The Golden Hack 5.0

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>

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 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>

Most Creative Use of Redis Cloud

<a href="https://hackp.ac/redis-cloud-free" target="_blank">Redis Cloud</a> is the easiest way to build and scale real-time applications - Period! It includes Redis Stack, adding indexing, querying, full-text search, JSON, time-series, and probabilistic data structures to the already-rich set of features of Redis. <br><br>Redis Stack works with all of your favorite programming languages and can be added to any existing application. It’s the easiest way to build real-time applications that scale and perform.<br><br>Show us how you’ve used Redis Cloud in a way that showcases your unique and specific data structure needs and each member of your team could win a personal, portable Redis Stack server IOT hardware unit to keep developing on the go. Find out why Stack Overflow Developers have voted Redis their “most loved and admired” noSQL database for years-running by rolling Redis into your MLH Hackathon project.<br><br><a href="http://hackp.ac/redis-cloud-free" target="_blank">Sign up for your free Redis Cloud account</a>, and head over to <a href="https://hackp.ac/redis-university-mlh" target="_blank">the MLH jump off page</a> on <a href="http://hackp.ac/redis-university" target="_blank">Redis University</a> for more info and docs links. Enter coupon code MLHFall2023 to claim your Redis Cloud credits and get started for free!<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>

Sephora Challenge (for overall submissions) - sponsored by Sephora Canada

Environics Analytics Challenge - sponsored by Environics Analytics

Case Competition

Top 3 Overall - sponsored by Wolfram & Roku

For the 3 teams with the highest overall scores who are also able to prove the feasibility and innovatability of their solutions through a Devpost Submission and Demonstration. 1st - Wolfram Subscription, Bluetooth Headphones for each team member 2nd - Wolfram Subscription, Anker Soundcore Bluetooth Speaker for each team member 3rd - Wolfram Subscription, $25 Amazon Gift Card, Roku Stick each for each team member

Honourable Mention

Roku sticks for a project that the judges were very impressed with that was not able to be fit into any other category.