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Hack the North 2021 Finalists (17)

The finalists of Hack the North 2021! Judging Type: Live Demos on Discord

Best Use of CockroachDB

Use CockroachDB in your hackathon app for a chance to win the Best Use of CockroachDB prize (an iPad mini for each team member up to 4 members) and an opportunity to be featured on our Twitch channel.

Judging Type: Devpost Submissions

Hootsuite API Prize

A Raspberry Pi 4 will be awarded to each member of the winning team who makes the best use of the Hootsuite API to improve how we communicate in today's connected world.

Additionally, the winners will have the opportunity for a virtual meet-and-greet and Q&A with our CTO, Ryan Donovan, and receive an invitation to interview for our upcoming software developer co-op roles.

Please request access to our API ASAP by following steps here: https://developer.hootsuite.com/docs/setup-an-app

Judging Type: Devpost Submissions + live judging for the top 10 finalists

Supercharge your Apps with EdgeML using Rune

Hammer of the Gods (HOT-G) will be hosting a "Supercharge your Apps with edgeML using Rune" contest. Build your own runes using HOT-G API.

Please join our discord by visiting https://bit.ly/3gOUvCp and announce yourself in the #General channel so our team can welcome you on board! To begin your own rune project, join #Beginners channel on our discord to talk to our finest engineers in the industry. Each winner will be judged on the following level of prizes - 1st winner $1K, 2nd winner $500 and 3rd winner $250.

Additionally, the winners will have the opportunity for a virtual meet-and-greet with Founder, Kartik Thakore, for exclusive Q&A.

Devpost Submissions + live judging for the top 10 finalists

Best use of Voiceflow

Win a prize pack for you and your team that includes exclusive Voiceflow Swag, along with either an Alexa Echo Dot or Google Home Mini.

Devpost Submissions + live judging for the top 10 finalists

Ubisoft Hackers NEST API Challenge

Each member of the winning team will be awarded a $500 prize. Use our custom Ubisoft Hackers NEST API to demonstrate your abilities as a game developer and take us on a journey! Please visit our virtual booth and attend our workshop to learn more about the API and get access to the key!

Judging Type: Devpost Submissions

Best Use of Google Cloud (2)

Use any Google Cloud product, including Firebase, and submit your project. This category is for all skill levels and use-levels. Prize of Google Cloud-branded backpack for each team member.

Judging Type: Devpost Submissions for the top 10 finalists

Coda: A Doc is What you Make of It

Prize: 3 Team Level Subscriptions for 1 Year

Coda is the all-in-one doc that brings words, data, and teams together. It starts with a blinking cursor on a blank page and can grow as big as your team’s ambition. Coda comes with a set of building blocksーlike pages for infinite depth, tables that talk to each other, and buttons that take action inside or outside your docーso anyone can make a doc as powerful as an app. People have made Coda docs that do everything from launch products, to scale small businesses, to help them study for tests. What will you Coda?

This prize will be awarded to the team that publishes the most impressive doc. Submissions will be judged on uniqueness, depth of Coda feature usage, and usefulness.

Judging Type: Devpost Submissions + live judging for the top 10 finalists

Hype Labs presents: the Big dApp Energy prize

we are looking for the best blockchain hacks that are a) technically challenging or b) hilarious

everyone on the winning team gets 420.69 DOGE + an interview for Hype Labs!

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Judging Type: Devpost Submissions + live judging for the top 10 finalists

Best Entrepreneurship Hack, presented by Contrary

This prize is for the project with the best business viability, and could potentially turn into a real-world company. Projects submitted should tackle real-world problems and have clear value that could make it a good business.

To qualify, you must include a section in your Devpost submission titled "Business Viability" where you explain why your hack might make a good business.

Prize: $100 cash prize + 30 minute coffee chat with an investor from Contrary Capital

Judging Type: Devpost Submissions + live judging for the top 10 finalists

Microsoft's Best use of Cloud for Social Good

Create a Microsoft Azure-based project which highlights a way to improve people’s lives and lift communities around the world.

The first question every team needs to answer when starting a hack is "What should we build?", closely followed by "Where should we build it?" A great way to get started is to just start building something! We've assembled a collection of self-exploration workshops where your team will do the thing, and see how you can use Microsoft Cloud with your projects. Your team can explore how to deploy and configure a website, add computer vision with IoT, or a low-code project with PowerApps. You'll get hands-on experience, and leave with a template from which you can build your own projects.

