The GoldenHack team is composed of developers, founders, innovators, and most importantly, friends! We want to bring our love of innovation, collaboration and technology to Wilfrid Laurier University and make the most of its talented business and design students.
Prizes
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
Sephora Challenge (for overall submissions) - sponsored by Sephora Canada
For the team with the best business idea that is reflected in their demonstration. Participants will be judged on creativity, feasibility, completeness, and effectiveness of their creation at solving a business or consumer need.
1st - $125 Amazon Gift Card, Sephora Prize Pack with Coffee Chat, Wolfram Subscription for each Team Member
Environics Analytics Challenge - sponsored by Environics Analytics
For the team with the best solution to the Environics Challenge (you will still be eligible for top 3 and Sephora Challenge prizes if you participate in this challenge!)
1st - A chance to come down to the Environics office in downtown Toronto, meet some executives, have a lunch on them, and present their demo to some of their team! (A recorded demo is ok.)
Case Competition
Top 2 solutions to the case challenge! Cases will be judged on creativity, technical innovation (mock-ups, etc), overall completeness, and more (see rubric).
1st - Echo Dot, Wolfram Subscription for each team member
2nd - Wolfram Subscription, Backpack
Most Creative Use of Redis Cloud
Libre Mini Computer with Redis Stack Server Pre-Installed
Redis Cloud 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.
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.
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.
Best Use of Streamlit
Pimoroni PicoSystem Handheld Programmable Gaming System
Want to take your Python skills to the next level? Streamlit is an open-source Python library that makes it easy to share and build custom web apps for machine learning, data science, and more. Instead of writing Python scripts without a UI, you can create a beautiful web app, complete with widgets and data visualizations, and deploy it for free to the Streamlit Community Cloud. You can even build a fully functional LLM-powered app with just 25 lines of code! Hack with Streamlit this weekend for your chance to win some awesome tech hardware for you and each member of your team.
Best Use of Google Cloud
Google Cloud 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. Learn more about the tools and opportunities with Google Cloud by joining the Google Cloud Student Innovators program - goo.gle/student-innovators. Winners will receive a Google Cloud branded backpack!
Be sure to redeem your Google Cloud Credits as soon as possible through the Google Cloud Credit Form. Use the promo code in your pre-event email to access the form!
Best Use of Taipy
JBL Wireless Headphones
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!
Best Use of Kintone
Breadboard IoT Kit
Still not sure what backend to use in your hack? Kintone 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. If you're interested in IoT, your team can snag a FREE microcontroller by signing up for Kintone and visiting the MLH table. If you use Kintone in your hackathon project, you'll have a chance to win a breadboard IoT kit to power up the hardware hacking for each member of your team!
Best Use of AI in Education
TickTime Pomodoro Timer
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.
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!
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.
Devpost Achievements
Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:
Judges
Komal Noor
Andrew Komaromy
Aayush Sheth
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 the tools used to develop the solution will be taken into account by judges. -
Execution
Does the product function? Does it function in a way that is described? Scores in the middle will 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
The front-end is just as important as everything that goes on behind the scenes. High scorer will have taken user experience and their user interface into account. The ease of use and end user consideration for the product will be judged. -
Business model
Thought should be put into how the idea would be put on the market and its economic feasibility. How will the customer obtain and use the product? High scorers may also address scalability and overall business sustainability. -
Addressing the main issue of the business case
The team’s technical solution should be directly related to solving the case and the team should clearly state how their solution works to address the problem. -
Analytical tools
The team’s business solution is backed by extensive market research and mentions underlying company issues presented in the case that their solution addresses and solves. -
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.
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