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Disruption, Synergy, & Vitality Tracks

DubHacks Track Winners 🎉

Each winning team member may choose one of the following prizes or a $150 donation to a charity of choice:

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AirPods Pro 2nd Gen

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S-Racer Gaming Chair

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32’ TV

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Quest 2 Elite VR Headset

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JBL Flip 4 Bluetooth Speaker

Note: Not all items may be able to be shipped outside the USA.

Sponsored Tracks

‼️ You may only enter up to two Sponsored Tracks in addition to your Title Track. ‼️

Best Idea: AI in Healthcare

Every year, the Buerk Center for Entrepreneurship’s Hollomon Health Innovation Challenge invites students to submit innovative ideas that will impact health and wellness for people around the globe. With the increasing availability of AI tools, many are discussing how these new technologies can be effectively and ethically implemented within the industry.

This prize will be awarded to the team with the most innovative application of an AI technology to improve healthcare access and delivery, physician workflows, and/or patient outcomes.

🥇 First Prize: $50 gift card for each team member. Up to $500 in Prototype Funding if the winning team chooses to enter their idea in the 2024 Hollomon Health Innovation Challenge.

Unlock the Power of Internet Computer

ICP.Hub North America’s commitment to progress extends across various fronts, including developer education, project incubation, and fostering meaningful collaborations with key players in the blockchain industry.

Join their Blockchain Internet Computer development track using TypeScript and Python.

This track is in tandem with its mandatory Hackathon workshop hosted by ICP.Hub North America in collaboration with Jordan Last, the CEO and Founder of Demergent Labs.

🥇 First Prize: $2,000

🥈 Second Prize: $1,000

🥉 Third Prize: $500

Wolfram Alpha Computational Integration

Projects implementing notable algorithms, mathematical theory, or aspects of theoretical computer science are eligible to join the Wolfram Alpha Computational Integration Track alongside any other tracks. Projects will be judged solely on the theory they use, and the winning teams will have ever member receive their own copy of the prize. Some examples of eligible projects are those that implement famous algorithms, use cryptographic theory, use machine learning algorithms, or use probabilistic computation.

🏅 Top 4 Teams Prize: A year of Wolfram | One Personal Edition plus a one-year subscription to Wolfram | Alpha Pro. The value of each individual award is $375.00.

Best Domain Name from GoDaddy Registry

GoDaddy Registry is giving you everything you need to be the best hacker no matter where you are. Register your domain name with GoDaddy Registry for a chance to win a Hack from Home Kit! Each Kit contains wireless earbuds, blue light glasses, selfie ring light and a pouch for easy transport.

🥇 First Prize: Hack from Home Kit

Best Developer Tool

At Warp, they’re reimagining the command-line terminal. Warp is a modern, rust-based terminal with AI built in so you and your team can build great software, faster.

They’d love to see what hackers can build to empower developers. Using any tools, build a hack that focuses on improving the developer experience in some meaningful was— this could be tackling any part of the development lifecycle (creating, modifying or testing software).

🥇 First Prize: 4 Xbox Series S

Best Vitality: Cybersecurity w/ NordVPN, NordPass, & Incogni

In addition to selecting a title-track prize, NordVPN, NordPass, and Icogni are teaming up to reward the top winner of the Vitality Track with free access to top products through their bundle. These are powerful cybersecurity tools that empower you and help safeguard your future projects.

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NordVPN is a trusted VPN (virtual private network) that offers next-generation encryption. Its advanced privacy features allow users to safely browse the internet from nearly anywhere in the world and easily unlock content geo-blocking.

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NordPass is an innovative password management solution designed for a simpler and safer online experience on any device. It’s a user-friendly password manager that helps to store, organize and secure all your passwords in one place.

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**Incogni **is a game-changer in the cybersecurity market with its innovative approach to tackling the widespread issue of data privacy and protection. It helps users exercise their right to delete their personal data from the internet.

🥇 Prize: NordVPN, NordPass, Incogni Bundle ($240) per member

Most Creative Use of GitHub

GitHub is one of the best ways to collaborate, push code, get feedback, and show the world what you’ve built during a hackathon. To take it a step further, GitHub is now offering you access to industry tools, events & learning resources through something called GitHub Global Campus. Win this weekend’s Most Creative Use of GitHub prize category, first by signing up for GitHub Global Campus and second by using a GitHub repository to host your hackathon project’s code! Make sure your use of GitHub stands out with a detailed ReadMe page, meaningful pull requests and collaboration history, and even a GitHub pages deployment!

