Applications to NewHacks are now closed and acceptances have been sent out. 

Join us at NewHacks to transform your ideas into reality! In this 24-hour event, you and your team will make a project from scratch using software and present your project to a panel of industry judges to compete for prizes. This year, the themes for NewHacks are health, productivity, and safety/privacy! For more information about NewHacks, check out our website at newhacks.ca!

To help facilitate your learning experience, we will host online workshops throughout the event featuring speakers from some of the top companies in the industry. We can't wait to see your creations!

Requirements

All work on a project should be done at the hackathon and solely for NewHacks. We will verify it by your git repository.

The following ideas pertain to the requirements of the teams

  1. Teams can use an idea (but can not use materials-code from previous hackathons) they had before the event. Teams can work on an idea that they have worked on before (as long as they do not re-use code).
  2. Teams can use libraries, frameworks, or open-source code in their projects. Working on a project before the event and open-sourcing it for the sole purpose of using the code during the event is against the spirit of the rules and is not allowed.

Devpost Requirements:

In order to submit your project, you must submit the following items through Devpost:

  1. Project Name
  2. Team Member Names
  3. A short description of your design 

4. A video submission following these requirements.

It is always good to link it to your Devpost project in case other groups want to check it out. Please ensure that you select all of the prize categories that you wish to be considered for!

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Prizes

$CAD3,520 in prizes

1st Place Overall

First pick in our prize pool for each team member, including Nintendo Switch, Apple Airpods, Bluetooth headphones, smart home products, and more!

2nd Place Overall

First pick in our prize pool for each team member, including Nintendo Switch, Apple Airpods, Bluetooth headphones, smart home products, and more!

3rd Place Overall

First pick in our prize pool for each team member, including Nintendo Switch, Apple Airpods, Bluetooth headphones, smart home products, and more!

Best Health Hack

Design a project that helps with health and win UMIDIGI Smart Watch, Fitness Tracker with Heart Rate Monitor for each of your teammates.

Best Productivity Hack

Create a hack that improves productivity, and win ENACFIRE G20 Wireless Earbuds for each member!

Best Safety/Privacy Hack

Create the best solution for safety and privacy and win a Seagate Portable 2TB External Hard Drive Portable HDD for each member on your team.

Best "Smart Everything" Hack

Synopsys technology is at the heart of innovations that are changing the way people work and play. Self-driving cars, machines that learn, and lightning-fast communication across billions of devices in the datasphere are ushering in the era of Smart Everything. Compete in this category for a chance for each team member to win PowerBuds Wireless Bluetooth Earbuds AND an ARI Ultra-Portable Bluetooth Speaker.

Best Use of Auth0

Auth0 wants your applications to be secure! Use any of the Auth0 APIs for a chance to win some exclusive swag, including a Miir 12oz tumbler, Rubiks Cube, and sticker! Why spend hours building features like social sign-in, Multi-Factor Authentication, and passwordless log-in when you can enable them through Auth0 straight out of the box? Save some time on your hack and set yourself up for a big win. It doesn’t take much to get started. Auth0 is free to try with up to 7,000 free active users and unlimited log-ins. Make your new account today!

Most Creative Use of Twilio

Twilio allows you to incorporate mobile messaging, phone calls and a ton of other awesome communication features right into your hackathon project using web service APIs. Are you building an e-commerce website and want to send text notifications or email confirmations once an order is completed? Or maybe your application needs to verify users based on their mobile numbers? Twilio makes all this possible and more. Build a hack that simplifies your life using any one of Twilio’s APIs for a chance to win a Twilio Swag Box and GameGo Console for you and each of your teammates!

Best Domain Name from Domain.com

Register a .tech domain name using Domain.com during the weekend. Each team may submit one entry per person on the team. Each winning team member will receive a PowerSquare Qi wireless phone charger.

Best Use of Google Cloud

Build your hackathon project with a suite of secure storage, powerful compute, and integrated data analytics products provided by Google Cloud. See full list of products here: g.co/cloud. Each winning team member located in the US will receive a Google Cloud Swag Bag complete with a beanie, pillow, journal, socks and lanyards. International winners will receive a Google branded backpack.

Devpost Achievements

Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:

Judges

IEEE

IEEE
IEEE University of Toronto Branch

Judging Criteria

  • Idea Originality
    Idea is original and described with great detail. Idea is useful in that it solves a problem, provides a service, or enables a significant function. This is also used to evaluate how well thought through the original idea is.
  • Technical Complexity
    Multiple peripherals are used to provide the necessary functionality required. Here is where we will evaluate how challenging it generally was to put your entire project together and how much you learned along the way.
  • Technical Complexity
    Multiple peripherals are used to provide the necessary functionality required. Here is where we will evaluate how challenging it generally was to put your entire project together and how much you learned along the way.
  • Working Demo
    Demonstration works flawlessly, is repeatable, and impressive. Demonstration is clear and presents the underlying design principles.
  • Presentation
    Presentation is convincing and summarizes learnings, troubles, and deep understanding of technology used. Presentation is well rehearsed, demonstrates contributions by individual members, and reflect how the team was able to work effectively together.

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