Hackathon Theme: Health and Wellness

Participants will come together in a learning-first-minded event, to create tools that will inspire people to engage in health and wellness activities in their day to day lives. 

Requirements

Main Requirements

Build the first iteration of your project that facilitates health and wellness activities.

This is an exercise in learning.The pursuit of knowledge, risk-taking, and code integrity are rewarded, as opposed to merely delivering a clean product. 

  • Must be in a team with at least 3 people and at most 4 people.  

  • Use Discord (invite link privately sent) to communicate with your teammates for the duration of the Hackathon.

  • Hackers are not allowed to use projects they have already worked on previously to the event.

Projects:

  • Hackers can create any type of project, as long as it is relevant to the hackathon’s theme: Health and Wellness.

  • "Health and wellness" refers to any activity that promotes mental and physical well-being. Examples cover a wide range such as yoga, meditation, journaling, and wellness-tourism. Projects should revolve around creating tools that will help and inspire people to monitor/enhance their mental and/or physical health.

  • Hackers can compete for categories listed on our DevPost.

  • Projects can be geared toward web development, mobile development, and data science.

  • Hackers should also be able to answer the question: “How does my project relate to the theme?”

  • Projects do not have to be deployed. If the project is not deployed, please provide instructions on how to run it locally.

  • Example project ideas:

    • Food / nutrition apps

    • Travel booking app for wellness tourism

    • Fitness app 

    • Audio meditation app
    • Data analysis of nutrition and food
    • App that uses machine learning to provide customized inspirational quotations / stories 

 Time:

  • Hackers have from August 22nd, 2022 to August 26th, 2022 at 7 pm PM EDT to work on and submit their projects.

  • Hackers are free to continue working on their projects after the hackathon ends.

 Submission:

  • Teams must submit their projects on our DevPost by August 26th, 2022, 7 PM EDT for them to be judged.

  • Please submit a link to the project’s GitHub repository and/or deployed website.

  • Please provide a slide deck (PowerPoint/Canva, etc.) or a video that showcases your project

Prize Categories:

  • Best Front End: Overall best front end development. 

  • Best Back End:  Overall best back end development. 

  • SWE Best Practices Award:  Code is clean, good use of frameworks, naming conventions, documentation, etc.

  • Data Science Award:  Excellent implementation of a data set or data visualizations as part of their project.

 

Hackathon Sponsors

Prizes

$750 in prizes

Lyft gift cards for each team member

Overall Winner

Best Front End

6 months of LinkedIn Premium for each member of the team whose project has the best front end

Best Back End

6 months of LinkedIn Premium for each member of the team whose project has the best back end

Best Team Collaboration

from Tallan: $25 gift card for each member

Lyft Swag

Swag

Devpost Achievements

Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:

Judges

Robert Vance
Hack.Diversity

Ali Lavine
Rent the Runway

Mushaffar Khan

Mushaffar Khan
LinkedIn

Tongtong Qi
Linkedin

Vikas Shivpuriya
LinkedIn

Divya Nekkanti
Affirm

Nicholas Wu

Nicholas Wu
Affirm

Saarth Shah

Saarth Shah
LinkedIn

TAHSIN KALAM

TAHSIN KALAM
Accenture

Jessica Jumelles
Accenture

Lucy Test

Lucy Test
ABC

Judging Criteria

  • Relevance to Theme
    Project is relevant to the theme of facilitating health and wellness.
  • Innovation of Solution
    Scale and novelty of the technology being used, and/or the architectural approach taken.
  • Quality of Implementation
    Ability for the team to reach a conclusion about the viability of the project.
  • Quality of Presentation
    Ability for the judges to clearly understand (1) what the desired functionality is, and (2) see that the functionality is behaving as expected.
  • Team Collaboration
    Team shows evidence of good collaboration through project presentation, devision of labor, etc.
  • Learning Forward Approach
    Team shows evidence that they challenged themselves to make building this project a learning experience.
  • Nominate for Overall Winner
  • Nominate for Best Front End
  • Nominate for Best Back End
  • Nominate for SWE Best Practices Award
    Code is clean, good use of frameworks, naming conventions, documentation, etc.
  • Nominate for Data Science Award
    Excellent implementation of a data set or data visualizations as part of their project.

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