On the weekend of February 20th-22nd, we're bringing together 500 of the most talented students from across the country for 36 hours of creating.

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Prizes

$68,590 in prizes
Grand Prize
1 winner

Zero G Experience + Admission to HackNTU for the entire winning team.

2nd Prize
1 winner

Parrot AR Drone + Meta Glass + Emotiv EEG headset

3rd Prize
1 winner

Parrot AR Drones

Crowd-Favorite Prize
1 winner

Plane Trip to Hawaii

Best App that Would Benefit from a Gigabit network
1 winner

Presented by Orange. Winning team receives a trip to Orange HQ in Paris to demo for Orange Fiber. Terms and Conditions apply (email will.barkis@orange.com for details)

Best Use of SendGrid
1 winner

Presented by SendGrid. Winners will receive Mini Parrot Drones

Best Use of Facebook APIs/Parse
2 winners

Presented by Facebook. Winners will receive Facebook Swag.

Best Use of IBM Bluemix or Watson
1 winner

Presented by IBM. Winners will receive Arduino Boards.

Best Use of Branch Metric API
1 winner

Presented by Branch metrics. Winners will receive a parrot Bebop Drone/Quadcopter, a mini Jambox, and a hoodie.

Best Use of Cyanogen Platform
1 winner

Presented by Cyanogen. Winners will receive a Nexus 6.

Best Microsoft Hack
1 winner

Presented by Microsoft. Winners will receive a Surface Pro 3.

Best Use of Moxtra's API/SDK
1 winner

Presented by Moxtra. Winning team will receive $1000.

Best Use of Bloomberg API
1 winner

Presented by Bloomberg. Winners will receive a parrot drone.

Best Finance App
1 winner

Presented by Affirm. Winners will receive $200 and an Affirm Backpack.

Best Use of SmartThings
2 winners

Presented by SmartThings. Winning team will receive 3 SmartThings Starter Kits

Best iOS Prize
2 winners

Presented by Apple. Winners will receive iPad minis.

Best Hack built with iDrone: 1st Prize
1 winner

Presented by iDrone. Winning team will receive 1 iDrone

Best Bioinformatics Hack
1 winner

Presented by Illuminia. Winners will receive targeted gene sequencing.

Best Use of Emotiv
1 winner

Presented by Emotiv. Winners will receive Emotiv EPOC EEG headset with SDK

Best IoT Smart City Hack
1 winner

Presented by Atomiton. Winning Team will receive an Atomiton Neuron Computer

Best Pebble Hack
2 winners

Presented by Pebble. Winners will receive Pebble Steel watches

Best Use of MongoDB
1 winner

Presented by MongoDB. Winners will receive Amazon Gift Cards and MongoDB Swag

Best Use of Gun
1 winner

Presented by Gun. Winners will receive 2 adult-size electric scooters.

Best Use of D21
1 winner

Presented by D21. Winners will receive an all-expense Czech party at the city of their choice.

Best Use of Intel Hardware
1 winner

Presented by Intel. Winners will receive Beats headphones

Best Use of Intel Software
1 winner

Presented by Intel. Winners will receive MIP robots

Best Use of Intel Mashery API
1 winner

Presented by Intel. Winner will receive 4 jumping sumo parrot drones

Best CS + English Hack
1 winner

Presented by Stanford CS+X. Winning team will receive autographed copies of The Orphan Master's Son by Pulitzer Prizewinner Adam Johnson.

Best CS + History Hack
1 winner

Presented by Stanford CS+X. Winning team will receive $500.

Best Social Good Hack
2 winners

Winners receive $200 for DonorsChoose.

Best Use of Meta
4 winners

Presented by Meta. 4 winning teams will receive Meta 1 Dev Kits + 6 months of Unity Pro Licensing.

Best Use of Vertical Response
1 winner

Presented by Vertical Response. Winners will receive $100 Amazon Gift Cards + Pebble Steel Watches.

Best Local Focus
1 winner

Presented by Yelp. Winners will receive Leap Motions

Best Use of DIRECTV
1 winner

Presented by DIRECTV for the most innovative use of DIRECTV APIs. Winning team will receive 1 Samsung 50'' 4K UHD TV.

Best Hack as a Product or Business
1 winner

Presented by Thiel Capital. Winning team will receive $1000 grant to keep working on the hack

Dropbox Engineering Prize
3 winners

1st Place Winning Team receives 100GB of space each. 2nd Place Winning Team receives Circuit Scribe Kits. 3rd Place Winning Team receives a Splendor Board Game

Best Use of Capital One API
1 winner

Presented by Capital One.

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Judges

Jeff Dean

Jeff Dean
Google Senior Fellow

Judging Criteria

  • Technical Difficulty
  • Polish
  • Creativity

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