Hack@Brown 2024

Best Overall Hack

Awarded to the best overall project submitted to the hackathon

Prize: Apple Watch SE | Contrary Capital Founder's Kit + meeting with their investment team | 1-year NordVPN, NordPass and Incogni subscription

Best Spacey Hack

Awarded to the best space-centric project

Prize: JBL Flip 5 Speaker | Contrary Capital Founder's Kit + meeting with their investment team

Best Design Hack

Awarded to the best no-code project prototyped in Figma or another design software

Prize: Canon Ivy 2 Mini Photo Printer + Sheets | Contrary Capital Founder's Kit + meeting with their investment team

Best Hardware Hack

Awarded to the best hardware-centric project

Prize: HOTO Precision Electric Screwdriver Set | Contrary Capital Founder's Kit + meeting with their investment team

Best First-Time Hack

Awarded to the best project where at least 2/3 of team members are attending their first hackathon

Prize: Philips 22" Monitor | Contrary Capital Founder's Kit + meeting with their investment team

Best Developer Tool sponsored by Warp

Build a hack that focuses on improving the developer experience in some meaningful way - this could be tackling any part of the development lifecycle (creating, modifying or testing software)! You do not need to use Warp (but we'd love for you to try it, if on Mac - warp.dev).

Prize: Keychron keyboards

Best Use of MongoDB Atlas

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!

Prize: M5GO IoT Starter Kit

Best DEI Hack sponsored by Fidelity

At Fidelity, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion are viewed as major keys to the success of their business, which is why they are challenging you to come up with innovative ways to create forward-thinking financial tech that promotes equality for all people! We want you to use your hacking skills to find and build solutions that put financial opportunities and resources within reach for all communities, creating accessible, sustainable, and/or inclusive solutions.

Prize: Fidelity Branded Wireless Charger

Best Use of Starknet

Starknet is redefining the very notion of Web3 by tackling one of the most intimidating technical challenges in the industry - scaling a blockchain while maintaining its security and decentralization. Starknet was the first general purpose ZK-Rollup service on Ethereum in Feb. 2022, and has proved its potential to be a market leader. Essentially, it increases the processing speed, while reducing the cost of operating on the Ethereum blockchain. Go to our Devpost to learn more.

Prize: Starknet Care Package for Coders

Best Use of AI in Education by Schmidt Futures

Artificial Intelligence (AI) models, such as large language models (LLMs), are transforming how we interact with computers. During this weekend's hackathon, we want you to apply AI towards improving education to produce tools that support the quality, accessibility, and equitability of learning in today's classrooms. You can use AI to address any challenge teachers and students face, such as curriculum planning, question selection, teacher training, content generation, personalized feedback, automated grading and more. For this challenge, we encourage you to draw on your own educational experiences and propose technical solutions to problems you've regularly encountered as students — after all, you are the best to know where our education system needs improvement.

Prize: TickTime Pomodoro Timer