Cutie Hack is a virtual 12-hour, beginner-oriented hackathon hosted by students at the University of California, Riverside. Hackers are challenged with creating a cool project within the timeframe to demo in order to win awesome prizes. Cutie Hack will also be hosting informative workshops, fun games, and industry networking. While this hackathon is created around beginners, we welcome anyone from any high school or college no matter your experience level. Come on out and see what you can make!

Requirements

Please submit the following:

  1. Github Link to your project's code base.
  2. A description of your project, what it does, and if it solves any problem.
  3. A short 1-2 minute video of your project/demo.
  4. Any website url if it is live.

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Prizes

$152,423 in prizes

1st Place - Beats Studio Buds (one per member)

2nd Place - Keychron Keyboard (one per member)

Best UI/UX - OSU Tablet (one per member)

Best Beginner Hack - Anker Portable Battery Charger (one per member)

Student's Choice - Github Beanies (one per member)

Organizer's Pick - Echo Dot (one per member)

Best Theme - Bobamate Boba Bottles (one per member)

Wolfram Award (10)

A year of Wolfram|One Personal Edition plus a one-year subscription to Wolfram|Alpha Pro

Sketch License (3)

Devpost Achievements

Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:

Judges

Paea Lependu

Paea Lependu
UCR Professor

Craig Schroeder

Craig Schroeder
UCR Professor

Fuad Jamour

Fuad Jamour
UCR Professor

Kelly Downey

Kelly Downey
CS Lecturer

Kuan-Chieh Hsu

Kuan-Chieh Hsu
UCR PhD Candidate

Lucca Psaila

Lucca Psaila
Software Engineer Intern @ Rev

Danial Beg

Danial Beg
Previous Citrus Hack Director

Jonathan Trinh

Jonathan Trinh
Previous Citrus Hack Director

Nate Melwani

Nate Melwani
Cyber@UCR Vice President

Kanin Liang

Kanin Liang
Cyber@UCR Outreach Director

Kiela Braden

Kiela Braden
Design@UCR Director

Elaine Lin

Elaine Lin
Design@UCR Communications Director

Michael O'Dea

Michael O'Dea
IEEE@UCR President

Ian Oh

Ian Oh
IEEE@UCR Secretary

Roy Feng

Roy Feng
ACM President

Audrey Kim

Jed

Judging Criteria

  • Complexity
    How complex is your project in terms of functionality and/or design?
  • "Wow" Factor
    Is the concept of the project something that you've never seen before? Is the execution of the project done in a unique fashion?
  • Polish
    Does the project look like it's ready for deployment? Is the project robust from the backend to the end-user?
  • Effort
    Does the team's pitch exude passion for the idea they worked on all day? Did they experiment with unfamiliar technologies?

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