1st Place Overall

$1.75K per team member.

2nd Place Overall

$1.25K per team member

3rd Place Overall

$0.75K per team member.

Effortlessly Entertaining

Capture your audience’s attention by creating engaging entertainment!

Prize: Meta Quest 2 VR Headset 128 GB

Retro Hack

Repurpose old software or hardware into something new!

Prize: Nintendo Switch OLED

Altruistic Hack

Level up your community by building a project focused on social good!

Prize: Fujifilim Instax Mini EVO Hybrid Instant Camera

Twisted Reality

Arcades are known for their flashing lights and kaleidoscope of colors — build a project that is visually exhilarating!

Prize: Apple Watch Series 8

Upgrade

Enhance any application or service with your very own extension!

Prize: Gotrax GXL V2 Electric Scooter

Data-Driven

Crunch the numbers to get a high score—use data to find insights!

Prize: Sony WH-1000XM5 Wireless Noise Canceling Headphones

Cheat Code Hack

Develop your own personal cheat code that makes your life easier!

Prize: LG 32-Inch QHD (2560 x 1440) Monitor

Best Overall - Emerging

Based off of judging scores from Expo!

Prize: Nintendo Switch Lite

Best Hardware Hack - Emerging

Project’s overall solution is outstanding and goes above and beyond in purpose and/or entertainment. Elegant and clean presentation of project, no loose parts, tape, etc. showing, and outer appearance properly decorated.

Prize: LG 32-Inch QHD (2560 x 1440) Monitor

Best Application - Emerging

Develop a practical web or mobile application that could be used on a daily basis.

Prize: Beats Studio Buds

Best Expo Pitch - Emerging

Communicate your idea and express yourselves to the world! Share how your project relates to yourselves, and why you decided to work on it.

Prize: Bose SoundLink Flex Bluetooth Portable Speaker

Best Design - Emerging

Simple yet elegant and purposeful—project design is effective and efficient in fulfilling its purpose; very intuitive to any ordinary user and is innovative, aesthetic, and thorough to the last detail.

Prize: Polaroid Now+ White Bluetooth Connected Instant Film Camera

Best Use of Velo by Wix

We know how difficult it can be to create a phenomenal website in a short period of time, especially when it comes to hackathons. Velo by Wix cuts down your development without sacrificing functionality! With a built-in database and fully customizable JavaScript front-end and back-end, you can develop a full-stack application directly in your browser. With Velo, all the tools you need are conveniently located in one platform! Build your hackathon project with Velo by Wix for a chance to win Wacom Drawing Tablets for you and each of your teammates.

Best Use of Google Cloud

Build your hackathon project with a suite of secure storage, powerful computing, and integrated data analytics products provided by Google Cloud. See the 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.

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 Accessibility Hack sponsored by Fidelity

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!

Best Use of DeSo

DeSo is the official Web3 sponsor of the MLH Hackathon League and the first Layer 1 blockchain custom-built for decentralized social media applications. While a blockchain like Avalanche costs $0.50+ to store just a 200-character post, the DeSo blockchain is built with custom indexing and storage optimizations which make it 10,000X cheaper to store social content on-chain! In order to qualify for the contest, build a hack that uses the DeSo API. While social media apps are a great fit for DeSo, you can also build financial apps, marketplaces, and more on the DeSo blockchain. To get started, sign up for a DiamondApp account, make a post tagging @deso with both your event hashtag & #MLH. The DeSo team will then send you even more $DESO coin to build your hackathon project! On top of that, the team with the Best Use of DeSo gets $100 worth of $DESO coin, an exclusive DeSo branded tumbler, and a YubiKey Security Key!

BlackRock - 1st Place

Build a tool to help individual investors or organizations understand and manage the impact of market volatility. This is open to interpretation, and your solution can help individuals or organizations with investments, retirement, or other financial decisions.

T-Mobile - 1st Place

Create a Mobile App that best promotes “Privacy and Information Security” for T-Mobile customers. What you develop is open to interpretation; it can be the entire purpose of the app or a feature of the app. Security and privacy are best when they are integrated in the development of the app—protect your users from the beginning.

Carelon - 1st Place

Innovative hacks that:

- Advance the person's Whole Health - lifestyle, mind, and body
- Replace traditional medicine with higher-quality digital medicine
- Help digital non-natives, elderly, immigrants, or persons with special needs
- Middleware that help integration or platforms that enable new use cases
- Whatever else you come up with that can contribute to this revolution in improving overall health and well-being!

BlackRock - 2nd Place

Build a tool to help individual investors or organizations understand and manage the impact of market volatility. This is open to interpretation, and your solution can help individuals or organizations with investments, retirement, or other financial decisions.

T-Mobile - 2nd Place

Create a Mobile App that best promotes “Privacy and Information Security” for T-Mobile customers. What you develop is open to interpretation; it can be the entire purpose of the app or a feature of the app. Security and privacy are best when they are integrated in the development of the app—protect your users from the beginning.

Carelon - 2nd Place

Innovative hacks that:

- Advance the person's Whole Health - lifestyle, mind, and body
- Replace traditional medicine with higher-quality digital medicine
- Help digital non-natives, elderly, immigrants, or persons with special needs
- Middleware that help integration or platforms that enable new use cases
- Whatever else you come up with that can contribute to this revolution in improving overall health and well-being!