À propos de la compétiton/About the competition

Pyramide de Maslow : motivez à partir des besoins

Le thème de ce hackathon est centrée sur la pyramide de Maslow. Celle-ci décrit la hiérarchie des besoins de l'humain. Il y 5 étages à cette pyramide, chaucn correspondant à 1 défi pour ce hackathon.

The theme of this hackathon is centered around Maslow's pyramid. This pyramid describes the hierarchy of human needs. It has 5 stages, each representing a challenge for this hackathon.

Défis reliés au thème/Theme's challenges

Comme décrit précédemment, les défis pour ce hackathon représentent les 5 étages de la pyramide. Il est important de ne prendre qu'un seul de ces défis.

As previously described, the challenges of this hackathon represent the 5 stages of the pyramid. It is important to only take one of these challenges.

Besoins pysiologiques/Physiological Needs

  • Manger/Eat

  • Boire/Drink

  • Respirer/Breath

  • Dormir/Sleep

  • Santé/Health

Besoins de sécurité/Security Needs

  • Emploi stable/Stable employment

  • Maison, chambre (toît, lieu sécure)/House, room (a roof, a secured space)

  • Assurances/Insurances

  • Ressources/Resources

  • Famille/Family

Besoins d'appartenance/Belonging Needs

  • Amour/Love

  • Amitié/Friendship

  • Famille/Family

  • Interaction social/Social interaction

  • Appartenance à un groupe ou une communauté/Belonging to a group or community

  • Affection

Besoins d'estime/Esteem Needs

  • Reconnaissance

  • Appréciation/Appreciation

  • Estime de soi/Self-esteem

  • Confiance/Confidence

  • Respect des autres et par les autres/Respect of and by others

Besoins de d'accompilssement/Accompishment Needs

  • S’épanouir/Thrive

  • Exprimer son potentiel/Express one's potential

  • Passions

  • Créativité/Creativity

  • Réaliser ses désirs/Realising one's desires

Défis MLH/MLH Challenges

Best Domain Name from Domain.com
Register a .Tech domain name using Domain.com during the weekend for your chance to win a Domain.com branded backpack for you and each member of your team! Each team may submit one entry per person on the team. The more creative the domain the better!

 

Most Creative Use of GitHub
GitHub is one of the best ways to collaborate, push code, get feedback, and show the world what you’ve built during a hackathon. To take it a step further, GitHub is now offering you access to industry tools, events & learning resources through something called GitHub Global Campus. Win this weekend’s Most Creative Use of GitHub prize category, first by signing up for GitHub Global Campus and second by using a GitHub repository to host your hackathon project’s code! Make sure your use of GitHub stands out with a detailed ReadMe page, meaningful pull requests and collaboration history, and even a GitHub pages deployment!

Winners will receive a GitHub Octocat Puzzle & Sticker bundle.

 

Most Creative Use of Twilio Twilio allows you to incorporate mobile messaging, phone calls and a ton of other awesome communication features right into your hackathon project using a web service API. Are you building an e-commerce website and want to send text notifications or email confirmations once an order is completed? Or maybe you'd like to verify users based on their mobile numbers? Twilio makes all this possible and more. Build a hack that simplifies your life using any Twilio API for a chance to win some awesome prizes! Get started with $50 in free credit!  

 

Winners will receive a Twilio Swag Box & GameGo Console.     Best Use of NLP with Cohere Cohere makes Natural Language Processing easy to do with their ready to use online platform. Simply sign-up for the developer free tier, no credit card required, and start training your very own language model directly on the web! You and your teammates can each win an Arduino Starter Kit by using Cohere in your next hack. Wondering what to build? Cohere is great for text and content generation, text-based search, predictive text and so much more. Check out our software & learn pages for more details!   Best Accessibility Hack sponsored by Fidelity At Fidelity, accessibility is viewed as a major key to the success of their business, which is why they are challenging you to come up with innovative ways to make tech more accessible! We want you to use your hacking skills to find and build solutions that put opportunities and resources within reach to all communities. The team with the best accessibility hack will win a Fidelity branded wireless charger for each team member!   

Défis des commanditaires/Sponsor's challenges

DRW - Meilleure visualisation des donées/Best Data Visualisation
Impressionnez les juges de DRW avec la meilleure visualisation de données! Idéalement, la visualisation parfaite:     Impress the DRW judges with the best data visualisation. Idealy, the perfect visualisation:
  • Permet de rapidement tirer une conclusion/Allows to rapidly make a conclusion
  • Utilise du codage visuel pour communiquer plusieurs variables/Uses visual coding to communicate multiple variable
  • Est interactive/Is interactive
  • Permet d'identifier les valeurs aberrantes/Allows to identify aberrant values
   

Requirements

Quoi créer/What to Build

Vous devez créer un projet en lien avec le thème. Votre projet doit correspondre avec un des 5 défis.

