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.
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Must be in a team with at least 3 people and at most 4 people.
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Use Discord (invite link privately sent) to communicate with your teammates for the duration of the Hackathon.
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Hackers are not allowed to use projects they have already worked on previously to the event.
Projects:
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Hackers can create any type of project, as long as it is relevant to the hackathon’s theme: Health and Wellness.
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"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.
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Hackers can compete for categories listed on our DevPost.
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Projects can be geared toward web development, mobile development, and data science.
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Hackers should also be able to answer the question: “How does my project relate to the theme?”
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Projects do not have to be deployed. If the project is not deployed, please provide instructions on how to run it locally.
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Example project ideas:
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Food / nutrition apps
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Travel booking app for wellness tourism
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Fitness app
- Audio meditation app
- Data analysis of nutrition and food
- App that uses machine learning to provide customized inspirational quotations / stories
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Time:
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Hackers have from August 22nd, 2022 to August 26th, 2022 at 7 pm PM EDT to work on and submit their projects.
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Hackers are free to continue working on their projects after the hackathon ends.
Submission:
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Teams must submit their projects on our DevPost by August 26th, 2022, 7 PM EDT for them to be judged.
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Please submit a link to the project’s GitHub repository and/or deployed website.
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Please provide a slide deck (PowerPoint/Canva, etc.) or a video that showcases your project
Prize Categories:
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Best Front End: Overall best front end development.
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Best Back End: Overall best back end development.
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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.
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
LinkedIn
Tongtong Qi
Linkedin
Vikas Shivpuriya
LinkedIn
Divya Nekkanti
Affirm

Nicholas Wu
Affirm

Saarth Shah
LinkedIn

TAHSIN KALAM
Accenture
Jessica Jumelles
Accenture

Lucy Test
ABC
Judging Criteria
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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
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Nominate for Best Front End
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Nominate for Best Back End
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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.
Questions? Email the hackathon manager
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