Hack the North 2022 Finalist (12)

The finalists of Hack the North 2022!

Best Use of CockroachDB Serverless

Each member of the team with the best use of CockroachDB Serverless will receive an iPad Mini (up to 4 members) and the opportunity to discuss and demo their project on a CockroachDB live stream.

Must use the hosted serverless version of CockroachDB

Best use of NLP with Cohere

Cohere helps developers generate or analyze text to do things like write copy, moderate content, classify data, all at a massive scale. No matter your level of experience, Cohere's API makes it easy to build machine learning into your application.

Prizes:

The winning team will receive $2,000 ($500 each) for the best use of NLP with Cohere.

Second place will win a Raspberry Pi 4 Starter Kit for each member on the team.

Best Axelar App: Build a project using Axelar Network (3)

Axelar delivers secure cross-chain communication for Web3. Use Axelar’s General Message Passing (GMP) feature to enable dApps to call smart contracts cross-chain and interact with any asset, any application, on any connected chain with one click.

Winners must complete Know Your Customer (KYC) to receive the prize, paid in crypto USDC.

Prizes:

1st: $2500
2nd: $1500
3rd: $1000

Ethereum's Infinite Garden (3)

The Ethereum community has built a booming digital economy, bold new ways for creators to earn online, and so much more.

ETHGlobal will award the following to the top 3 projects building on Ethereum or Ethereum L2:

1st Place: 1 ETH
2nd Place: 0.5 ETH
3rd Place: 0.25 ETH

Building a crypto Discord game in our JS

Each member of the team with the best use of Altura's API/ SDKs will receive $250 in $ALU (our token)

Most creative use of AssemblyAI’s Speech-to-Text and Audio Intelligence APIs

Use any of AssemblyAI's APIs (e.g., transcription, summarization, sentiment analysis, etc.) and submit your project. This category is for all skill levels and use-levels.

The prize is $100 Amazon gift card for each team member on the winning team

Hype Labs presents: the Big dApp Energy prize

we are looking for the best blockchain/crypto hacks that are a)technically challenging or b)hilarious

everyone on the winning team gets 690.42 DOGE each & an interview for Hype Labs!

if you are participating in general judging, pls make your demo more formal (don't include anything you wouldn't present to your profs)

lfggg :D

Most Innovative Eye Tracking Application

This prize will be awarded to the team that develops the most innovative eye tracking application using AdHawk's eye tracking technology.

Each member on the winning team will get a Meta Quest 2 VR headset (max 4).

Ubisoft Toronto HTN Challenge 2022

Use our custom Ubisoft Hackers NEST API to demonstrate your abilities as a game developer, exploring your idea of the unknow and an Element of Surprise! Please visit our booth and attend our workshop meet our amazing ambassadors and learn more about the API!

Each member of the winning team will be awarded a prize pack worth $200 PLUS a Ubisoft Game of their choice!

Rebuilding the Internet: Most Creative Data Composition (Sonr) (2)

Sonr is looking for developers to create data Schemas, and store data that leverages them. We care about both the quantity and quality of the Schemas, and associated data. We want to see creative uses of application schemas and data storage on Sonr.

The Sonr Network allows for data to be stored in a distributed network of storage nodes which directly relate data to your SNR address.This gives both our users and developers ownership, and control over their data. Sonr is looking for developers to create data Schemas, and store data that leverages them. We care about both the quantity and quality of the Schemas, and data associated with them. We want to see creative uses of application schemas and data storage on Sonr.

Prizes:

First place: Airpods maxes for each member
Second place: $100 door dash for each member
Third place: 50 SNR in our Sonr token Airdrop

How to make the best use of Location Data (Hypertrack)

Going over fundamentals and best practices when you use location services/data to preserve battery life and maximize privacy.

The winning team will receive $500 in API credits and $750 in cash.

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 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 Twilio Swag Box & GameGo Console.

Best Blockchain Project Using Hedera

Hedera is a next generation blockchain technology that’s accessible from familiar programming languages like Java and JavaScript. Their goal? To make Web3 development even more accessible to hackers like you! Build a project on Hedera's test network for a chance to win amazing Glorious Modular Compact Mechanical Keyboards for you and your team!

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.

What’s that sound? Decreasing noise in near-term quantum computers (2)

The Canadian Special Operations Forces Command (CANSOFCOM) is looking for innovative
solutions to implement a recently developed error mitigation technique called Pauli
Sandwiching in order to decrease the noise in near-term quantum computers. The basic idea is to catch errors based on how they commute with a set of Pauli operators.
1 st place – $500
2 nd place – $250

Feel the burn! Circuit training for variational quantum classifiers (2)

The Canadian Special Operations Forces Command (CANSOFCOM) is looking for methods and applications for training variational quantum circuits. In this set of challenges, you’ll explore how to construct and optimize a diverse set of circuits from the ground up, and become acquainted with some of today’s popular quantum machine learning and optimization algorithms.
1 st place – $500
2 nd place – $250