Show your love for hacking on Valentine's Day weekend at the University of Pennsylvania. 48 hours, $30,000 in prizes, and 1,200 of the best hackers from around the world. After the Friday evening kickoff, all teams are allowed to begin working on their apps. Once your app is complete, we ask that you make a submission to ChallengePost to let everyone (most importantly your judges) know about your hack. You can submit your app, and an accompanying video if you'd like to, using the Submissions tab above (which will appear after you hit the Register button). All submissions must be in by 9:30 AM Sunday morning.
Eligibility
If you applied to PennApps, recieved an offer to attend and went on to confirm that you will, you are eligible to attend PennApps. If you attended and hacked at PennApps, then you are eligible to make a submission. For Penn students, you are eligible if you signed up on this form and then hacked at PennApps.
Requirements
Make your product, submit your hack to ChallengePost and attend the product fair to show off what you built.
Prizes
$29,000 in prizes
Grand Prize
The Grand Prize also includes Pebble Steels, Philips Hue Starter Kits, Leap Motion Controllers.
Second Place
Third Place
Blend Prize
Best Photo Blended - $100 + 100 Snaps
Bloomberg API Prize
Parrot Drones
Dropbox - 'It just works' Prize
100 GB of Dropbox space and a Pebble.
Dwolla API Prize
Raspberry Pi Starter Kits
Facebook/Parse/Instagram API Prize
All expenses paid trip to California (Facebook HQ) to compete against other winning teams from Facebook's worldwide Hackathons at the FB Hackathon Finals.
Google Prize
(2)
Best use of any Google service. Nexus 7's and Chromecasts for top 2 teams (up to 4 members per team).
Indiegogo Prize
(3)
To compete for the Indiegogo prizes at PennApps, create an Indiegogo campaign for your PennApps project. A panel of Indiegogo staff members will be judging your campaign on creativity, originality, and wow factor. We will take into account how you are using our platform to build a business. Submit your campaign URL at http://bit.ly/1ox8NWx.
1st place - iPad Mini Retina + case.
2nd place - Kindle Fire HDX 8.9 + case.
3rd place - Kindle Paperwhite + charger.
Intel XDK Prize
Best use of XDK, Galaxy Tab 3 for each member (up to team of 4).
Leap Motion Prize
Leap Motion HP SE 17" embedded laptop, interview with Leap Axlr8r, engineering mentorship; if continue to build - featuring in Airspace App Store, marketing materials, early access to next gen tracking and Android SDK
Mashery API Prize
Best app built using the Mashery API Network - $200 Amazon Gift Card + "Evolution of Video Game Controllers" Posters for each team member.
MongoDB Prize
Best use of MongoDB - $250.00 + MongoDB swag
Namecheap Prize
$250 Namecheap Credit to the most "brandable" domain registered during the hackathon
Nexmo API Prize
(2)
Best use of Nexmo's API - ChromeBook Touch
Best use of Nexmo's API in a productivity app - Pebble Watch
Octopart Prize
Best Hardware Hack - $250 in hardware from Octopart.
Pebble Prize
Best Wearable Hack - Pebble steels
Philips Hue Prize
(3)
Several hue starter kits for the most creative and innovative use of the Philips hue connected lights
Rdio API Prize
Best use of Rdio API - 2 years of Rdio Unlimited to each member.
SendGrid API Prize
Best use of the SendGrid API - 4 Oculus Rifts
DigitalOcean - Best use of DigitalOcean
(3)
1st - $4k DO credit + ipad mini retina
2nd - $2k DO credit
3rd - $1k DO credit
GameChanger - Best Sports App
4 Fitbits
Devpost Achievements
Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:
How to enter
- Make your app (any platform is accepted).
- Submit your app to ChallengePost by 10 AM Sunday.
- Attend the product fair and show off your hack.
- Wait for judgement announcements and final demos.
Judges
Josh Kopelman
Partner, First Round Capital
David Pakman
Partner, Venrock
Ryan Bubinski
Co-Founder, Codecademy
Bob Moore
CEO, RJ Metrics
Bert Navarrete
GM and Managing Partner, Tiger Labs
Chris Wink
Co-Founder and Editor, Technical.ly
Mike Maher
Co-Founder, Benjamin's Desk
Judging Criteria
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Originality
Is the hack more than just another generic social/mobile/local app? Does it do something entirely novel, or at least take a fresh approach to an old problem? -
Technical Difficulty
Is the hack technically interesting or difficult? Is it just some lipstick on an API, or were there real technical challenges to surmount? -
Polish
Is the hack usable in its current state? Is the user experience smooth? Does everything appear to work? Is it well designed? -
Usefulness
Is the hack practical? Is it something people would actually use? Does it fulfill a real need people have?
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