YHack Fall 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 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>

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!<br><br>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!<br>

Best Use of Terraform

HashiCorp Terraform is a source available infrastructure as code (IaC) tool that makes building, deploying, and managing your projects even easier! Whether you’re working in the cloud or using local resources, Terraform can make managing and configuring your application simple and organized. From deploying Machine Learning models to spinning up virtual containers for your web applications, Terraform supports a wide array of cloud providers and services, taking the guesswork out of your next hackathon project. <a target="_blank" href="https://mlh.link/terraform-docs">Dive into the documentation</a> and discover all the ways Terraform can take the way you hack to the next level! <br><br><a target="_blank" href="https://mlh.link/hashicorp-signup">Terraform’s community edition</a> is free to use with no credit card required! Utilize Terraform in your hackathon project this weekend for a chance to win some awesome Hashicorp prizes for you and each of your teammates! <br>

Best AI Project with Databricks Open Source

<p>Databricks is an open analytics platform that helps you build, deploy, and maintain large scale data &amp; AI solutions! Whether you’re working with large language models using <a href="https://mlh.link/databricks-mosaicai" target="_blank">Mosaic AI</a>, storing data with <a href="https://mlh.link/databricks-datalakes" target="_blank">Databricks Data Lakes</a>, or deploying GenAI powered applications using <a href="https://mlh.link/databricks-mlflow" target="_blank">MLflow</a>, Databricks Open Source software has the tools you need to make your hackathon project state of the art. <br></p><p><br>Build an AI powered project utilizing Databricks Open Source projects like the ones mentioned, or Databricks friendly Open Source projects like LanceDB and Llama Index, for a chance to win some amazing prizes for you and your teammates! Check out the following link to see all <a href="https://mlh.link/databricks" target="_blank">qualifying Databricks' Open Source technologies</a>. </p><br><br>

Best Domain Name from GoDaddy Registry

Education Track

Best DEI Hack sponsored by Fidelity

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Wolfram Award

Media/entertainment Track

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