Event Schedule

Period	Begins	Ends
Submissions	October 15th – 8:00am EDT	October 16th – 6:00pm EDT
Public Voting	October 16th – 6:00pm EDT	October 16th – 7:00pm EDT
Judging	October 16th – 6:00pm EDT	October 16th – 8:00pm EDT
Winners Announced		October 16th – 8:30pm EDT

Requirements

What to Build

Any project that you think fits into our prize tracks listed below!

What to Submit

A link to your GitHub code repository for judging - remember to make it public or give access to girlshoohack@gmail.com
A 3-5 minute video that demonstrates your project (hosted on YouTube, Vimeo, etc, and made public). Feel free to talk about the tools used, the inspiration behind the project, or anything else!
Identify which track(s) your project fits into

Hackathon Sponsors

Prizes

$24,674 in prizes

Best Overall (2)

1st place - iPAD 10.2-inch 64 GB ($300), one year of Wolfram|One Personal Edition plus a one-year subscription to Wolfram|Alpha Pro ($375) for each team member

2nd place - Apple watch series 3 ($200), one year of Wolfram|One Personal Edition plus a one-year subscription to Wolfram|Alpha Pro ($375) for each team member

Best Female Empowerment (2)

1st place - Airpods generation 2 ($120), Amazon Fire Stick ($20), one year of Wolfram|One Personal Edition plus a one-year subscription to Wolfram|Alpha Pro ($375) for each team member

2nd place - Apple Airtag ($29), Polaroid ($67), one year of Wolfram|One Personal Edition plus a one-year subscription to Wolfram|Alpha Pro ($375) for each team member

Best Meme

JBL Tune Headphones ($50), 'What Do You Meme Game' ($30) for each team member

Best Social Good

Mini instant photo printer ($67), $100 for a charity of the team's choice

Best Beginner

LED keyboard and wireless mouse ($21), Laptop stand ($40), one year of Wolfram|One Personal Edition plus a one-year subscription to Wolfram|Alpha Pro ($375) for each team member

Best Community

Home projector ($100) for each team member

Best Live Demo

Bluetooth Microphone ($50), one year of Wolfram|One Personal Edition plus a one-year subscription to Wolfram|Alpha Pro ($375) for each team member

Most Futuristic

DEERC Drone ($100)

Best Financial Hack

$250 gift cards for each team member (sponsored by Capital One)

Most Innovative Educational Hack

$50 gift card for each team member

Best Use of Google Cloud (2)

Build your hackathon project with a suite of secure storage, powerful compute, and integrated data analytics products provided by Google Cloud. See full list of products here: g.co/cloud. Winners located in the US will receive a Google Cloud Swag Bag complete with a beanie, Android pillow, journal, socks & lanyards. Winners outside of the US will receive a Google Cloud branded backpack.

Most Creative Use of Twilio

Twilio allows you to incorporate mobile messaging, phone calls and a ton of other awesome communication features right into your hackathon project using a web service API. Are you building an e-commerce website and want to send text notifications or email confirmations once an order is completed? Or maybe you'd like to verify users based on their mobile numbers? Twilio makes all this possible and more. Build a hack that simplifies your life using any Twilio API for a chance to win a Twilio Swag Box & GameGo Console ! Get started with $50 in free credit

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!

Best Blockchain Project Using Hedera

Glorious Modular Compact Mechanical Keyboard Hedera is a next generation blockchain technology that’s accessible from familiar programming languages like Java and JavaScript. Their goal? To make Web3 development even more accessible to hackers like you! Build a project on Hedera's test network for a chance to win amazing Glorious Modular Compact Mechanical Keyboards for you and your team!

Best Accessibility Hack sponsored by Fidelity

Fidelity Branded Wireless Charger At Fidelity, accessibility is viewed as a major key to the success of their business, which is why they are challenging you to come up with innovative ways to make tech more accessible! We want you to use your hacking skills to find and build solutions that put opportunities and resources within reach to all communities. The team with the best accessibility hack will win a Fidelity branded wireless charger for each team member!

Judges

GHH Judges

Judging Criteria

Creativity and Design
The project should showcase originality and uniqueness, as well as reflect creative thinking.
Implementation
The problem should be solved effectively and efficiently.
Impact
The project should be applicable to a real-world problem and its solution should have a positive impact.
Presentation/Demo
The team provides a brief overview of the problem they are trying to solve. The team walks through their project and explains what it accomplishes. All team members play a role in the demo and speak in an engaging manner.
Functionality
The deliverable works as intended.
Learning
In their Devpost, the team should include their technical background prior to the project as well as what technical components they learned throughout the project.
Technical Difficulty
The project demonstrates an effort to showcase a wide variety of complex and innovative technologies used
Collaboration
The work was split equally between members of the team and working together made the team stronger. In order to promote teamwork, those who work alone will receive no points in this category

Girls Hoo Hack 2022

Girls Hoo Hack is a gender-inclusive, women-centered hackathon that is focused on promoting innovation while celebrating diversity.

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