Project and Submission Requirements

For your project to be considered for judging, all members of your team must have registered for HackHolyoke and be checked in. The project itself must have been made exclusively between Saturday Nov. 12th 10:30 AM EST and Sunday Nov. 13th 1:30 PM EST. It can use APIs and libraries, but they must all be explicitly cited on the Devpost submission.

If you have any questions about the submission process, ask them in the #ask-an-organizer channel of Discord.

Challenges

Best Beginner Hack

The more we interact with the computer on a daily basis, the more people want to learn to code. Try to create a platform for the newbie to this community.  Everyone has a day as a beginner. Think about your challenges and struggles when you started learning about coding. Which tools and resources do you wish to know earlier?

Best Remote Health Hack

The demand for telehealth tools has increased greatly in recent years, especially after the first outbreak of COVID-19 in 2020. How can you make remote health care services more accessible and help better others’ physical and mental health?

Best Environment-focused Hack

Passionate about the environment? Create a project that is meaningful to you and find the best solution for problems centered on sustainability, energy use, climate change, and environmental monitoring!

Best Innovative Hack

Got a knack for creativity? Not sure if your project fits into the other challenges? Then this challenge is for you! This challenge is for projects that show exemplary work of visuals and originality.

Social Good: Empowering the Community

Passionate about leveraging your programming skills to leave a positive impact on the society? Pool your ideas in for minimizing the gender gap in tech, promote safety, or innovate to solve a problem that affects your society. Choose a societal issue that you want to create a change for!

 

Judging Criteria

  • Ease of Use
    Is the program easy to use? Does it have a clear user interface? Is it accessible?
  • Ambition
    Is the usage of the technology/goal of the project ambitious and challenging?
  • Innovation
    Does the technology/design break new ground? Does it attack a new problem and provide a good solution?
  • Functionality
    Is the project fully functional (90-100%)? Does it meet intentions?