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Prizes
$3,000 in prizes
MHacks Top 5
(2)
To be revealed at closing ceremony
1st Place Overall - MLH
MLH powered by Dell and Intel Medals
Plus a choice of one of the following:
-Dell Venue tablets
-XBox One
-Apple Watches
-Amazon Fire Stick, Kindle Fire, and Echo
-Muse Brain-sensing Headbands
2nd Place Overall - MLH
MLH powered by Dell and Intel Medals
Plus a choice of one of the following (after 1st chooses):
-Dell Venue tablets
-XBox One
-Apple Watches
-Amazon Fire Stick, Kindle Fire, and Echo
-Muse Brain-sensing Headbands
3rd Place Overall - MLH
MLH powered by Dell and Intel Medals
Plus a choice of one of the following (after 1st and 2nd chooses):
-Dell Venue tablets
-XBox One
-Apple Watches
-Amazon Fire Stick, Kindle Fire, and Echo
-Muse Brain-sensing Headbands
Best Travel Hack by Concur
Awarded for best Travel Hack
HERO4 Session
https://shop.gopro.com/hero4/hero4-session/CHDHS-101.html
Best Hack to Help Developers by GitHub and MLH
Best Hack to Help Developers wins GitHub Mona the Octocat Statues
GitHub <3 developers and we have a passion for tools. Your challenge is to build a tool for developers. Anything that a developer could use qualifies from a new web framework to a custom programming language or even a way for people to become better developers. It's not necessary, but you could use Electron (http://electron.atom.io), make a plugin for Atom (http://atom.io), or even build on top of the world's largest development community using the GitHub API (http://developer.github.com)
Best Use of Intel Edison
Awarded for best use of Intel Edison
Dell Venue 10 Tablets
Best Use of Cloud Services by Linode
Awarded for best use of Cloud Services
Samsung Tablets
Most Creative Use of Insights by Qualtrics
Awarded for most creative use of insights
Choice of Snowboard, Longboard or Mountain Bike
Most Creative Use of Target API
Awarded for most creative use of Target's API
Beats by Dre Headphones (Wireless)
Best Twilio Hack
Awarded for best use of Twilio's API
Technomancer 2.0 Digital Wizard Hoodie
Best Domain.com Domain Name
Wins a Domain.com swag bag with Spark Fun Arduino Red Boards
Best Use of Esri ArcGIS
Awarded for best use of the ArcGIS Platform
Intuos Pro Pen Touch Tablet
Best Use of Capital One API
(2)
Awarded for best use of Capital One's API
$250 Amazon Gift Card
Best Use of Visa API
Awarded for best use of Visa's API
Visa branded Beats headphones and Visa prepaid cards
https://usa.visa.com/pay-with-visa/cards/card-finder/prepaid-finder-page.html
Best Financial Hack sponsored by Blackrock
Awarded for best Financial Hack
Parrot AR.Drone 2.0 Elite Quadricopter - Black
Best Health Hack, from Meridian Health
Awarded for best Health Related Hack
Parrot Jumping Mini-Drone
Best Use of Firebase
Awarded for best use of Firebase
Chromecasts, Moto 360 Sport, Firebase Trophy, $2,600 of Firebase Credit
Best Use of Emergent Technology by Disney
Best use of Emergent Technology
BB-8 Droid and TBD
Best Use of MongoDB
Amazon Gift Card
1517 Hack Grant
(3)
Awarded to a teams that are looking to continue working on their hack after the weekend
Devpost Achievements
Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:
How to enter
Apply online at http://mhacks.org/
Judges

William Cohen
MHacks Sponsorship Team
Judging Criteria
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Technicality: Difficulty
Does the application demonstrate technical competence/knowledge? -
Technicality: Variety of Tech
Did the team use a variety of technologies? -
Technicality: Bugs
Did the project execute cleanly, without errors and bugs? -
Technicality: Extensibility and Functionality
Is the hack extensible? Can more functionality be added to the app by the team members, users, or other developers? -
Creativity: Originality
Is the idea original? Has it never been done before? -
Creativity: Implementation and Development
Is the hack novel in its implementation or development? -
Creativity: User Needs
Does the hack identify and fulfill the user’s need? -
Presentation: Pitch
Were the presenters clear, and did they communicate their idea effectively? -
Design: User Interface
Is the application aesthetically pleasing? -
Design: User Experience
Is the application intuitive to use?
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