About the challenge

   Hello All! This is a beginner friendly, research based hackathon where students will recieve support to pursue a short, small-scale project over the course of a weekend. Afterwards, students will submit their code, video, and a short writeup about their project and experience.

 Get started

   All communications will be hosted through Devpost, email, and Discord. For now, simply brainstorm ideas for the competition. All work will occur during the Feb 24-26 weekend.

Requirements

What to Build

1. Code with comments

2. Short write-up on the project in IMRaD format (Introduction, Materials/Methods, Results, and Discussion)

3. A short video explaining the project

What to Submit

1. Links to GitHub or Colab notebook code

2. Document of scientific write-up

3. Link to Youtube video of the project explanation

Hackathon Sponsors

Prizes

4 non-cash prizes
1st Place
1 winner

First prize overall on the basis of judging criteria.

2nd Place
1 winner

Second prize overall on the basis of judging criteria.

3rd Place
1 winner

Third prize overall on the basis of judging criteria.

Popular Winner
1 winner

Popular winner is the project that receives the most positive votes from the competitors during the voting period.

Devpost Achievements

Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:

Judges

Sucheer Maddury

Sucheer Maddury
Pi & World - President

Ameya Kulkarni

Ameya Kulkarni
Pi & World

Aniket Mittal

Aniket Mittal
Pi & World

Khedaar Kashyap

Khedaar Kashyap
Pi & World

Sachin Venkat

Sachin Venkat
Pi & World

Evgeniy Kravtsov - MS

Evgeniy Kravtsov - MS
SberDevices - Frontend Developer

Dmitrii Matveichev - PhD

Dmitrii Matveichev - PhD
KaiKuTeK - ML Engineer

Konstantin Telnoi - BS

Konstantin Telnoi - BS
Simple App - Software Engineer

Judging Criteria

  • Creativity
    1-10
  • Potential for Social Impact
    1-10
  • Difficulty
    1-10
  • Presentation Quality
    1-10

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