Smart City

Our cities need to change as dynamically as technological evolution and to offer residents a lifestyle based on constant modernization and civic involvement. Find solutions that will make your city a more efficient and intelligent place to live!

Judging Criteria:

  • Usefulness
  • Innovation
  • Scalability
  • Customizability
  • Implementation costs (the cheaper, the better)
  • Complexity

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Prize offered by Liga AC:

500€ / team


Digital Education

Education around the world has changed and we need better tools and ways to educate and learn more effectively.  Empower students of all ages and encourage lifelong learning through any sort of technology that augments and enhances the learning experiences of students, whether by studying a traditional curriculum in a classroom or trying to pick up a new hobby or skill. This track also aims to increase the accessibility of information and accommodate various learning styles and strengths.

Judging Criteria:

  • Usefulness
  • Innovation
  • User-friendliness
  • Scalability
  • Customizability

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Prize offered by Liga AC:

500€ / team


Good Health & Well-being

Good Health & Well-being comprise physical health, psychological and emotional stability, and social engagement. Physical wellness involves self-care and a temperate lifestyle. Emotional well-being is psychological well-being encompassing subjective experience and positive emotionality. A stable mood -emotional equanimity- enhances countering negative emotions and physician burnout. Social engagement revolves around interpersonal and social relations. Physician engagement entails a doctor's commitment to studying, and enhancing expertise, and skills toward safe and high-quality patient care. Find solutions that make these problems to be resolved or you can improve them.

Judging Criteria:

  • Usefulness
  • Innovation
  • User-friendliness
  • Novelty / Originality / Innovation
  • Completeness
  • Performance

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Prize offered by Oncogen Association:

500€ / team


Business Project Prize

Cowork Timisoara and Fonduri-Structurale.ro will offer the prize for the project that has the highest chance of becoming a business after the hackathon. You will have the chance of winning 4 hours/month for 3 months of mentorship in the field of entrepreneurship; 30 days of hosting at Cowork Timișoara - The Office; 4 hours of consultancy in non-refundable financing and crowdfunding.

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Prize:

4 hours/month for 3 months of entrepreneurship mentorship; 30 days of hosting at Cowork; 4 hours of consultancy in financing;


Best Domain Name from Domain.com

Register a .Tech domain name using Domain.com during the weekend for your chance to win a Domain.com branded backpack for you and each member of your team! Each team may submit one entry per person on the team. The more creative the domain the better!

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Prize:

Domain.com Branded Backpack


Best Use of DeSo

DeSo is the official Web3 sponsor of the MLH Hackathon League and the first Layer 1 blockchain custom-built for decentralized social media applications. While a blockchain like Avalanche costs $0.50+ to store just a 200-character post, the DeSo blockchain is built with custom indexing and storage optimizations which make it 10,000X cheaper to store social content on-chain! In order to qualify for the contest, build a hack that uses the DeSo API. While social media apps are a great fit for DeSo, you can also build financial apps, marketplaces, and more on the DeSo blockchain. To get started, sign up for a DiamondApp account, make a post tagging @deso with both your event hashtag & #MLH. The DeSo team will then send you even more $DESO coin to build your hackathon project!
 

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Prize:

$100 worth of $DESO coin, an exclusive DeSo branded tumbler, and a YubiKey Security Key!


Best Hack for Social Good by BlackRock

Now is your chance to put your creativity to the test and build the most socially conscious hack for the greater good. Use technology to tackle problems like world hunger, poverty or pollution and earn a chance to win some awesome prizes, courtesy of BlackRock.

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Prize:

KeepCup and Blackrock swag bag


Best Use of Appwrite

Building a full-stack application can be time consuming, especially if you’re more of a frontend developer or lack experience with things like databases or authentication. At hackathons you want to make every minute count, which is why Appwrite is the missing ingredient to your recipe for a successful hack. With all the core backend functionalities you need already pre built and ready for customization, all you’ll need to do is make an API call to take advantage of an Appwrite database, media storage, user auth, and even custom compute functions. Use Appwrite in your hack this weekend for a chance to take home some Fitbits for you and your team.

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Prize:

Fitbit Inspire 2 Tracker


Best Sustainability Hack sponsored by Avanade

Avanade has put sustainable tech at the forefront of their ongoing mission! Sustainability is about conserving an ecological balance by avoiding depletion of natural resources and focusing efforts to reduce and improve the environmental impact of technology, processes, and operations on our planet and society. For your hackathon project, we want you to make a genuine human impact using your ingenuity to address sustainability through an innovative use of technology. Demonstrate how you can create a more sustainable future and help the environment.

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Prize:

Assorted Lego Sets

Grand Prize

2000 EUR / team
Major League Hacking 2023 Hackathon Season