On September 1-3, 2023, we're going in person at the Accelerator Centre! Join us for an amazing weekend of fun, innovation, and free food. At RythmHacks, you'll work in teams of four or less to create a website, app, game, robot, or anything you can imagine. You'll have 36 hours to create your project, pitch it to judges, and compete for prizes!

A place for everyone

Whether you're a seasoned developer or it's your first time creating a project, you're welcome at RythmHacks. We've got workshops, mini-events, and other resources planned through the weekend to help you in your project creation. Developers, designers, hardware wizards, and tech enthusiasts of all sorts have a place here at RythmHacks.

We know from first-hand experience that finding tech opportunities can be one of the hardest things to do in high school. That's why we've made RythmHacks into a high-school only hackathon, tailored to beginners. We hope that you'll learn a lot and that attending RythmHacks will help you launch your career.

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Prizes

$4,532 in prizes
1st Place
1 winner

Each member of the winning team receives:
- HyperX Cloud II Over-Ear Gaming Headset - Red/Black
- One year of Wolfram|One Personal Edition plus a one-year subscription to Wolfram|Alpha Pro

2nd Place
1 winner

Each member of the winning team receives:
- One GAR Micro Kit for arduino

3rd Place
1 winner

Each member of the winning team receives:
- One Soldering Iron Kit

Best Beginner Hack
1 winner

Teams that consist of at least 50% beginners (first hackathon attended) are eligible for this prize.
Each member of the winning team receives:
$25 Best Buy gift card

Best Use of Google Cloud
1 winner

Build your hackathon project with a suite of secure storage, powerful compute, and integrated data analytics products provided by Google Cloud. See full list of products here: g.co/cloud. Winners will receive a Google Cloud branded backpack!

Be sure to redeem your Google Cloud Credits as soon as possible through the Google Cloud Credit Form. Use the promo code in your pre-event email to access the form!

Best Use of MongoDB Atlas
1 winner

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! Build a hack using MongoDB Atlas for a chance to win a M5GO IoT Starter Kit for you and each member of your team.

Most Creative Use of GitHub
1 winner

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!

Best Domain Name from GoDaddy Registry
1 winner

GoDaddy Registry is giving you everything you need to be the best hacker no matter where you are. Register your domain name with GoDaddy Registry for a chance to win a Hack from Home Kit! Each Kit contains wireless earbuds, blue light glasses, selfie ring light and a pouch for easy transport.

Best Accessibility Hack sponsored by Fidelity
1 winner

At Fidelity, accessibility is viewed as a major key to the success of their business, which is why they are challenging you to come up with innovative ways to make tech more accessible! We want you to use your hacking skills to find and build solutions that put opportunities and resources within reach for all communities. The team with the best accessibility hack will win a Fidelity branded wireless charger for each team member!

Best Use of Streamlit
1 winner

Want to take your Python skills to the next level? Streamlit is an open-source Python library that makes it easy to share and build custom web apps for machine learning, data science, and more. Instead of writing Python scripts without a UI, you can create a beautiful web app, complete with widgets and data visualizations, and deploy it for free to the Streamlit Community Cloud. You can even build a fully functional LLM-powered app with just 25 lines of code! Hack with Streamlit this weekend for your chance to win a Pimoroni PicoSystem programmable gaming system for you and each member of your team.

Best Use of Circle
1 winner

Building an application that accepts nearly instantaneous and low-cost global payments just became a reality! Circle is a payments infrastructure company that leverages public blockchains to frictionlessly move dollars across the internet with it's digital currency USDC. If you're building a project that services users from all over the world and want to do so at the speed of the internet, then Circle has you covered. Circle’s APIs give you the tools to facilitate payments from digital storefronts to payroll transactions to remittances and other novel use cases that don't bottleneck your money the way traditional payment services can. Sign up for a developer account and start using their JavaScript, Java or Python SDKs for a chance to win a Circle Branded Hardware Wallet for you and each of your teammates!

Devpost Achievements

Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:

Judges

Shreyasi Chauhan

Shreyasi Chauhan
Coach @ MLH

Vishnu Sharma

Vishnu Sharma
Vice President @ Flowboat

Charles Martinez

Charles Martinez
President @ Flowboat

Luke Zhang

Luke Zhang
Student @ University of Waterloo

Kellen Sun

Kellen Sun
Student @ University of Waterloo

Kevin Gao

Kevin Gao
Student @ University of Waterloo

Moulik Budhiraja

Moulik Budhiraja
Student @ University of Guelph

Judging Criteria

  • Technical Difficulty
    How hard it was to make and the complexity of the skills used
  • WOW Factor
    Is the project flashy/impressive, does it stand out?
  • Creativity
    Is the product creative and doesn’t resemble or built off of another idea
  • Practicality
    Is the product practical (or if it’s a game, is it fun)?

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