Howdy from RowdyHacks! Come network, hang out, and hack with us Oct 3rd-4th!

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Requirements

Judging

You must be present to demonstrate your project during the judging period

What to Submit to Devpost

Submissions should include a github repository including the sourcecode for the project (used for validation), and any links to deployed versions of your project.

Hackathon Sponsors

Prizes

17 non-cash prizes
Overall Track 1st Place
1 winner

Meta Ray-Ban (Gen 2)

Overall Track 2nd Place
1 winner

Apple Watch SE 3

Overall Track 3rd Place
1 winner

Apple Airpods 5

Hardware Track
1 winner

CanaKit Raspberry Pi 4 4GB Starter PRO Kit

RowdyHacks × Cyber Jedis CTF
1 winner

USB Rubber Ducky

Best Design
1 winner

XP-PEN Artist12

Best Theme
1 winner

Samsung 27" Odyssey G5 Gaming Monitor

Swivel Challenge
1 winner

1st PLACE: Present project to SWIVEL leadership at a later date, custom swivel hoodie, backpack, fusion notebook, mousepad.

2nd PLACE: Speaker, Swivel hat.

Investment Society
2 winners

The prize for this track is to be determined

Beginner Track
3 winners

1st PLACE: Maxshot Electric Scooter
2nd PLACE: Portable 1TB External HDD
3rd PLACE: JBL Flip 5

MLH - Best Use of Presage
1 winner

Prize: Fitbit Inspire and Presage Perks
Presage is pioneering the Human Sensing Layer, enabling any application to understand a person’s real-time physical and emotional state. With Presage, you can leverage clinically-proven vital signs, movement, emotion, and/or focus tracking to build a project that gives the standard camera super powers.

Use any of the Presage SDKs to integrate capabilities like real-time heart rate, breathing rate, engagement levels, and facial expressions into your hack with just a few lines of code.

Immersive Gaming & Entertainment: Dynamically change game difficulty or story elements based on a player's excitement or focus levels.
Contactless Wellness & Fitness: Build a non-invasive app that monitors stress, recovery, or fitness performance.
Accessibility & Security: Utilize vital signs for effortless authentication, or to enhance accessibility.
Productivity: Design a tool that tracks focus or stress.
Build your next hack with Presage and show us the future of human-computer interaction! Win awesome prizes along for with the following perks from the Presage team:
Free refills for Presage Development credits to accelerate you through your next three months of building
30% off all Presage usage charges for your first year after going live

MLH - Best Use of Solana
1 winner

Prize: SenseCAP Card Tracker
The world of development is evolving fast and Solana is leading the charge with a network built to handle all of your infrastructure needs. Forget high fees and slow confirmations, it’s time to build applications that are fast, efficient, and scalable.

Harness Solana’s core advantages like blazing fast execution and near-zero transaction costs to make your hackathon ideas become real world projects. With Solana, the possibilities are endless.

Create a game, social app, or consumer product that relies on instant, high-frequency transactions.
Design a sophisticated trading, lending, or decentralized exchange (DEX).
Build a prototype for supply chain, identity, or payments that can handle massive, real-world volume.
Show us how you can innovate with Solana for a chance to win some cool prizes for you and each member of your team!

MLH - Best Use of Vultr
1 winner

Prize: M5Stack Official Tab5
Vultr empowers hackers to bring their high-performance projects to life instantly; providing everything from the speed of one-click deployment and scalable cloud compute, to specialized Vultr Cloud GPUs that can power AI-driven applications. We want you to push the limits of what can be built when infrastructure is no longer the bottleneck!

Sign up for a Vultr account today and claim your free cloud credits! Take your next hack to the cloud with Vultr for a chance to win some awesome prizes for you and your team!

MLH - Best Use of Tiger Data
1 winner

Prize: Stream Deck Mini
Building high-performance apps under hackathon deadlines shouldn't mean spending half your weekend configuring complex databases or learning obscure query languages. Tiger Data extends PostgreSQL to give student developers an ultra-fast foundation for real-time data, time-series metrics, and complex analytics.

Why build with Tiger Data this weekend?

Standard SQL Power: Query massive datasets instantly using the SQL you already know, with no complex NoSQL aggregation pipelines required.

Unified Data Stack: Store relational user profiles and high-frequency metric streams side-by-side in a single database.

Instant Dashboards: Serve lag-free, real-time frontend charts using pre-computed Continuous Aggregates.

90%+ Data Compression: Store millions of events on free-tier cloud instances without running out of disk space.

Whether you’re building real-time IoT monitoring, AI-driven analytics dashboards, or financial prediction engines, show us how Tiger Data powers your project. The team that demonstrates the most innovative, impactful, and performance-driven use of Tiger Data will take home some great prizes!

MLH - Best Use of ElevenLabs
1 winner

Prize: Wireless Earbuds
Deploy natural, human-sounding audio with ElevenLabs. Create realistic, dynamic, and emotionally expressive voices for any project, from interactive AI companions to narrated stories and voice-enabled apps. ElevenLabs will empower you to build rich, immersive experiences without the need for actors or complex audio production, using simply the power of AI.

Integrate fully autonomous audio experiences into your hack with ElevenLabs and give your project a voice, along with giving your team the chance to win some wireless earbuds!

MLH - Best Use of Gemini API
1 winner

Prize: MLH Swag Kits
It’s time to push the boundaries of what’s possible with AI using Google Gemini. Check out the Gemini API to build AI-powered apps that make your friends say WHOA. So, what can Gemini do for your hackathon project?

Understand language like a human and build a chatbot that gives personalized advice
Analyze info like a supercomputer and create an app that summarizes complex research papers
Generate creative content like code, scripts, music, and more
Think of the possibilities… what will you build with the Google Gemini API this weekend?

MLH - Best Domain Name from GoDaddy Registry
1 winner

Prize: Digital Gift Card
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 some amazing prizes!

Devpost Achievements

Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:

Judges

Cayden Hutcheson

Cayden Hutcheson

Zander Brysch

Zander Brysch

Judging Criteria

  • Ingenuity
    How original or inventive the solutions is.
  • Creativity
    The use of the imagination or original ideas, especially in the production of an artistic work.
  • Technical Proficiency
    How effective is the solution?
  • Growth
    Did they push the boundaries of learning something new over the weekend?

Questions? Email the hackathon manager

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