Prizes: LinkedIn Learning 1-year Membership (1 per team member), Xbox Ultimate Game Pass (1 per team member), $250 Azure Credit (1 per team member), $500 Donation to Charity (1 per team).

Judging Type: Devpost Submissions

Best Domain Name from Domain.com

Register a .tech domain name using Domain.com during the weekend. Each team may submit one entry per person on the team. Each winning team member will receive a PowerSquare Qi wireless phone charger.

Judging Type: Devpost Submissions

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 web service APIs. Are you building an e-commerce website and want to send text notifications or email confirmations once an order is completed? Or maybe your application needs to verify users based on their mobile numbers? Twilio makes all this possible and more. Build a hack that simplifies your life using any one of Twilio’s APIs for a chance to win a Twilio Swag Box and GameGo Console for you and each of your teammates!

Judging Type: Devpost Submissions

Devpost Achievements

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Judges

Amir Valiani

Amir Valiani
Engineering Lead, Bicycle Health

Anthony Zhang

Anthony Zhang
CTO, Hypotenuse Labs

Ayazhan Zhakhan

Ayazhan Zhakhan
Co-Founder and CTO, Dropbase

Carol Chen

Carol Chen
Member of Technical Staff, Cohere

Danielle Strachman

Danielle Strachman
Partner, 1517 Fund

Jimmy Chan

Jimmy Chan
Co-Founder and CEO, Dropbase

Michael Gibson

Michael Gibson
Partner, 1517 Fund

Nabil Fahel

Nabil Fahel
Head of Talent Growth, Terminal

Rohan Sampath

Rohan Sampath
Co-Founder and CEO, Copilot

Tariq Haddadin

Tariq Haddadin
Program Director, Techstars Toronto

Ajay Malhotra

Ajay Malhotra
Managing Partner, Canada Startup Company

Andy Zhou

Andy Zhou
Co-founder & CTO, Copilot

Arjang Parsa

Arjang Parsa
VP of Products, ApplyBoard

Corbin McElhanney

Corbin McElhanney
Software Engineer, QuEra Computing

Deon Nicholas

Deon Nicholas
CEO & Co-founder, Forethought

Evan Stites-Clayton

Evan Stites-Clayton
CEO, Black Lotus Inc.

Henry Shi

Henry Shi
Co-founder, Snapcommerce

Jacob Willemsma

Jacob Willemsma
Founding Engineer, Lunchclub

Jake Cooper

Jake Cooper
Founder, Railway.app

Jen Dewalt

Jen Dewalt
Founder, Zube

Jordan Jocius

Jordan Jocius
Co-founder, Art Block

Kaitlyn Yong

Kaitlyn Yong
Product Lead, Credit Karma

Kartik Talwar

Kartik Talwar
General Partner, A.Capital

Kartik Thakore

Kartik Thakore
Founder, HOT-G

Katherine Lu

Katherine Lu
Product Manager, Microsoft

Kevin Hofstee

Kevin Hofstee
Director of Product, Nike

Kevin Lau

Kevin Lau
Senior Product Manager, Instacart

Mustafa Nabelsi

Mustafa Nabelsi
Startup Advisor, Communitech

Nima Vaziri

Nima Vaziri
Researcher, Polychain Capital

Qasar Younis

Qasar Younis
CEO, Applied Intuition

Ruchir Swarup

Ruchir Swarup
CTO, Addepar

Sean Young

Sean Young
Associate Director of Product, BrainStation

Sunil Sharma

Sunil Sharma
Managing Director, Techstars Toronto

Victor Vucicevich

Victor Vucicevich
Product Manager, Taplytics

Vishal Mathur

Vishal Mathur
Product, Dapper Labs

Carlos Trevino

Carlos Trevino
CTO and Co-Founder, Fractional

Gautam Gupta

Gautam Gupta
Co-founder, Highbeam

Harshyt Goel

Harshyt Goel
Founding Engineer, Loom

Kate Grandprey-Shores

Kate Grandprey-Shores
Player Dynamics Designer, Riot Games

Mahyar Raissi

Mahyar Raissi
Co-founder & CEO, OpenPhone

Matthieu Di Mercurio

Matthieu Di Mercurio
Director, Data Science, Dialogue

Syam Anupom

Syam Anupom
Founder & CEO, TimeTackle

Tim Romanski

Tim Romanski
Software Engineer, AirMatrix

Judging Criteria

  • Wow factor
    Does the project stand out?
  • Technical Difficulty
    How technically complex is the project?
  • Originality
    Is the project new or unique?
  • Design
    Is the project easy to use and polished?

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