Looking to boost your skills for your resume? Want to gain some experience and insight by working on real world problems alongside industry mentors? How about the chance to win cash for your input and ideas?
UNC Charlotte students from all majors, backgrounds and levels of experience come together for a common focus over the weekend of Oct. 20-22 to share ideas and creations. Students will collaborate in a low-stakes environment to design, develop and pitch ideas that solve real world problems.
Each participant will receive an Entrepreneurial Thinking Micro-Credential!
Challenges:
- Digital Transformation: AI, Advancing Personalized Learning, Enhancing Virtual Reality and Health Informatics
- Sustainability: How can we make solar energy more economical? How can we provide access to clean water? Restoring and Improving Urban Infrastructure. Food Insecurity.
- Securing Cyberspace: Supply Chain, Security, Digital Trust and Financial Security.
- Social Impact: Community Engagement
- OPEN: Already have a topic you want to tackle? Submit an overview to the committee. This category will be limited, so submit your idea as soon as possible.
Resources will be available for participants to review and focus in on a problem they would like to work on during the Golden Hack: Impact Weekend.
Requirements
End products will vary, depending on your track.
Some will be hardware, others will be software, and it can also be a well defined and developed plan.
The end product will be a 3-4 minute video submission covering the following. It does not have to be in this order, but we woudl like to see each of the components in there.
`1) What problem are you solving?
2) Who are you solving this problem for?
3) What is your solution? Why are you different? What value are you bringing the customer?
4) Demo of your solution
5) Your team and what you have learned
Prizes
3 Prize Categories to be Awarded
We will be awarding $6000 in prizes.
Devpost Achievements
Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:
Judges
Devin Collins
Director
Aru Anavekar
CEO & Founder, Botsplash
Chad Stachowicz
Founder & CEO, Cloverhound
Terence Fagan
Faculty, William States Lee College of Engineering
Charles J. Lord, PE
Chair, IEEE
Miguel Avila
President and CEO, Daily View Pools
Meg Harkins
Faculty, William States Lee College of Engineering
Joshua McCray
Cyber Security Architect, Honeywell
Mohamed Shehab
Faculty, College of Computing and Informatics
Judging Criteria
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How would you rate the originality of the project?
Project has unique concept compared to existing solutions. Demonstrates awareness of current market trends. -
How would you rate the execution of the project?
Project objectives and goals defined. Team worked effectively and collaboratively. -
How would you rate the usefulness of the project?
Project effectively addresses a problem. Project effectively satisfies users. -
How would you rate the presentation of the project?
Content is clear and easy to understand. Focused on key points and objectives. -
How would you rate the learning of the project?
Team members acquired new skills, competencies or expertise. Knowledge gained was effectively transferred.
Questions? Email the hackathon manager
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