On the weekend of October 5, over 1,000 hackers from all over the world will gather at MIT for a hackathon like no other. 1000+ people, $10k+ prizes, 30 hours. October 5-6, 2013 at MIT. Open to all students, all schools. Will you be there?
Eligibility
Registered attendees of HackMIT
All undergraduate students from any university in any country are welcome. High school students must be 18 or older to attend. This event is closed to graduate students. (Shouldn't you be working on your thesis anyway?)
You must register to participate. Don't forget to bring your valid student ID!
Requirements
Submissions must contain the following:
- Screen shots of you project.
- An accurate description of what it does.
- All team members must be added on the submission form.
Prizes
$15,000 in prizes
Grand Prize
2nd Place
3rd Place
Venmo - Makes Life So Easy
$500 on Venmo
Intuit - API Innovation Award
$1k cash + additional items; TBD for 2nd and 3rd place finishers
Akamai - Best Use of Algorithms
SendGrid - Best use of SendGrid API Award
Leap Motions
Amicus - What Does The Fox Say? Award
A Cow, A Water Buffalo, and a Llama for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place, to be donated to a family in the third world on the winner's behalf, through Heifer International
Weather Underground - Best use of Weather Underground API Award
$1,000 American Express Gift Card
MongoDB - Best Use of MongoDB
MongoDB swag and additional prize money
KPCB - KPCB Fellows Award
Firebase - Best use of Firebase
iPad minis
Bloomberg - Best Use of the Bloomberg API
Leap Montion
Thiel Fellowship - “Under 20” Hack Award
Priority review of the 2014 fellowship application, travel and lodging to an upcoming Under 20 Summit, and a meet and greet with reps from the leadership council
MoPub - Mobile Data Award
+ iPad Minis
Constant Contact - Best use of Constant Contact API
Constant Contact swag kits (jacket, hat, etc), a featured story on our tech blog, and your app featured in our marketplace (if sass)
Pinterest - Pin It award
iPad Minis
AlchemyAPI - Best Use of AlchemyAPI Award
Twilio - Twilio API Award
Two Arduino Inventor Kits
Google, Inc.
4 Nexus 7 tablets
Sailthru - Smart Data Challenge
Pixel
Fitbit - Fitbit Flex
Fitbit Flex
Synaptics, Inc. - Most Innovative project with ForcePad - 1st Prize
Samsung Galaxy S4 for each team member
Synaptics, Inc. - Most Innovative project with Hover - 1st Prize
Samsung Galaxy S4 for each team member
Synaptics, Inc. - Most Innovative project with ForcePad - 2nd Prize
$500 for team
Synaptics, Inc. - Most Innovative project with Hover - 2nd Prize
$500 for the team
Square Inc. - Making Commerce Easy and Rounding the Corners
Backpacks
Twitter - Best user of Twitter
General Catalyst - Most likely to be the “Next Big Thing”
An invitation to come and pitch to the Rough Draft Ventures team (chance of up to $25k investment) and/or dinner with our team and local VCs
Jawbone - For the best health hack
BIG JAMBOXs or Jawbone UPs for the entire team.
Kenshō - Best Financial Data Hack
One iPad mini (retail value: $400), and four memory sticks pre-loaded with purchased, premium, high resolution historical pricing data for every U.S. stock, major commodity, and currency pair, going back to 1990 (retail value: $10,000).
Facebook
$500 for the team
Bain Capital: Best Use of Data Visualization
Leap Motions for the team
Bain Capital: Best Use of Machine Learning
Leap Motions for the team
Devpost Achievements
Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:
How to enter
To create a HackMIT entry, you must register on this site by hitting the yellow "Register" button above and then confirming your registration on the subsequent page. After that, you'll be able to submit your entry.
Your entry must be completed and submitted by Sunday October 6th 8am EST
Judges

TBC
Judging Criteria
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Usefulness
Is the hack practical? Is it something people would actually use? Does it fulfill a real need people have? -
Originality
Is the hack more than just another generic social/mobile/local app? Does it do something entirely novel, or at least take a fresh approach to an old problem? -
Technical Difficulty
Is the hack technically interesting or difficult? Is it just some lipstick on an API, or were there real technical challenges to surmount? -
Polish / Design
Is the hack usable in its current state? Is the user experience smooth? Does everything appear to work? Is it well designed?
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