You must build a project related to the theme. Your project must corespond to one of the 5 challenges.

What to Submit

Vous devez remettre votre de code dans un répertoire Git publique.

You must submit your code in a Git Repository.

Hackathon Sponsors

Prizes

$CAD 7,750 in prizes
Meilleur "hack" de débutant/Best Beginner Hack
1 winner

Coup de coeur #1/Judges choice #1
1 winner

Coup de coeur #2/Judges choice #2
1 winner

Coup de coeur #3/Judges choice #3
1 winner

Gagnant - Défi #1/Winner - Challenge #1
1 winner

Gagnant - Défi #2/Winner - Challenge #2
1 winner

Gagnant - Défi #3/Winner - Challenge #3
1 winner

Gagnant - Défi #4/Winner - Challenge #4
1 winner

Gagnant - Défi #5/Winner - Challenge #5
1 winner

Most Creative Use of Twilio
1 winner

Twilio allows you to incorporate mobile messaging, phone calls and a ton of other awesome communication features right into your hackathon project using a web service API. Are you building an e-commerce website and want to send text notifications or email confirmations once an order is completed? Or maybe you'd like to verify users based on their mobile numbers? Twilio makes all this possible and more. Build a hack that simplifies your life using any Twilio API!

Winners will receive a Twilio Swag Box & GameGo Console.

Best Domain Name from Domain.com
1 winner

Register a .Tech domain name using Domain.com during the weekend for your chance to win a Domain.com branded backpack for you and each member of your team! Each team may submit one entry per person on the team. The more creative the domain the better!

Most Creative Use of GitHub
1 winner

GitHub is one of the best ways to collaborate, push code, get feedback, and show the world what you’ve built during a hackathon. To take it a step further, GitHub is now offering you access to industry tools, events & learning resources through something called GitHub Global Campus. Win this weekend’s Best Use of GitHub prize category, first by signing up for GitHub Global Campus and second by using a GitHub repository to host your hackathon project’s code! Make sure your use of GitHub stands out with a detailed ReadMe page, meaningful pull requests and collaboration history, and even a GitHub pages deployment!

Winners will receive a GitHub Octocat Puzzle & Sticker bundle.

Best Use of NLP by Cohere
1 winner

Cohere makes Natural Language Processing easy to do with their ready to use online platform. Simply sign-up, claim your free $75 credit, no credit card required, and start training your very own language model directly on the web! You and your teammates can each win a Raspberry Pi 4 Starter Kit by using Cohere in your next hack. Wondering what to build? Cohere is great for text and content generation, text-based search, predictive text and so much more. Check out our software & learn pages for more details!

Winners will receive an Arduino Starter Kit.

Best Accessibility Hack sponsored by Fidelity
1 winner

At Fidelity, accessibility is viewed as a major key to the success of their business, which is why they are challenging you to come up with innovative ways to make tech more accessible! We want you to use your hacking skills to find and build solutions that put opportunities and resources within reach to all communities. The team with the best accessibility hack will win a Fidelity branded wireless charger for each team member!

Winners will receive a Fidelity Branded Wireless Charger.

Devpost Achievements

Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:

Judges

PolyHx

PolyHx

Major League Hacking

Major League Hacking

Commanditaires/Sponsors

Commanditaires/Sponsors

Judging Criteria

  • Prototype / Working Demo (30%)
    (FR) - Le prototype est-il fonctionnel?-Les fonctionnalités importantes sont-elles mises de l’avant?-Le prototype résout-il la problématique? (EN)-Is the prototype functional?-Are the important features put forward?-Is the prototype solving the problem?
  • Technologie / Technology (30%)
    (FR) - Les technologies utilisées sont-elles propices à la résolution de la problématique?-La réalisation comporte-t-elle un défi technique? (EN)- Are the technologies used conducive to solving the problem? -Does the project present a technical challenge?
  • Respect de la catégorie/ Respect of the category (20%)
    (FR) - La problématique résolue est-elle en lien avec la catégorie choisie? (EN)- Is the problem solved related to the chosen category?
  • Presentation & Design (20%)
    (FR) - La présentation est-elle fluide ? L'expérience utilisateur (UX) est-elle optimale? (EN) - Is the demo fluid ? - Is the User Experience (UX) optimal?

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