About the challenge
Our Golden Purpose is to cultivate a collaborative ecosystem where business, design, and technology students can connect!
The GoldenHack is an entrepreneurial hackathon that is aimed at bringing the business and technology worlds together. By exposing business and design students to the challenges faced by technology and technology students to challenges faced by business and design, students gain an appreciation for each other’s skills and a view of the issues faced. The GoldenHack prides itself in helping students expand beyond their comfort zone, engage in new opportunities, and improve themselves as thinkers, learners and contributors to the community.
Requirements
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Create a Devpost submission and invite all of your group members
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Create a video (max 3 min) describing your project and demoing it
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It must be published on youtube or vimeo (can be unlisted)
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The devpost submission requires a link to the video demo
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Opt-in to any challenges your team would like to be considered for
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Link your GitHub repository and make sure it's public (if applicable)
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Submit your project!
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Ensure that The GoldenHack 4.0 appears on your project page after your submission! You will NOT be judged otherwise, so please make sure you get this right! Contact an organizer immediately if it is not there.
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Cross-submitting your project with other events will result in disqualification.
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Comply with all of our Event Rules and the MLH Code of Conduct
Prizes
Top 5 Business Solutions
1st place team winner: $300 cash prize
Top 5 winners: One year subscription for Wolfram|One Personal Edition plus a one-year subscription to Wolfram|Alpha Pro for each team member.
Technical Demo
1st place prize - $250 DigitalOcean credit for each team member
2nd place prize - $125 DigitalOcean credit for each team member
Highest overall score
The team with the highest overall (business + tech) scores will receive Roku streaming sticks + a $400 cash prize.
Best Use of DeSo
$100 worth of $DESO coin & an exclusive DeSo Tumbler
DeSo is the official Web3 sponsor of the MLH Hackathon League and the first Layer 1 blockchain custom-built for decentralized social media applications. While a blockchain like Avalanche costs $0.50+ to store just a 200-character post, the DeSo blockchain is built with custom indexing and storage optimizations which make it 10,000X cheaper to store social content on-chain! In order to qualify for the contest, you must launch an app that writes to the DeSo blockchain and implements DeSo identity. While social media apps are a great fit for DeSo, you can also build financial apps, marketplaces, and more on the DeSo blockchain. For inspiration on project ideas, you can check out some of the existing 200+ apps already live on DeSo at Bithunt.com as well as our DeSo APIs. The Best Use of DeSo gets $100 worth of $DESO coin & an exclusive DeSo branded tumbler!
Best Domain Name from Domain.com
Domain.com Branded Backpack
Register a .Tech domain name using Domain.com during the weekend for your chance to win a Domain.com branded backpack for you and each member of your team! Each team may submit one entry per person on the team. The more creative the domain the better!
Best Accessibility Hack sponsored by Fidelity
Fidelity Branded Wireless Charger
At Fidelity, accessibility is viewed as a major key to the success of their business, which is why they are challenging you to come up with innovative ways to make tech more accessible! We want you to use your hacking skills to find and build solutions that put opportunities and resources within reach to all communities. The team with the best accessibility hack will win a Fidelity branded wireless charger for each team member!
Best use of Google Cloud
Google Cloud Swag Bag or Backpack
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: g.co/cloud. Winners located in the US will receive a Google Cloud Swag Bag complete with a beanie, Android pillow, journal, socks & lanyards. Winners outside of the US will receive a Google Cloud branded backpack.
Best Use of Velo by Wix
Wacom Drawing Tablet
We know how difficult it can be to create a phenomenal website in a short period of time, especially when it comes to hackathons. Velo by Wix cuts down your development without sacrificing on functionality! With a built-in database and fully customizable JavaScript front-end and back-end, you can develop a full-stack application directly in your browser. With Velo, all the tools you need are conveniently located in one platform! Build your hackathon project with Velo by Wix for a chance to win Wacom Drawing Tablets for you and each of your teammates.
Devpost Achievements
Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:
Judges
Stephanie Mills
Thiel Fellow & Founder of CodeGem
Chris Halabecki
Team Lead at TD Lab
Fatima Mian
Community Manager at Caddy
Suchit Dubey
Staff Product Designer at Uber Freight
Kira Han
President at The GoldenHack
Judging Criteria
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Technical Innovation and Implementation
The team identified a unique problem and provided an innovative solution to it. How technically complex the problem is and tools used to develop the solution will be taken into account by judges. Self built tools will be ranked higher. -
Execution
Does the product function and in a way that is described? Scores in the middle with have individual components working and have communicated what the next steps to completing the product would be. -
Creativity
Creativity can be shown in a variety of ways! It can be through taking an out of the box approach to solving an existing problem or implementing a technical component in an interesting way. -
Design
High scorer will have taken user experience and their user interface into account. Ease of use/end user consideration for the product will be judged. In addition, the overall visual cohesiveness of the presentation, including slideshow will be assessed. -
Business Model
Thought should be put into how the idea would be put on the market and its economic feasibility. How will customer obtain and use the product? High scorers may also address scalability and overall business sustainability. -
Pitch
The pitch should contain content that is extremely effective at persuading the audience of the strength of the business opportunity and how your solution addresses the problem. Presenters should appear practiced and professional with smooth transitions.
Questions? Email the hackathon manager
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