HackBU is a 350-student hackathon at Binghamton University that aims to foster students' passion and interest for challenging themselves with interesting problems.
Eligibility
Currently enrolled college students
Requirements
N/A
Prizes
$1,378 in prizes
First Place!
1738 HackBU Points!
Second Place!
1337 HackBU Points!
Third Place!
679 HackBU Points!
Best Domain Name from Domain.com
Domain.com Swag Bags.
Amazon Web Services - Best Use of AWS
$30 Amazon Hard gift card for each team member
Vanguard's Best Community Hack
(2)
Vanguard swag for each team member!
Citi's Best FinTech Hack
Beats Headphones!
Viacom's Best Internet-of-Things Hack
(2)
Smart Philips Hue Lightstrip Pluses for each member of the winning team.
http://www2.meethue.com/en-us/productdetail/philips-hue-lightstrip-plus
Binghamton ACM's Best Technical Hack
Impress us with fancy algorithms and technically complex hacks! Winning team gets $408 in Amazon gift cards split among themselves.
Best Design
420 HackBU Points
Best From-Scratch
OS APIs + Language Standard Libraries Only
420 HackBU Points
Hippest Stack
Use hip and cool new technologies, languages, and frameworks!
420 HackBU Points
Funniest Hack
Make us laugh! Brownie points for originality!
420 HackBU Points
Best Business Opportunity
420 HackBU Points
Best Beginner Hack
Best first timer hack!
420 HackBU Points
Devpost Achievements
Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:
How to enter
Register at http://hackbu.org/2017s
Judges
George Weinschenk
Binghamton University CS: Height 7'8"
Chris Beard
Bloomberg
Per Stromhaug
Entrepreneurship & Innovations
Sarah Hoch
General Electric
Brittney King
General Electric
Patrick Madden
Binghamton University CS
Alfredo Iturralde
Lockheed Martin
John Weachock
Corning Inc.
Jessica Bracht
Citi
Ajmal Sharif
Bloomberg
Rick Shumaker
Binghamton University ResCons
Tim Hung
ACM
Rob Litzer
Binghamton University
Judging Criteria
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N/A
N/A
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