Best Moonshot Hack - Bitcamp

The most creative, innovative, and imaginative hack that “shoots for the moon.”

The winning team will receive 1 Nintendo Switch, 1 PS4, 1 XBOX One, and 1 SNES (to be split amongst the team members).

Most Entertaining Hack - Bitcamp

Make us go teehee!

Each member of the winning team will receive a Google Home Mini.

Best First-Time Hack - Bitcamp

The Best Hack by a First Time Hacker that shows the most individual growth. Were you able to learn a new skill at Bitcamp and apply it to your project? You must have at least one first time hacker in your team to be eligible for this prize.

Each member of the winning team will receive a Google Home Mini!

[HARDWARE VILLAGE] Best Hardware Hack - Bitcamp

The most creative, technical, and innovative use of circuitry, electronics, or microcontrollers in a hack.

Each member of the winning team will receive a Particle Photon Kit.

[DESIGN DEN] Best Bitfolio - Bitcamp

The Best Bitfolio will be the best overall submitted portfolio of UX/UI designs of hacks from the weekend. Factors considered will be innovation, aesthetics, service to the project/challenge, and the process.

The best designer will win a Bose QC 25!

[Compass Challenge] Best Hack for Fostering Continuous Education - Exerceo

How do we inspire individuals to continuously learn throughout their lifetime?
We challenge you to design a product that will get and keep individuals excited about learning, no matter their stage in life. Think about who might use your product -- is it burnt-out college students? mid-career professionals?

Each member of the winning team will receive a $100 Amazon gift card.

[Compass Challenge] Best Hack for Mental Health - Sigma Phi Delta

Mental health is an issue that affects about 1 in 5 adults nationwide. That number increases to 1 in 4 when you narrow the demographics to college-aged adults. Community outreach and wellbeing are core tenants of SPD. We challenge hackers to effectively use software or hardware in their hacks to make a meaningful contribution to mental health quality of care, access, or support.

Each member of the winning team will receive a $100 Amazon gift card.

[Compass Challenge] Best Hack for Energy Sustainability - GOEFER

Think about all of the household items that you keep plugged day after day in your home. While keeping electronics plugged in all day may be convenient, we often forget the impact this has on the environment and our bank accounts. Being more aware of our energy consumption and reducing our energy use can help save money on our energy bills, sustain the natural resources we already have, and allow us to provide more hackathons for you to attend.

We will be awarding the most innovative and creative hack that pertains to saving energy through our household electronics or bringing more awareness to the energy waste they produce -- whether it be delivering information about electronics energy usage, finding ways to reduce their energy, or anything else you can think of!

Each member of the winning team will receive a $100 Amazon gift card.

[Compass Challenge] Best Hack for X* - Bitcamp

*X denotes a relevant social problem that does not fall into any other Compass Challenge challenge

We will be awarding the most creative and impactful hack that defines a social issue and presents a solution to a real-world problem that we face today.

Each member of the winning team will receive a $100 Amazon gift card.

Best App or Site for Investment Advisor Rep Report - FINRA (2)

In the spirit of exploration, we challenge you to create an app or website that encourages users to explore our Investment Advisor Data set from the Investment Adviser Representatives Report. It's totally up to you on what platform, hardware, or software you'd like to use - our only requirement is that our data set is a part of the solution. All participants are automatically entered into a drawing for the Nintendo classic gaming system! The winning team will receive a cash equivalent prize of $3,000!!!

Best Hack with Esri APIs and SDKs - Esri (3)

Develop something cool, something neat, and something inspiring that uses our ArcGIS platform and APIs. Our judging criteria will include problem addressed, technical difficulty, design, and presentation.

The first place team will receive $600 to be split amongst the team members. The second and third place teams will each receive $200 to be split amongst the team members.

Best Financial Hack - Capital One

Projects will be judged on Creativity, Completeness, Complexity.

Each member of the winning team will receive a $350 Amazon Gift Card.

Best Hack for Education - Bloomberg LP

Build a hack that supports bold solutions to improve education (ie. improving college access and success).

Each member of the winning team will receive an Ultimate Ears BOOM 2 LE Limited Edition Wireless Speaker (Phantom).

