Welcome to MakeUC 2020. MakeUC is the University of Cincinnati's Fall hackathon hosted by IEEE@UC. We work year-round to offer you this great 24-hour event and allow you to connect with other students and network with industry partners! This year, we will be going virtual and we have 1150+ registrants joining us from 400+ universities across 57+ countries! We're excited to have you hack with us this Fall at the largest hackathon in the Cincinnati metropolitan area!
Eligibility
Participants: All students are welcome!
Countries: Participants from all countries are welcome to join. However, swag and prize exceptions will apply per shipping restrictions (can be COVID or geographical restrictions). Some prizes are only eligible for U.S. addresses and others can be slightly altered to cover the cost of international shipping (if applicable). This will be discussed on a case-by-case basis with the winners.
Requirements
To qualify for submission you must be in our database (registered on makeuc.io/register). No submission will be considered from students that are not in our database.
1. Video recording highlighting your approach, process, and code (2-3 minutes long).
2. Public repository link to access all the code (and design files), i.e. GitHub link.
3. A brief write-up (on Devpost) must be included with the project to discuss learning, technologies used, specific contributions by each team member (if applicable), etc.
Prizes
$48,950 in prizes
First Place Overall
40" Roku TV | T7 SSD 1TB | Sonos One | 1050 Ti Graphics Card | Sony Headphones
In addition to $250 in DigitalOcean Credits for each team member.
Second Place Overall
Scepter 24" Monitor | Apple Airpods | 32" Smart TV | JBL Bluetooth Speakers | DJI Gimbal | FPGA Trainer Board
Third Place Overall
JBL Quatum 400 | ELEGOO Mega Starter Kit | The Arduino Starter Kit | Mechanical Keyboard | Logitech webcam (or comparable)
Best Education Hack
ELEGOO Mega Starter Kit | Mechanical Keyboard | Digital Graphics Drawing Tablet | 16GB RAM | Amazon Echo Dot | Fire HD 8 Tablet
Best Space Hack
ELEGOO Mega Starter Kit | Mechanical Keyboard | Digital Graphics Drawing Tablet | 16GB RAM | Amazon Echo Dot | Fire HD 8 Tablet
Best Health Hack
ELEGOO Mega Starter Kit | Mechanical Keyboard | Digital Graphics Drawing Tablet | 16GB RAM | Amazon Echo Dot | Fire HD 8 Tablet
Best Social Responsibility Hack
ELEGOO Mega Starter Kit | Mechanical Keyboard | Digital Graphics Drawing Tablet | 16GB RAM | Amazon Echo Dot | Fire HD 8 Tablet
Best Hardware Hack
JBL Quatum 400 | ELEGOO Mega Starter Kit | The Arduino Starter Kit | Mechanical Keyboard | Logitech webcam (or comparable)
Best UI/UX Hack
JBL Quatum 400 | ELEGOO Mega Starter Kit | The Arduino Starter Kit | Mechanical Keyboard | Logitech webcam (or comparable)
[Wolfram] Wolfram Award
(25)
A year of Wolfram|One Personal Edition plus a one-year subscription to Wolfram|Alpha Pro for each member on the top 25 teams overall.
[Google Cloud] COVID-19 Hackathon Fund
(4)
Google Cloud is offering up to $5,000 in cloud credits and guidance from Google developers to select projects focused on building solutions for challenges related to COVID-19.
[Google Cloud] Best Use of Google Cloud Platform (First Place)
Patagonia Backpack, Acrylic Trophy, Water Bottle for each member (US mailing addresses only).
[Northrop Grumman] Capture The Flag
Only ONE individual can win this challenge. The winner will receive $100 Amazon Gift Card (US mailing addresses only).
[MLH] Best Use of Google Cloud Platform (Second Place)
Google Home Mini
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 will receive a Google Home Mini.
[MLH] Best Domain Registered with Domain.com
Domain.com Backpacks
Domain.com provides all the domain services you need from registration to hosting to SSL certificates and beyond. Each hacker will receive a FREE domain name and year of domain privacy from Domain.com for their project this weekend!
[MLH] Best Use of DataStax Astra
YubiKey 5 Security Keys
Leverage DataStax Asta's powerful cloud database service in your project this weekend for a chance to win YubiKey Security Keys. Getting started in minutes with 10 GB free, no credit card needed.
[MLH] Best Hardware Hack Sponsored by Digi-Key
(2)
Using your preferred hardware or hardware emulator, build a hack for your chance to win a Grove Beginner Kit, with Arduino Uno R3 included.
1 prize for EACH winning team member with 2 winning teams.
[echoAR] Best Use of echoAR
$50 Amazon Gift Card for each team. 1-month free business tier access to the echoAR platform for each team member. A feature in the echoAR newsletter.
[Twilio] Best Use of Twilio API
Must use Twilio API to qualify for a prize.
Devpost Achievements
Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:
Judges
John Franco
Theory and Algorithms Professor at University of Cincinnati
Tao Li
Microsystems Professor at University of Cincinnati
Gowtham Atluri
Machine Learning and Data Science Professor at University of Cincinnati
David Washburn
Cyber Software Engineering Manager at Northrop Grumman
Alon Grinshpoon
CEO of echoAR
Neal Goyal
Coach at Major League Hacking
Ryan Matsumoto
Developer Advocate at Google
Mihir Patel
Incoming Software Engineer at Microsoft
Brian Lozano
Program Coordinator at Google
Aaron Yeats
Operations Manager at Google
Judging Criteria
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Innovative Approach
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Learning Outcomes
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Purpose and Value
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Presentation Quality
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