The best all-round hack, this prize considers design, complexity, and impact to determine the best hackathon prize! Best Overall winning teams get the following:
1st - IPAD / Quest 3s / 4K TV
2nd - Switch Lite
3rd - General Tech priced at $125

The best gaming hack prize will go to the team that makes a fun game that fits best with our Cryptids theme!
1st - Gaming Gear $200
2nd - Gaming Gear $100
3rd - Gaming Gear $50

The best hardware hack prize will go to the team that incorporate the best hardware into their project this weekend!
1st - Gift Card $100
2nd - Gift Card $50

New to hackathons? We’ve got the track for you! Compete against other first-timers to win a grand prize of your own. (Majority of your team should be first time hackers!)
1st - General Tech $200
2nd - General Tech $100

The Hackers Choice award will go to the team whose project resonates most with the audience. For this category, you are the judges!

1st: 3d Printer $250

Create a mobile application that allows WIC recipients to visually identify items that are covered under the program, scan items in store, and receive feedback visually and audibly of whether the scanned item is covered, and why or why not, or at least offering an alternative (identify if a smaller or larger size of an item is covered instead of the item selected).

Grand Prize: $800

Design and fabrication of multifunctional furniture pieces for use in the GCCI office space. In order for two designs to be selected, each must combine distinct functionalities (see below). We encourage teams interested in this opportunity to coordinate with each other to distinguish their designs.

Grand Prize: $500

Create a software solution that can take a baseline and multiple sample CSV files as input, superimpose the baseline CSV with x number of sample CSVs onto x total graphs, and batch save the generated graphs to a desired location on the file path. More information and instructions about this are offered on the back of this page.

Grand Prize: $1000, Possible Runner-Up: $500

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Understand language like a human and build a chatbot that gives personalized advice

Analyze info like a supercomputer and create an app that summarizes complex research papers

Generate creative content like code, scripts, music, and more

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