Learn More: www.basehacks.org
Why are we here?
We are here to encourage high school students to test and compete with the computer science skills they learned throughout the year!
What are our goals?
I. Provide a weekend long crash course in entrepreneurship for coders to learn about monetization, marketing, user experience and more. We want to teach skills that will allow programmers to see their ideas as a reality, rather than a dream.
II. Contribute to promoting engineering education and gender/racial diversity.
III. Advocate entrepreneurship for young, ambitious innovators, hopefully allowing them to create a positive impact on the lives of others
Schedule:
Saturday, June 11 10 am - Checking and Sponsorship Fair
11 am - Keynote Speeches
11:30 am - Workshops Begin
1 pm - Lunch
5:30 pm - Afternoon Snack
8 pm - Workshops End
8 pm - Dinner
10 pm - Doors Close (teams may choose to stay inside, but may not leave the building after this time)
12 am - Midnight Snack 8 am - Breakfast
9 am - Doors Open
10:30 am - Submissions Due
11:00 am - Pitches
1:00 pm - Award Ceremony
2:00 pm - End
Eligibility
All high schoolers and undergrad college students over thirteen are welcome. Please do not register if you are under thirteen or not in high school or an undergrad.
Prizes
$9,842 in prizes
Best Communicated Pitch
The team that clearly and descriptively communicates the problem, their solution, and why their solution is unique will win Grammarly Premium Accounts.
Best With Wolfram Tech
(3)
Best overall projects that utilize Wolfram technology.
This award includes:
2a- one year of Wolfram Development Platform (www.wolfram.com/development-platform), Developer Level. This level includes 10,000 monthly Cloud Credits, 5 GB Cloud Storage, 1000 Wolfram|Alpha API calls monthly, Instant Form development, and customizable URLS
2b- one year of Wolfram Mathematica (https://www.wolfram.com/mathematica/)
2c- one year subscription to our Computational Knowledge Engine, Wolfram|Alpha Pro (www.wolframalpha.com/pro)
Top Teams
(11)
Award of one-year subscriptions to Wolfram|Alpha Pro to everyone in the top ten teams (that didn't win the Best With Wolfram Tech Award award).
Best Food Hack
$20 Gift cards to Cuisinett for each member of the team with the best food themed/centered hack.
Most Entrepreneurial Hack
A drone will be given to each member of the team (max 4) with the most entrepreneurial hack: the hack that seems most marketable and easy to scale, and could eventually become a business.
Best With Beacons
(2)
The teams with the top 2 beacon hacks will win each win a kit containing 4 beacons.
Particle Prize
A Photon Kit for each member of the team with the best Particle hack.
3rd Place
3D Pens for overall third place winners!
2nd Place
Quadcopters for 2nd place overall!
1st Place
1st place overall wins Kindle Tablets!
Gupshup Prize
(3)
The top 3 teams that used GupShup bots will be given this award.
Devpost Achievements
Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:
How to enter
Please register by going to our site www.basehacks.org, or by looking us up on Eventbrite!
Judges
Gustav Larsson
Vice Mayor of Sunnyvale
Beerud Sheth
CEO at GupShup
Justin Brezhnev
CEO at HackerFund
Saravan Rajendran
VP at Cisco
Anna Koh
Head of Elite Almaden
Judging Criteria
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Creativity
Does this project solve a problem that students face in a novel and useful way?
Questions? Email the hackathon manager
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