1st Place Prize

iPad, from the BoilerMake Team
$250 of Digital Ocean Credits from Digital Ocean
One Year of Wolfram|One Personal Edition plus a one-year subscription to Wolfram|Alpha Pro.

2nd Place Prize

Nintendo Switch, from the BoilerMake Team
$125 of Digital Ocean Credits from Digital Ocean
One Year of Wolfram|One Personal Edition plus a one-year subscription to Wolfram|Alpha Pro.

3rd Place Prize

Sony Headphones, from the BoilerMake Team
$100 of Digital Ocean Credits from Digital Ocean
One Year of Wolfram|One Personal Edition plus a one-year subscription to Wolfram|Alpha Pro.

Best Innovative Data Hack

Prize: Portable JBL Speakers from Bloomberg

Criteria:
Solve real-world problems using innovative ways.
Use data in the hack.

Best Use of CockroachDB Serverless

Prize: iPad Minis from CockroachDB

We are looking for projects with the “Best use of CockroachDB Serverless”. Teams submitting projects using CockroachDB Serverless are also eligible to receive a t-shirt (while supplies last).

Best Use of DagsHub 1st Prize

Prize: Raspberry Pi, DagsHub pro tier for one year, and a full DagsHub swag package from DagsHub

Challenge rules/criteria: https://dagshub.notion.site/DagsHub-Challenge-21b2136712544b0d8b53f3fc722b8ff0
To be eligible to enter the challenge, participants must host their project on DagsHub, version their code with Git, their data and models with DVC, and track their experiments with MLflow. This is the only requirement for entry into the challenge.

Logistics requirements:
- Make sure to sign up for DagsHub from https://bit.ly/3QLh386.
- Fill out this form: https://forms.gle/8Bj2YzWV8jU2ZYXJA so we will add you as a team under purdue-boilermake (https://dagshub.com/purdue-boilermake) organization.

Best Use of DagsHub 2nd Prize

Prize: XE200 Sony speakers, DagsHub pro tier for one year, and a full DagsHub swag package from DagsHub

Challenge rules/criteria: https://dagshub.notion.site/DagsHub-Challenge-21b2136712544b0d8b53f3fc722b8ff0
To be eligible to enter the challenge, participants must host their project on DagsHub, version their code with Git, their data and models with DVC, and track their experiments with MLflow. This is the only requirement for entry into the challenge.

Logistics requirements:
- Make sure to sign up for DagsHub from https://bit.ly/3QLh386.
- Fill out this form: https://forms.gle/8Bj2YzWV8jU2ZYXJA so we will add you as a team under purdue-boilermake (https://dagshub.com/purdue-boilermake) organization.

Best Use of DagsHub 3rd Prize

Prize: DagsHub pro tier for one year, and a full DagsHub swag package from DagsHub

Challenge rules/criteria: https://dagshub.notion.site/DagsHub-Challenge-21b2136712544b0d8b53f3fc722b8ff0
To be eligible to enter the challenge, participants must host their project on DagsHub, version their code with Git, their data and models with DVC, and track their experiments with MLflow. This is the only requirement for entry into the challenge.

Logistics requirements:
- Make sure to sign up for DagsHub from https://bit.ly/3QLh386.
- Fill out this form: https://forms.gle/8Bj2YzWV8jU2ZYXJA so we will add you as a team under purdue-boilermake (https://dagshub.com/purdue-boilermake) organization.

Best Water, Food, Health, or Climate Hack

Prize: $100 for each member of the winning team (up to $400 total) from Ecolab. The gift card will be processed through a vendor called ‘Tango’ which allows recipients to redeem from one of over 50+ vendors. A few of the options for redemption include: Amazon, Target, Nike, Uber Eats, and Starbucks.

