Dates

 

Registration deadline:  December 9th, 2024, 11:59 pm EST

Hacking starts:  December 10th, 2024

Submission deadline:  December 17th, 2024, 11:59 pm EST

Updated Submission deadline: December 31st, 11:59 pm EST (Groups will have an extra 2 weeks to complete their projects)

Eligibility:

 

  • The Participant must be a Penn Engineering Online student
  • Each student can only join one team
  • Each team can only submit to one track
  • Each team can have 2-4 students

 

Project and Submission Requirements

 

In this open-ended hackathon, you are free to choose a project of your choice using any programming language, with the primary goal being to learn and build something new and valuable to add to your portfolio. You can submit to one of these five themes:

  • AI for Good
  • Climate action / Water or Agriculture
  • Finance
  • Tools for Frontline Workers (Healthcare, Transport, Food supply,  Education/ Special Education professionals, etc.)
  • General

 

To be considered for an award, you will need to do 4 things:

 

  • Complete registration before December 9th 2024, 11:59 pm EST
  • Submit GitHub repo to Devpost using official README.md template by December 31st 17th 2024, 11:59 pm EST
  • Submit 5 minute max demo video to Devpost by December 31st 17th 2024, 11:59 pm EST
  • Submit a writeup for your project via Devpost by December 31st 17th 2024, 11:59 pm EST

 

Prizes

Winners will be announced based on each of the 5 categories or on an overall basis (to be decided).

 

Judging Criteria and Winner Selection

  • Project idea / Innovation (10 points)
    How well does the project address/solve a need or problem in any field/community? Does it have any interesting design/novel features or is it something known to all?
  • Implementation (10 points)
    How technically challenging is it to solve the problem? Does the software have any critical errors, many bugs or minimal to no bugs? Any use of architecture/software design patterns in the code?
  • Design (5 points)
    Did the group consider carefully the user experience? How well is the user interface designed?
  • Scalability / Ease of adoption (5 points)
    Does the project have the potential to scale? What is the likelihood of its adoption by stakeholders, intended users, etc.?
  • Presentation (5 points)
    Did the group provide a thoughtful elevator pitch that explains the problem statement and how their project can be useful to others in comparison to other interventions? Did the group explain the logic behind the code in a methodical manner?

This event is open to all Penn Engineering Online current students. It is a great opportunity to work on an open-ended project of your choice with classmates from the Penn Engineering Online community. The primary motivation is for you to learn something new, build something cool, and boost your portfolio! Any programming language is permissible.