🥇 First Prize: GitHub Swag

Most Creative Use of Redis Cloud

**Redis Cloud** is the easiest way to build and scale real-time applications - Period! It includes Redis Stack, adding indexing, querying, full-text search, JSON, time-series, and probabilistic data structures to the already-rich set of features of Redis.

Redis Stack works with all of your favorite programming languages and can be added to any existing application. It’s the easiest way to build real-time applications that scale and perform.

Show how you’ve used Redis Cloud in a way that showcases your unique and specific data structure needs and each member of your team could win a personal, portable Redis Stack server IOT hardware unit to keep developing on the go. Find out why Stack Overflow Developers have voted Redis their “most loved and admired” noSQL database for years-running by rolling Redis into your MLH Hackathon project.

Sign up for your free Redis Cloud account, and head over to **the MLH jump off page** on **Redis University** for more info and docs links. Enter coupon code MLHFall2023 to claim your Redis Cloud credits and get started for free!

🥇 First Prize: Libre Mini Computer with Redis Stack Server Pre-Installed

Best Use of Soroban

Soroban is an open-source Rust-based developer-friendly smart contracts platform built for scalability. It is interoperable with the layer-1 Stellar blockchain and benefits from the network’s existing global reach and access. With Soroban, developers have the freedom to create applications as borderless as the internet.

Learning how to build Decentralized Applications (DAPPs) using Soroban is easy and fun. Simply follow along with the **DAPPs on Soroban challenge** by forking either of the Crowdfund or Payment repositories, and make the project your own with personalized customizations! The challenge link even has some simple walk-throughs available to help you get started.

Remember to customize your DAPP using Soroban this weekend for a chance to win a Power Bank for you and each of your teammates!

🥇 First Prize: Power Bank

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.

Learn more about the tools and opportunities with Google Cloud by joining the Google Cloud Student Innovators program -goo.gle/student-innovators. Winners will receive a Google Cloud branded backpack!

Be sure to redeem your Google Cloud Credits as soon as possible through the Google Cloud Credit Form. Use the promo code in your pre-event email to access the form!

🥇 First Prize: Google Cloud Backpack

Best Use of MATLAB

MATLAB and Simulink are computational tools used at over 100,000 businesses, government and university sites in over 190 countries. Use MATLAB and/or Simulink exclusively or integrate them into another tool for your next hack to win an exclusive MathWorks branded Wireless YoYo Speaker! You can also claim a free MATLAB software license to get started.

🥇 First Prize: Wireless YoYo Speaker

Most Viable Startup Prize

This track is designed to identify and reward the project with the highest potential to evolve into a successful startup. We’re looking for innovative ideas that not only challenge the status quo but also demonstrate a clear path to market viability. This is your chance to turn your innovative idea into a viable startup and get ahead of the hundreds of applicants who apply to Dubhacks Next every year!

🥇 First Prize: $$$ Prize & expedited interview for DubHacks Next

Best Accessibility Hack by Fidelity

At Fidelity, accessibility is viewed as a major key to the success of their business, which is why they are challenging you to come up with innovative ways to make tech more accessible! We want you to use your hacking skills to find and build solutions that put opportunities and resources within reach for all communities. The team with the best accessibility hack will win a Fidelity branded wireless charger for each team member!

🥇 First Prize: Fidelity Branded Wireless Charger

Best Use of Circle

With Circle, you can embed secure wallets into your app in just minutes. Circle Web3 wallets are compatible with multiple blockchains and are supported by over a dozen programming language SDKs. Circle’s programmable wallets will enable you to add secure transactions to your hackathon project using RESTful APIs, with options for both user and developer controlled transactions. If your hackathon idea involves in-app purchases, user to user payments, app to user payments, or all of the above, integrating Circle programmable wallets to your Web2 or Web3 tech-stack may be the perfect solution.

**Sign up for a developer account** and start using Circle’s APIs today, for a chance to win a Circle Branded Hardware Wallet for you and each of your teammates!

🥇 First Prize: Circle Branded Hardware Wallet