THE GRAND PRIZE
The winner of the HackTM Grand Prize will receive a loot crate full of suprises, which value up to $$$$.
Public Voting for the Grand Prize
Our jury will select the best projects of the hackathon and the shortlisted teams will have the chance to present their projects on stage. You can vote for your favorite project with the badge you receive at registration. Each vote will count as 1 point for the shortlisted projects, which is added to the points already given by the jury. The project with the most points takes away HackTM's Grand Prize!Special Awards
Our jury will also give special recognition to the projects that impress them the most, like Best Design and Best Young Team.
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Best Architecture
- "Builder" ticket to Techsylvania/team member
Best Architecture
1x "Builder" ticket to Techsylvania/team member
The experts from Crossover will give points for:
- Design and architectural patterns used (REST APIs, microservices) - 30%
- Complexity and cloud usage (deployment to a cloud platform - AWS/Azure/Firebase) - 30%
- Automated builds/Jenkins - 10%
- Source control usage (github, bitbucket) - 10%
- TDD and/or Unit testing - 10%
- Open libraries (relevance of used frameworks in the project implementation) - 10%
Power of Connected Award
- STM32L4 Discovery kit/team member
- Honeywell Lyric T6 Wi-Fi Smart Thermostat/team member
Power of Connected Award
1x STM32L4 Discovery kit + 1x Honeywell Lyric T6 Wi-Fi Smart Thermostat/team member
The Honeywell team will ask:
- How innovative is the idea?
- How's the overall quality of the solution?
- Is your solution really Green?
- Team work!
- Is it fun to use?
- How well did you pitch the project to the judges?
Most Useful Administration & Community App
- Nexus 5x 32Gb phone/team member
Most Useful Administration & Community App
1x Nexus 5x 32Gb phone/team member
Here's what the Irian team will look for when awarding this prize:
- An app for the administration to provide better or easier access to services for people
or
- An app for the communities to facilitate interaction with the administration
The app should be either web and/or mobile.
The judges will give points for:
- impact
- user experience & UI design
- technical complexity
- completeness & time to real-life launch
Best Game
- Xbox One Slim/team member
Best Game
Xbox One Slim/team member
The iSoftBet team will award you based on the following:
- Originality
- Uniqueness, inspiration and concept: Watcha got that others don't?
- Art Style
- Overall originality, execution: How artsy can u get?
- Sound: Pretty music or the sound of silence
- Visual: Amaze us! We dare you!
- How it all came together: Do they all match, or did you put everything you could find online for free? (wink)
- Functionality
- Quality: No bugs or crashes
- Completness: Is the game finished?
- Features: How many, how good?
- Programming complexity: Algorithms, physics, IA, VR and other fancy stuff
- UX
- Usable, easy to understand & play: Can my granny play it?
- Stimulation
- Player engagement: I could play for hours!
- Gameplay
- Will our QA hate it?
- Presentation Skills
- Pitch: Would I buy this based just on the pitch?
- Rhetorics: Talking skills
- Functionality of the game during presentation: How shy is your game in front of an audience?
- Presentation support: power point, emulator, simulator, etc: Good luck finding time for those tho'
- Business
- Cross platform (dreamy eyes)
- Monetisation / Bussiness plan: How do you get rich?
- Branding: How cool is the name? Can you also describe your game with 1 word / 1 image, anything?
- Event related
- Teamwork during hackathon: We're always watching
- Presence at the hackathon: Nope, we won't give you a prize if you wfh
- Involvement: If you're here, let's have some fun!
- Interaction with iSoftBet: We'd really like to talk to you
- Fun: Did you really feel the hackin' spirit? Is the force with you?
Best IoT Project
- SYMA X5UW Drone/team member
Best IoT Project
1x SYMA X5UW drone/team member
The judges from Ness will value:
- originality (the idea is not present on the market or at least it covers a limited niche)
- adaptability (it can be easily adapted to customer needs, can be enhanced easily)
- industry applicability (i.e. covers a clear defined need)
- interconnectivity (it can be connected to other devices available on the market)
- production costs (acceptable bill of materials)
Most Eco Friendly App
- Kindle Glare 6 eBook Reader/team member
Most Eco Friendly App
1x Kindle Glare 6 eBook Reader/team member
The Unified Post judges will value:
- relevance to the topic: Best Environmentally-Friendly Project
- overall creativity and innovation of the project or idea
- design
- user experience
- ratio of reused code vs fresh code
- resource consumption rate (CPU, RAM)
- alogrithms used (if any)
- project completion ratio
- overall presentation of the project