Welcome to Hydra Hacks! Hydra Hacks is a virtual hackathon for marginalized genders on June 10-12. We aim to cultivate diversity in tech among young beginners and professionals. You may build or design whatever you like though participants may create and submit a project to a track of their choice! All you need is a computer, and if you want, a few friends to hack with.
Remember to apply at [bit.ly/hhacks22] for a chance to win $5k in hackathon prizes and raffles as well as free swag. Hydra Hacks also has a referral program by which the person with the most referrals by the end of hackathon receives $10.
Requirements
1. Work must be entirely completed during the hackathon hours.
2. You must submit a 3 minute (max) video demo!
3. You must be on a team of 1-4 people.
Prizes
First Overall
Apple Airpods (2nd Gen) per team member, Nuron swag, $100 donation to any Bay Area organization of their choice, and a cool trophy.
Second Overall
$50 Doordash e-Giftcards per team member, Nuron swag, and a cool trophy.
Third Overall
Amazon Echo Dots (4th Gen), Nuron swag, and a cool trophy.
Organizers' Choice
Exclusive Hydra Hacks Sweatshirts and a cool trophy.
Best Beginner Hack
Grove Beginner Kits for Arduino
Best Use of AssemblyAI API
Planning on building an application using speech recognition? AssemblyAI is offering $50 per team member for the most creative project built with AssemblyAI text-to-speech API!
Best Empowerment Hack
3 month Discord Nitro subscriptions and $250 Digital ocean credits
Best Data Science Hack
Fujifilm QuickSnap Flash 400 Disposable 35mm Camera and $150 Digital Ocean credits
Best Prototype Hack
1 month Adobe XD Subscriptions and and $100 Digital Ocean credits
Top 6 Overall
Product Hunt swag (T-shirt and stickers)
1 year subcription to Wolfram|One Personal Edition and Wolfram|Alpha Pro.
Judges
Tiffany Huang
Technical Lead at Nuro
Kyungmin (KK) Kim
Design Manager at Nuro
Yujie Li
Software Engineer at Robinhood
Isaac Griswold-Steiner
SWE at Nuro
Meliora Ho
CS Research at Fordham University
Rebecca Wang
Director at Hydra Hacks
Aneeva Murray
Organizer at Hydra Hacks
Judging Criteria
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Originality
Does it do something entirely novel, or at least take a fresh approach to an old problem? -
Execution
Is the hack usable in its current state? Is the user experience smooth? Does everything appear to work? Is it well designed? -
Applicability
Is the hack practical? Is it something people would actually use? Does it fulfill a real need people have? -
Presentation
How well was the project presented? Did it make the hack more compelling? Did it give a good idea of its purpose? -
Learning
Did the team stretch themselves? Did they try to learn something new? What kind of projects have they worked on before?
Questions? Email the hackathon manager