hackBCA is one of the first ever high school hackathons! It will be hosted at the Bergen County Academies high school in Hackensack, New Jersey. A hackathon is an event in which teams spend the weekend building something awesome and then demo it. hackBCA isn’t your traditional hackathon; we also allow and encourage not just software devs to attend, but also musicians, engineers, scientists, etc. Whether that means slinging mad code, producing hard beats, or even hacking together a sentient robot, as long as you make something, you can qualify to win prizes!
Most hackathons in the past have either excluded high school students or been created for college students. We plan to change this. High school students are more than capable of making awesome hacks, and hackBCA will prove this!
Eligibility
The participants must be enrolled in high school at the time of the event.
TeamsWe recommend that teams have no more than 4 members.
Requirements
Each team must submit one submission by 11am on Sunday. If a team does not submit a hack by 11am, they will not be able to demo or qualify for prizes. Any submission that has been found to have been started before the start of the hackathon is subject to be disqualified, at the discretion of the hackBCA organizers.
JudgingJudging will be based on creativity, usefulness, polish and technical difficulty.
Prizes
First Place
Tech Mentorship by VenturePact
Moto X's
Second Place
Kindle Fires
Third Place
Pebble Watches
Top 20 Teams
(20)
Free 1 year WolframAlpha Pro and 1 year Mathematica for Student licenses
Hello World
Free Treehouse Accounts
*Only for newbies to coding
Best Edu-Related App
Kindles
Most Polished
Wacom Tablets
Best App That is Currently Live
Beats by Dr. Dre
Intel
(2)
Samsung Galaxy Tab 3s
Tokbox Prize
$200 Credit
Dwolla
4 Raspberry Pi Starter Kits
Twilio
SparkFun Arduino Inventor kits
Twitch
Free Year of Twitch Turbo
Namecheap's Best Domain Registered
3 $100 Namecheap Credits
SendGrid
NY TechDay
Free Booth at NY TechDay
Devpost Achievements
Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:
How to enter
- Go to hackbca.com
- Press the register button
- Fill out the registration
- Check your inbox
- Fill out the form
- Get ready for a blast!
Judges
Judging Criteria
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Technical skill/difficulty
Coding ain't always easy. Make sure to look at the effort the team put into the project -
Creativity
Is the hack original? The team's project is a new and different or they've reinvented an old idea and given it a new perspective -
Usefulness
Is this hack going to be helpful? Does it have purpose? Will it have a positive impact on anything? -
Polish
Not this polish: http://reddit.com/r/polish We're talking about clean cut aesthetics and user interaction
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