Best Overall Hack

Given to the team with the most innovative, functional, and well-designed hack.

Each winning team member will receive a Nintendo Switch Lite.

For Women, By Women

We love seeing women empowering other women through technology! Whether it’s for equality in the workplace, women’s health, or anything else you can think of, this prize category is for women empowering each other. Given to the team with the best hack that empowers women.

Each winning team member will receive an Amazon Firestick.

Best Space Hack

The theme this year is space, and we want to bring out your inner astronaut! Given to the team with the best space-themed hack.

Each winning team member will receive a galaxy light projector.

Best First Time Hack

Is this your first time attending a hackathon or creating a hack? For all those who came here just starting to code, we encourage you to keep building things and learning. This is just the start of a truly rewarding journey.

Each winning team member will receive a year of Leetcode Premium.

* To be eligible for this category, at least half of the team has to be first-time hackers. We encourage all first-time hackers to submit their creations!

Best UI/UX Hack

Given to the team with the hack displaying the best user interface and offering an optimal user experience.

Each winning team member will receive a Wacom tablet.

Funniest Hack

Hackathons aren’t all work and no play. This prize is for the inner class clown in you! Win something silly to take home by making us laugh until we fall! Given to the team with the funniest hack.

Each winning team member will receive a year of Disney+ OR a $50 Amazon Gift Card.

Best Political Hack

Inspired by this election season? Use technology to build solutions to pressing civic problems! Given to the team with the most unique political-themed hack.

Each winning team member will receive a Chestnut Bamboo LapGear Bamboo Lap Desk (this was changed from wireless speakers).

Best Failed Attempt Hack

We want to encourage and motivate all aspiring hackers to submit their creations! Given to the team with the best attempt at a hack that might not have gone as planned.

Each winning team member will receive a Cube Pro.

In-Kind Sponsor Prize

We love our in-kind sponsors! Twilio and echoAR are providing FREE resources to HackHERS participants to use in their projects. Any team that uses Twilio OR echoAR resources is eligible for this award category.

For more information on how to access these resources, visit this link: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1c-u_KoLyjBALPjjLDZEjvKEB6UJn-JSObKQK5H8iBP4/edit

Each winning team member will receive Bluetooth Noise-Cancelling Headphones.

Best Healthcare Hack (Merck) (2)

This award will be given to the best healthcare hack, judged by Merck. Although the category is open, we recommend you use the following resources and guidelines:

COVID-19 Vaccines: Data Integration & Visualizations

Given data on COVID-19 vaccinations and infection rates by country, as well as their demographic and economic data, pick two of the following questions to focus on, and produce visualizations to represent your findings:
- What are the factors that influence vaccine administration (e.g., politics, economy, demography)?
- Which vaccines are used and in which countries?
- Which country is vaccinating a larger percent of its population?
- How does a country’s vaccination rate compare to their infection rate?

For the datasets, more information, and extra resources, visit this link: https://docs.google.com/document/d/11To7Pl7x-NLFXXJqnn84ByT2R_MQm300XbCrP1_va0o/edit?usp=sharing

Each member of our challenge winning team will select one of the following prizes: Super 3D printing pen, Raspberry Pi 4 Model, Victrola Vintage 3-Speed Bluetooth Portable Suitcase Record Player with Built-in Speakers. Each member will also receive a $25 Amazon Gift Card.

Best Financial Hack (Capital One)

This prize will be awarded to the best financial hack, judged by Capital One! This hack prize category is unspecific and any hack within the finance category can be submitted for this prize.

Each winning team member will receive a $200 Amazon gift card.

Steganography Challenge (Lockheed Martin)

Lockheed Martin’s challenge will be a steganography challenge of our famous Blackbird SR-72.

Jsteg is a stego technique that hides the data in the least-significant bit of the jpg image.

Link to image: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1oWXsvfda1pa7ABIaeAWPYLRyK25SQnZr?usp=sharing

You can write your own encoder/decoder or just download an existing open source one: https://github.com/lukechampine/jsteg

This is an individual challenge. The first person to submit the correct answer will receive a Lockheed Martin UV Phone Sterilizer w/ Internal Wireless Charging Pad.

SUBMISSIONS WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED VIA DEVPOST. Please see the #lockheed-martin channel in the Slack for information.