Hack: A Hack that improves the world in one of these areas: water, food, health or
climate.
- Water –taking a circular approach to the world’s most precious resource, helping customers manage water through conservation, recycling, and reuse.
- Food –helping keep food safe all along the supply chain, preventing foodborne illnesses, and ensuring safe, high-quality food for people around the world.
- Health –protecting people and businesses from the risk of exposure to germs, keeping people healthy everywhere they eat, stay, play, shop, and heal.
- Climate –tackling climate change by increasing energy efficiency and reducing greenhouse gas emissions – for customers and in business operations.

Best Farming Simulator

Prize: John Deere backpacks from John Deere

Today’s farmers have access to unprecedented amounts of data, enabling smarter decision-making in the field. Hundreds of data points collected every second over each operation can be analyzed to optimize yield, precisely apply nutrients, and save time and resources each season. Our challenge is to build an agricultural simulation game.

Hacks could include the four basic agricultural operations (tillage, seeding, application, and harvest) and may take things like weather, soil, or other factors that could impact a farmer’s yield into account.

Lemonade Stand is an example of a classic game that captures the spirit of this challenge.

Best Use of Google Cloud (2)

Prizes may include and are dependent upon shipping needs:
Google Cloud-branded backpack
Speciality Google Cloud swag box
Mentor meeting and post-event access to the Google Cloud Skills Boost learning platform from Google Cloud

Challenge site page: https://goo.gle/category-challenge-2023

Use any Google Cloud product, including Firebase, and submit. The category is for all skill levels and use levels.

Best National Security Project

Prize: Bose Mini Soundlink 2 Speaker or Jabre Wireless Headphones from Sandia National Laboratories

The United States needs its next generation of engineers to push technological boundaries to solve national and global threats to peace and freedom. Just as Sandia National Laboratories delivers essential science and technology research to resolve the nation's most pressing security issues, we present this challenge category for a dedicated team of hackers to develop an innovative project which solves a national or global security threat. The challenge will be judged by the following criteria: design, security of implementation, ease of use, uniqueness, and threat severity.

For an example problem/solution set see below: The proliferation of personally identifiable information (birthdays, interests/hobbies, family connections, occupation/title, etc.) across social media and the wider internet has enabled many threat actors to conduct phishing attacks and impersonate unsuspecting individuals. Develop an application, methodology, or tool to aid in the detection of possible phishing attempts and alert users to open-source intelligence that could be used to impersonate them.

MLH: Most Creative Use of Twilio

Prize: GameGo Console and a Swag Box including socks, stickers, and scrunchies.

Twilio allows you to incorporate mobile messaging, phone calls and a ton of other awesome communication features right into your hackathon project using a web service API. Are you building an e-commerce website and want to send text notifications or email confirmations once an order is completed? Or maybe you'd like to verify users based on their mobile numbers? Twilio makes all this possible and more. Build a hack that simplifies your life using any Twilio API for a chance to win some awesome prizes! Get started with $50 in free credit!

MLH: Best Use of Velo by Wix

Prize: Wacom Drawing Tablet

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 on 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.

MLH: Best Use of NLP With Cohere

Prize: Arduino starter kit

Cohere is a Natural Language Processing platform that you can use directly through your browser!
Get started with the free developer tier! Go to https://hackp.ac/Cohere
Step by step guide available at https://hackp.ac/cohere-docs

Cohere makes Natural Language Processing easy to do with their ready to use online platform. Simply sign-up for the developer free tier, no credit card required, and start training your very own language model directly on the web! You and your teammates can each win an Arduino Starter Kit by using Cohere in your next hack. Wondering what to build? Cohere is great for text and content generation, text-based search, predictive text and so much more. Check out our software & learn pages for more details!

MLH: Best Domain Name Using Domain.com

Prize: Domain.com backpack

Domain.com is only offering .tech domain names.
A free .tech domain for one year with Domain Privacy

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!

MLH: Best Hardware Hack Using Digi-Key

Grove Beginner Kit for Arduino is one of the best Arduino Beginner Kit for beginners. It includes one Arduino compatible Board and 10 additional Arduino sensors and all in one-piece of PCB design.

New to hardware? No problem. We've put together some great resources for you to start hacking with the Grove Beginner Kit!