Hack the North 2023 Finalist (12)

The finalists of Hack the North 2023!

Best Use of Cohere (3)

1st Prize:
• $500 cash, per team member! (for a max of 4 team members)
• $4,000 in Cohere Credits for the winning team (to be shared amongst team) 
2nd Place:
• $100 cash, per team member (for a max of 4 team members)
• $2,000 in Cohere credits (to be shared amongst team)
3rd Place:
• $1,000 in Cohere credits (to be shared amongst team)

Best Hack Using Genesys (3)

1st Prize: $750 Amazon gift card
2nd Prize: $500 Amazon gift card
3rd Prize: $250 Amazon gift card

Best Hack Using CockroachDB Serverless

Qualifying teams will use CockroachDB serverless in their application. Judging will be based on creative and comprehensive use as well as the overall project idea. The winning team will receive a Special CockroachDB Trophy and $100 Amazon Gift Card for each member (up to 4).

Best Hack Built on Replit (3)

Win up to $300 in Replit Cycles for the best hack built using Replit! To be eligible for this prize, your project must be built and hosted on Replit and a Repl link must be submitted for consideration. Projects will be judged based on Originality, Impact, and Execution. Note: All prize earnings will be granted to the team leader whose account is associated with the project.   

We will have three prizes:
• 1st (30,000 Cycles, a value of $300) 
• 2nd (20,000 Cycles, a value of $200)
• 3rd place (10,000 Cycles, a value of $100)

Most Innovative Eye Tracking Application

1st Prize: $1000 cash

Tickets to Solana's 2023 Breakpoint conference in Amsterdam

The winning team that builds with Solana will receive tickets to our upcoming Breakpoint conference (from Oct 30 - Nov 3 in Amsterdam) All participants in Hack the North are also eligible to submit their project to the Solana global hackathon that started today called Hyperdrive. There are about $1m in total prizes and a university specific award of $20k.

Best use of Viam for a project (2)

1st Prize: One Viam rover with raspberry pi and lidar for each member of the winning team (valued at > $300)

Best Hack Using BentoML (2)

Winning team will receive a $500 cash prize and the second place team will receive a $250 cash prize.

Ethereum's Infinite Garden

The Ethereum community has built a booming digital economy, bold new ways for creators to earn online, and so much more.

ETHGlobal will award 1 ETH to the top project building on Ethereum or Ethereum L2

Best use of Syro

1st Prize: Bose QuietComfort 45 headphones ($329 value) and
Timbuk2 Authority Laptop Backpack Deluxe, Eco Black Deluxe ($99 value)

Best Projects Built on ICP (2)

1st place: $2k in cash
2nd place: $1k in cash

Future of Banking: Request Money API

Base URL :=. http://money-request-app.canadacentral.cloudapp.azure.com:8080/api/v1

Postman Collection:

https://github.com/ChandanShukla/MoneyRequestApp/tree/main/postman%20collection

Swagger File:

https://github.com/ChandanShukla/MoneyRequestApp/tree/main/swagger-spec

1st Prize: $250 Visa gift card for each member of the winning team

Best Use of Google Cloud

Google Cloud Backpack
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. Learn more about the tools and opportunities with Google Cloud by joining the Google Cloud Student Innovators program - goo.gle/student-innovators. Winners will receive a Google Cloud branded backpack!

Be sure to redeem your Google Cloud Credits as soon as possible through the Google Cloud Credit Form. Use the promo code in your pre-event email to access the form!

Most Creative Use of GitHub

GitHub Octocat Puzzle & Sticker Pack
GitHub is one of the best ways to collaborate, push code, get feedback, and show the world what you’ve built during a hackathon. To take it a step further, GitHub is now offering you access to industry tools, events & learning resources through something called GitHub Global Campus. Win this weekend’s Most Creative Use of GitHub prize category, first by signing up for GitHub Global Campus and second by using a GitHub repository to host your hackathon project’s code! Make sure your use of GitHub stands out with a detailed ReadMe page, meaningful pull requests and collaboration history, and even a GitHub pages deployment!

Best Use of MongoDB Atlas

M5GO IoT Starter Kit
MongoDB Atlas takes the leading modern database and makes it accessible in the cloud! Get started with a $50 credit for students or sign up for the Atlas free forever tier (no credit card required). Along with a suite of services and functionalities, you'll have everything you need to manage all of your data, and you can get a headstart with free resources from MongoDB University! Build a hack using MongoDB Atlas for a chance to win a M5GO IoT Starter Kit for you and each member of your team.

Best Use of Flow

$100 USD in FLOW Token
Flow is a public, decentralized, layer-one blockchain designed for creating limitless Web3 apps for mainstream adoption. Flow empowers hackers like you to build decentralized applications and share them with the world. Write safe and readable smart contracts with Cadence and explore the potential of composable, on-chain logic. With SDKs in multiple languages like Javascript, Go, Kotlin, Python, Swift, Unity, you can jump in and start your hack using Flow this weekend for a chance to win $100 USD worth of FLOW token for each member of your team!

Best Use of Taipy

JBL Wireless Headphones
Taipy is a powerful yet easy to use open-source Python library for creating full stack web applications! If you’re a Python developer, this library enables you to build interactive and dynamic graphical user interfaces and support them with data-driven backends. All of these functionalities are just a pip install taipy away and can cut your development time in half! Use Taipy in your hackathon project for a chance to win a set of JBL Wireless Headphones for you and each of your team members, as well as a chance to have your project featured on the Taipy website!

Best Use of Soroban

Anker 337 Power Bank
Soroban is an open-source Rust-based developer-friendly smart contracts platform built for scalability. It is interoperable with the layer-1 Stellar blockchain and benefits from the network’s existing global reach and access. With Soroban, developers have the freedom to create applications as borderless as the internet.

Learning how to build Decentralized Applications (DAPPs) using Soroban is easy and fun. Simply follow along with the DAPPs on Soroban challenge by forking either of the Crowdfund or Payment repositories, and make the project your own with personalized customizations! The challenge link even has some simple walk-throughs available to help you get started.

Remember to customize your DAPP using Soroban this weekend for a chance to win an Anker 337 Power Bank for you and each of your teammates!

Best .Tech Domain Name

Make your Team's Achievements timeless: Win a .Tech Domain Name for Life to Showcase and Expand Your Project, Plus 4 Blue Snowball Mics for Effortless Collaboration on Zoom, empowering you to build even more cool things together!