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Saturday
Time (CDT) (GMT-5) Event Location
9:00 am - 10:00 am Check-in and socialize 9th floor
10:00 am - 11:00 am Breakfast begins 9th floor
11:00 am - 12:00 pm Opening Ceremony Room 924
12:00 pm - 12:30 pm Team Formation Room 924
12:30 pm Hacking begins!  
1:30 pm - 2:00 pm MLH Mini Event Room 924
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm Lunch begins 9th floor
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm Tech Talk [Northern Trust] Room 924
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm Dinner begins 9th floor
8:00 pm - 8:30 pm Snyk Mini-Event Room 924
9:00 pm Cup Stacking Room 924
 
Sunday
Time (CDT) (GMT-5) Event Location
12:00 am Snacks begin 9th floor
1:00 am Paper Plane Tournament Room 924
11:00 am Hacking Ends  
11:00 am - 12:00 pm Brunch begins 9th floor
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm Project Expo 2nd floor
3:00 pm Closing Ceremony Room 924

Hackathon Sponsors

Prizes

$2,500 in prizes
Creative & User Experience - Northern Trust
1 winner

Computer monitors - Sceptre 24" Professional Thin 75Hz 1080p LED Monitor
(1 per winning team member)

Brighter Financial Future - Discover
1 winner

DEERC Quadcopter Drone
(1 per winning team member)

Adversary PumpkinReaper - Crowdstrike
1 winner

Gift cards - $300 in gift cards of your choice will be split amongst the winning team.

Virtual Marketplace Candy Exchange - Geneva Trading
1 winner

Gift cards - $300 in gift cards of your choice will be split amongst the winning team.

Most Unique Add-on - Geneva Trading
1 winner

Fitbits
(1 per winning team member)

Spookiest Hack - Computer Science Society
1 winner

Gift cards - $200 in gift cards of your choice will be split amongst the winning team.

Best Overall - Computer Science Society
1 winner

(MLH) Best Use of Auth0
1 winner

Prize: Exclusive Auth0 Swag made for MLH
Auth0 wants your applications to be secure! Use any of the Auth0 APIs for a chance to win some exclusive swag, including a 12oz tumbler, Rubik's Cube, and sticker! Why spend hours building features like social sign-in, Multi-Factor Authentication, and passwordless log-in when you can enable them through Auth0 straight out of the box? Save some time on your hack and set yourself up for a big win. It doesn't take much to get started. Auth0 is free to try, no credit card required, with up to 7,000 free active users and unlimited log-ins. Make your new account today!

(MLH) Best Domain Name from Domain.com
1 winner

Prize: Domain.com Branded Backpack

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) Most Creative Use of GitHub
1 winner

Prize: GitHub Octocat Puzzle & Sticker bundle

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!

(MLH) Best Use of DeSo
Cryptocurrency logo
1 winner

Prize: $100 worth of $DESO coin, an exclusive DeSo Tumbler, and a YubiKey!

DeSo is the official Web3 sponsor of the MLH Hackathon League and the first Layer 1 blockchain custom-built for decentralized social media applications. While a blockchain like Avalanche costs $0.50+ to store just a 200-character post, the DeSo blockchain is built with custom indexing and storage optimizations which make it 10,000X cheaper to store social content on-chain! In order to qualify for the contest, build a hack that uses the DeSo API. While social media apps are a great fit for DeSo, you can also build financial apps, marketplaces, and more on the DeSo blockchain. To get started, sign up for a DiamondApp account, make a post tagging @deso with both your event hashtag & #MLH. The DeSo team will then send you even more $DESO coin to build your hackathon project! On top of that, the team with the Best Use of DeSo gets $100 worth of $DESO coin, an exclusive DeSo branded tumbler, and a YubiKey Security Key.

Best Use of Microsoft Cloud for Your Community
1 winner

Prize: LinkedIn Premium 12-Month subscription and Xbox Ultimate 3-Month Game Pass

Bring your idea to life using the Microsoft Cloud - automatically build and deploy a full stack web app from a code repository, create and train a Machine Learning model, develop business applications with little to no code using Power Platform, and more! View our recommended popular solutions in the Education Hub at https://aka.ms/startedu.

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Build your hackathon project with the Microsoft Cloud that tackles a social impact issue of your choice, and have a chance to win a LinkedIn Premium 12-Month subscription and an XBox Ultimate 3-Month Game Pass.

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Judges

Eric Johnson

Eric Johnson
Design Director, Northern Trust

Jeff Deibel

Jeff Deibel
Design Director, Northern Trust

Eric Gibson

Eric Gibson
Systems Support Lead, Geneva Trading

Chao Wang

Chao Wang
Lead Data Engineer, Geneva Trading

Michael Saia

Michael Saia
DevOps Manager, Geneva Trading

Jess Bender

Jess Bender
Senior Associate Application Engineer, Discover

Bryan Patterson

Bryan Patterson
Senior Network Engineer, CrowdStrike

Joseph Pugh

Joseph Pugh
Sr. Engineer II, CrowdStrike

Ron Bolger

Ron Bolger
Threat Detection Engineer III, CrowdStrike

Judging Criteria

  • TBD

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