Best Hack to Visualize Mortgage Loan Performance - RiskSpan (2)

RiskSpan will provide data for performance of mortgage loans (https://uat.riskspan.com/EdgeAPIDoc/#introduction). We are looking for the most innovative way to analyze the data.

Each member of the winning team will receive a $250 Amazon gift card.

Best Data Visualization Hack to Solve a Real-World Challenge - OPIS By IHS Markit (2)

Fun, Creative, Cool, and/or Innovative. Try to solve a problem that faces society today, and think of efficient/innovative solutions to solve it.

The winning team will receive a $500 Visa Gift Card to be split amongst the team members (depending on team size, this prize may be split amongst multiple winners).

Most Realistic Workplace Hack - TCS

Build something that can be implemented in a real work situation!

The winning team will receive a $500 Visa Gift Card to be split amongst the team members.

Best Hack to Democratize Financial Services - PayPal Credit

Create an application that empowers the progress and potential of people all around the world to participate in financial services. Judging criteria: customer focus & understanding, completeness, impact, and creativity.

Each member of the winning team will receive a Google Home (up to four members).

Best Use of Google Cloud Platform Services or APIs - Google Cloud Platform

Build, innovate, and scale with Google Cloud Platform (GCP), a powerful suite of cloud computing services that runs on the same infrastructure that Google uses internally for its end-user products. The goal is simple. Build an awesome project or hack using any GCP cloud service or API!

Each member of the winning team will receive a Google Home Hub, a GCP t-shirt, and $100 in GCP credits.

Bonus: We are offering a raffle for any Bitcamp participants with two winners receiving a Google prize package, including a Google Home Mini, a GCP t-shirt, lanyard, pins, and more! Please complete this form and select "Check in to event" to be entered to win: https://ter.ps/gcpraffle

Best Use of Machine Learning - Metron (3)

Solve an interesting problem with a novel and compelling use of machine learning. Build something fun and creative while also being able to justify your techniques and choices.

Each member of the winning team will receive a $50 gift card. Each member of the runner up team will receive a $25 gift card. Both winning and runner up team members will also receive an interview for an internship position.

Best Digital Forensic Hack - Cipher Tech Solutions

Cipher Tech is giving away four Raspberry Pi 3 B+ Kits to members of the team who design the best application that pertains in some way to digital forensics. Digital forensics topics include but are not limited to: Data carving\reconstruction\recovery tools, finding specific objects (other than faces) in a large collection of digital images, steganography detection or exploitation, registry or memory artifact analysis, encryption detection, anything reverse engineering related, or anything else that could aid investigators who are looking at computers recovered from crime scenes.

Each member of the winning team will receive a CanaKit Raspberry Pi 3 B+ (B Plus) Complete Starter Kit (16 GB Edition).

Best React Hack - Lockheed Martin (2)

At Lockheed Martin, we understand that functionality and usability are linked. It’s
not good enough to get something working in the terminal; you need to display
your information in a user interface that is easy to use and visually appealing. For
our challenge, we are asking developers to build whatever they want but use the
React.js library for their user interface. This web technology is used in a variety of
LM programs and we need people with this expertise.

Judging criteria:
- Does the interface provide valuable functionality?
- Does the interface contain multiple integrated components? (Maybe
use Golden Layout API for this)
- Does the interface look visually appealing?
- Does the interface scale to fit multiple displays? (Multiple laptops or
smartphone screens)

Each member of the winning team will receive a swag bag with Echo dots & Lockheed Martin swag.

Best Use of Snap Kit - MLH

Use Snap Kit's web or mobile SDK in your hack.

Each winning team member will receive a pair of Spectacles by Snapchat or another awesome prize.

Best Domain Registered with Domain.com - MLH

Register a domain using Domain.com during the weekend. Each team may submit one entry per person on the team.

Each winning team member will receive a Raspberry Pi & PiHut Essential Kit.

Best IoT Hack using a Qualcomm Device - MLH

Use a Qualcomm device, like the Dragonboard 410C, in your IoT project.

Each winning team member will receive their own DragonBoard 410C.

Best use of Blockstack - MLH

Create an app using the Blockstack Platform. Each winning team member will receive a $100 Amazon Gift Card, max 4 per team. The opportunity with Blockstack doesn't end with the event. Any app built with Blockstack during a hackathon that successfully registers for the App Mining program within two weeks of the event will receive an additional $500 reward.