Adobe Express using add-ons to unlock new capabilities and workflows. <a href="https://mlh.link/adobe-xp-inspo" target="_blank">Check out these add-ons</a> to see what other cool ideas developers have implemented!<br><br>For this hackathon, we want you to build a creative add-on for Adobe Express. Users are looking for add-ons that involve assets like stickers or icons, work with presentations and data visualization, and work in roles like marketing and  e-commerce. <a href="https://mlh.link/adobe-xp-tutorial" target="_blank">Build an Adobe Express add-on</a> this weekend for a chance to win a Wacom Wireless Drawing Tablet and JBL Go3 Speaker for you and each member of your team!<br><br>*You can also submit to this prize category if you have a prototype idea for an add-on or have a partially completed add-on. As long as you’ve built with Adobe Express, we want to see your hack!<br>

[MLH] Best Domain Name from GoDaddy Registry

[MLH] Best DEI Hack sponsored by Fidelity

[MLH] Most Creative Adobe Express Add-On

[MLH] Best Use of Auth0

[Interactive Media] Winner of the Track

[Interactive Media] Best Game

[MLH] Best AI Application Built with Cloudflare

[MLH] Best Use of MATLAB

[MSUFCU] MSUFCU Community Class Act Hack

[Dewpoint] Best Interactive Visualization Hack

[MSU IT] Best Hack to Improve the Spartan Experience

[Auto-Owners Insurance] Best Hack to Predict Loss

[Sustainability] Winner of the Track

[TechSmith] Best Hack to Contextualize Information

[All Tracks] Runner-up

Imported Challenge from Devpost Prize Winner

[All Tracks] Best Hack

Imported Challenge from Devpost Prize Winner

[Interactive Media] Best Artistic Application

$160 (split among team) You wonder how art and technology combine in the best way possible? The best artistic application in interactive media will show how that can be done! Hackers that also love different types of arts have this opportunity to showcase their two favorite worlds :)

[Sustainability] Alternative Energy

$160 (split among team) In today's world, one of the most urgent improvements we need is on our consumption of energy. The hackers that tackle this issue in the most technical and practical way will deserve this award! Let's use technology to improve the use of alternative energies for our future generations.

[Sustainability] Climate Change Mitigation

$160 (split among team) As we saw in the past years with the rise of temperatures on many places in the world, the world we live in today may not be proper for us in the future. Hackers that think this is an important issue to be addressed and that their knowledge could help mitigating this have a great chance of winning this award! Don't forget to be creative, many ideas have surged on how to solve this problem, and yet we still have it.

[Developer Tools] Winner of the Track

$400 (split among team) + Wolfram Bundle (ea. team member) echo "The Best Developer Tools Project!" For other people to create solutions for different problems in the world, we need those that can empower them to do so! What happens if there's no one aiming to improve our modern technologies and the lives of our developers? This award will be given to the project that best addresses the issues developers may face, impacts the experience of them, and how compatible it is with modern technologies.

[Developer Tools] Best Browser Extension

$160 (split among team) What is the most important skill of modern age? Knowing how to find information online! For that, all of us depend, in many ways, on browsers that were not made with our specific needs in mind:/. So, this is an opportunity for hackers to solve the pain many people suffer daily when interacting with their browser!

[Developer Tools] Best IDE Extension

$160 (split among team) While most of the 600+ participants are coding, you can see that MANY of them have struggles that could easily be solved by an extension in their IDE. As a way to help the whole community of developers, this award motivates those that want to tackle these issues is software development by creating the most impactful and technical IDE extension in the event!

[Exploratory] Winner of the Track

$400 (split among team) + Wolfram Bundle (ea. team member) The best project in the Exploratory track! Have you ever wondered how you can demonstrate a great knowledge on a specific area and solve many world problems with it? The winner of the Exploratory track is the impersonation of that! The project that will receive this award will have a great balance of knowledge and scalability, as any great solution should.

[Exploratory] Best Usage of Niche Concepts

$160 (split among team) All of us have our niche interests that we want to create solutions for. Those that go deeply into these complex topics while bringing a great solution to their field are worthy of this award! Demonstrated knowledge is an important aspect of this award, you may see it as your chance to learn new things you would never imagine you could!

[Exploratory] Best Pioneering Solution

$160 (split among team) Hello inventors and dreamers! Those of you that want to delve into your creativity and be part of a vanguard of hackers have a chance of winning this award. For your project to be considered the best pioneering solution, you need to innovate as best as you can in your area of niche interest. Don't be afraid of trying crazy ideas, that's how the best solutions are created!

[Fintech] Winner of the Track

$400 (split among team) + Wolfram Bundle (ea. team member) The best project in the Fintech track! In modern age, there are two great pillars of society that are in constant change: Currencies, and Technology. With the advent of Crypto, Open Banking, and many other solutions, we need those that want to adventure in this futuristic and economic world to improve the lives of others around them! This award will be given to the project with the biggest Economic Impact, Ethical Consideration and Solution, and overall technological implementation.

[Fintech] Best Usage of Digital Currency

$160 (split among team) Since the white paper by Nakamoto, the whole concept of currency has been shaken. With crypto and other digital currencies, our world is in a monetary revolution! Those that win this award are the representation of this. They have extracted the best they could of digital currencies and made their own solution on the area!

[Fintech] Best Usage of Open Banking

$160 (split among team) Information is money. This is the reason why banks and other financial institutions all around the world value their telemetry so much, and have adopted the strategy of open banking. The hackers with the most impactful use of Open Banking will receive this award and show how useful this new concept is!

[Comedy] Winner of the Track

$300 (split among team) + Wolfram Bundle (ea. team member) The best project in the Comedy track! SpartaHack is about fun and enjoyment, so this year we are going to give awards to those that make us laugh the most :). Simple isn't it? If you don't make half the participants forever remember your hack by being one of the silliest things they've ever seen in a hackathon, don't even think you will win! This award will be given to the silliest williest, funny wonnie, most comedic project of the event!

[Comedy] Most Viral Comedy Application

$160 + NordVPN, NordPass, Incogni (ea. team member) When talking about what is funny, each person has their opinion. However, throughout history, we agreed with many things! That's why we have social medias nowadays, the ability of a comedy project to be replicated many times is also a great sign of success :D. The most viral comedy application brings this idea that a funny idea that can become viral in society has great power in improving the lives of others.