Helix Hacks is a hackathon designed to inspire and empower young coders to pursue and develop their programming skills. Over the course of 30 hours, teams of 2-4 participants will work to develop a software project that helps to solve a real-world problem.
Eligibility
Students who will be in grades 8-12 for the 2020-2021 school year.
Teams of up to 4 people. You can have a team with more than 4 people, but we will only be able to provide up to 4 prizes if your team wins.
Requirements
Submit your project; whether it may be an app, website, video game, etc.
In addition to your project files, please submit a pitch video that explains the problem that you are addressing, how your project solves the problem, the obstacles you faced, your next steps, and any other additional details. Please see our presentation guide for more details and tips.
Prizes
$2,912 in prizes
NVIDIA Developer Kits
Airpods
FitBit
Polaroid Kit
VR Headset
AKG N20
RocketBook
Portable Bluetooth Speaker
Wolfram Award
(5)
Bugsee Credits
LED Keyboard and Mouse
Echo (3rd Gen) - Smart speaker with Alexa
AKG N30 (Canal Type Earphone high Resolution 2 Way)
Devpost Achievements
Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:
Judges
Jagadish Agrawal
Engineering Manager at Google Ads
Katerina Daveynis
Product Manager at Google Ads
Vijay Maram
Senior Software Engineer at HPE
Ankush Agarwal
Software Engineer at Facebook
Vivek Gupta
Senior Engineering Mgr, Enterprise systems at Apple
Ilia Zobenko
CTO at Odus.ai
Anand Agarwal
Anatolii Kabanov
AVP Software Engineer, Barclays
Amit Jain
CEO and Co-Founder of CorpGini
Jugnu Gupta
Senior Director, Product Management at ComCast
Manish Rastogi
Senior Manager at Renesas
Amit Rastogi
Product Manager at Averta Corp.
Judging Criteria
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Creativity/Originality
A creative and original project approaches a problem in an interesting and unique way, as opposed to recreating something that already exists. -
Technical Complexity
Technical complexity is about how much skill it would take to code the project. It also encompasses how well-written and complex the code is. -
User Friendly
A user-friendly project is easy to use and understand without detailed instructions/explanations. -
Presentation
We will also be judging how compelling the presentation/pitch video is and how easy it was to understand your project. -
Impact
Impact covers how practical and effective your solution is to help solve the problem. It judges how much of a difference this solution will have to potential users.
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