HackMIT is MIT’s premier hackathon. On October 4-5, over 1,000 students will converge at MIT to create, innovate, and build software and hardware projects over a 24-hour period. Our focus on cutting-edge technologies—including Bitcoin, emerging hardware interfaces, and new software languages—makes HackMIT truly unique.
Eligibility
Registered attendees of HackMIT
All undergraduate students from any university are welcome. Non-MIT students must be 18 or older. Unfortunately, high school students and graduate students cannot attend.
Don't forget to bring your valid student ID!
Requirements
Submissions must contain the following:
- Screen shots of you project.
- An accurate description of what it does.
- All team members must be added on the submission form.
- Table number so judges know where to find you.
Prizes
$22,250 in prizes
Grand Prize: 1st place
1st place will receive additional prizes from two of our sponsors, Yelp and Ziggeo.
Grand Prize: 2nd place
Grand Prize: 3rd place
Grand Prize: 4th - 8th place
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Best Novice Hack
Big jamboxes (1 per team member)
Best Cryptocurrency Hack
1 Bitcoin for the team
Best Hack for Social Good
$1000 donation to charity of choice
Best MIT-related Hack
$200 in TechCASH per MIT student member of the winning team, or $200 in cash per non-MIT team member
Best Hardware Hack
$200 Sparkfun gift card (1 per team member)
The CATMIT Award
Nyancat plushie (1 per team member) & Pusheen Plushie (1 per team member)
Best Designed Hack
Wacom Tablet (1 per team member)
KPCB Fellows - KPCB Fellows Prize
Uber
$200 in Uber Credit per team member, max 4
Bloomberg - Best use of the Bloomberg API
Razer Chroma Mechanical Gaming Keyboard
Rough Draft Ventures - Best 'Rough Draft'
Invitation to pitch Rough Draft Ventures (for opportunity of up to $25K in funding)
HP - Most innovative use of HP IDOL OnDemand APIs
Each member of the winning team will receive a next-generation Oculus VR DK2!
Twilio - Twilio API Prize
Custom action figures (up to four) for each member of the team.
Thalmic Labs - Myo Armband Application Prize
Myo Developer Kits ($149 EA)
Dropbox - Best Use of Dropbox API
50 GB of Dropbox space and a Dropbox Snuggie per winner of the award
Quirky + GE - Best Smart Home App
Quirky Hubs + Quirky Nimbuses!
Quirky + GE - Best Use of Smart Home Product Data
Quirky Hubs + Quirky Nimbuses!
Quirky + GE - Most Innovative Use of Quirky + GE Products
Quirky Hubs + Quirky Nimbuses!
MIT Big Data Living Lab
Best use of campus Wifi Data
Synaptics - Best Synaptics Sponsored Hack
Samsung Galaxy Tab S or other TBD prize
Synaptics - Best Use of Synaptics Fingerprint ID Sensor
$1000 to split between team members and guaranteed internship interview offer for summer 2015
Synaptics - BestUse of Synaptics Hover / Proximity Sensor
$1000 to split between team members and guaranteed internship interview offer for summer 2015
Andreesen Horowitz - Best Use of Jawbone API
UP24
CapitalOne - Money Hack
each member can pick either a Parrot AR.Drone 2.0 or Oculus Rift Development Kit 2
Fitbit - Best Use of the Fitbit API
Fitbit Aria Wi-Fi Scale and choice of Fitbit One or Fitbit Flex tracker
MongoDB - Best Use of MongoDB
MongoDB swag pack + Amazon Gift Card
Hill Holliday
Hill Holliday Prize
Sailthru - Best use of Sailthru API
LED Pixel art - Awarded to the app that best represents the future of personalization!
Thomson Reuters - Best use of Thomson Reuters content
Most creative use of Thomson Reuters content
Namecheap - Best domain name
$250 in Namecheap credit - Awarded to the best domain name
DirecTV
Awarded to the most innovative use of the DirecTV API - A 40” Samsung 1080p Smart HDTV or NFLSUNDAYTICKET.TV
Google Challenge
Award: Your team and project will get Featured on the Official Google Blog
Eligibility: Uses both GDelt and BitQuery
Best Assembly Hack
Award: 2 bitcoins
Eligibility: Submitted on assembly.com . We'll award this prize to our favorite app that is added to Assembly.com, where you can continue to build it into a community-owned startup. Questions? austin@assembly.com"
Best Use of Ziggeo API
Award: 1 GoPro per team or $300 in Amazon Gift Certificates to be divided among team members
Eligibility: Uses Ziggeo API
Kensho - Hack Wall St.
iPad Mini for each team member. Awarded to the hack that best makes use of publicly available datasets (including at least one dataset that provides info on equities, commodities, futures and/or options pricing/fundamentals) to uncover an insight or otherwise visualize an aspect of the market in a compelling manner.
Devpost Achievements
Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:
How to enter
To create a HackMIT entry, you must register on this site by hitting the yellow "Register" button above and then confirming your registration on the subsequent page. After that, you'll be able to submit your entry.
Your entry must be completed and submitted by Sunday October 5th 9am EST
Judges
TBC
Judging Criteria
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Usefulness
Is the hack practical? Is it something people would actually use? Does it fulfill a real need people have? -
Originality
Is the hack more than just another generic social/mobile/local app? Does it do something entirely novel, or at least take a fresh approach to an old problem? -
Technical Difficulty
Is the hack technically interesting or difficult? Is it just some lipstick on an API, or were there real technical challenges to surmount? -
Polish / Design
Is the hack usable in its current state? Is the user experience smooth? Does everything appear to work? Is it well designed?
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