Rice University's Annual Fall Hackathon
HackRice 9 in Rice University's Fall 2019 hackathon! Come design, build, and code while meeting sponsors, eating good food, and having fun! Check out everything you need to know at hack.rice.edu!
Prizes
$14,180 in prizes
General Prize: 1st Place
LG 4k Monitors
General Prize: 2nd Place
Oculus Go VR Headsets
General Prize: 3rd Place
JLB Bluetooth Speakers
First Timers Track (4)
Nintendo Switches
Data Science & ML Track (4)
Bose Speaker Sunglasses
Ethics Track (4)
Expensive Dinner with CS Staff -OR- $500 donation to charity of your choice
Design Track (4)
Polaroid Cameras
Chevron Challenge: Workload Scheduler (4)
Nintendo Switches
Two Sigma Challenge: Best DataSci Usage (4)
Prize TBA
JP Morgan Chase Challenge: Best Hack for Social Good (4)
Bose Wireless Headphones
Schlumberger Challenge: Best Usage of Machine Learning (12)
Raspberry Pi 4
Capital One Challenge: Best Financial Hack (4)
$250 Amazon Gift Cards
Facebook Challenge: Most Algorithmically Complex (4)
Oculus Go VR Headsets
Bill.com Challenge: Best Bill.com Integration (4)
Take home one of the tech devices you integrated Bill.com with!
ForeFlight Challenge: Best Flight Recommender (4)
$100 Apple Store Giftcards
Best use of Google Cloud
Google Home Minis for each team member.
Best Domain Name from Domain.com
Domain.com branded backpack for each team member.
Best Automation Hack with UiPath
Build an automation hack using UiPath! Each winning team member will receive a UiPath/MLH Branded Backpack and DROCON Drone!
Best use of Transposit
Only 24 hours to create your project? No problem, Create an app and compose different APIs together with the world's first API composition platform, Transposit. Each winning team member will receive a $50 Amazon gift card.
MLH Best Automation Hack Using UI Path (4)
Winners will get UIPath and MLH co-branded backpacks and DROCON drones
MLH Best Use of Google Cloud (4)
Winners will get Google Home Minis
MLH Best Domain Registered with Domain.com (4)
Winners will get Domain.com backpacks
MLH Best Use of Transposit (4)
Winners will get $50 Amazon gift cards
Devpost Achievements
Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:
Judges

TBA
Judging Criteria
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Technical Difficulty
We are looking for technically advanced solutions to technically challenging problems that make use of hardware and API's.That being said, if you can solve a technically challenging problem with a simple solution, we will be very impressed! -
Design & Polish
We are looking for aesthetically pleasing projects with smooth and clear user experience. -
Creativity
We are looking for original ideas or new angles on existing ideas. For example, using an API in a unique way. We know API's work - we want to see if you can do something new and awesome with them! -
Practicality & Usefulness
We are looking for socially good projects that people would use. Additionally, we would like to emphasize that we will extensively check to make sure that your project doesn't only work on the cases you demo.