Taking place from the 30th to the 31st of January 2016, the first large hackathon in Cambridge is bound to be a lot fun. 400 attendees will descend upon one of the world's oldest universities, some coming from as far as MIT, Singapore, and Egypt. Students from all over the world are welcome!
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Prizes
Hack Cambridge 1st Place
Nexus 9
Hack Cambridge 2nd Place
Parrot Taxi MiniDrone
Hack Cambridge 3rd Place
Amazon Kindle
Hack Cambridge People's Choice Award
Pebble Time
The Thales Security Challenge
£200 Amazon vouchers for each member of the winning team.
Best Hack in Gaming/Virtual Reality by Improbable
Early access to SpatialOS and Improbable printed Oculus Gear VR kits.
Best Hack in Hardware by ARM
For each member of the winning team: Grover Sensor starter kit for mbed, ROCKI wifi music system, and a £30 Spotify gift card.
Best use of HPE Haven OnDemand API
GoPro - HERO4 Session HD
Best use of Mendeley API
One Parrot Jumping Race Drone JETT for each member of the winning team.
Best use of Beaker API
£1000 pounds in gift cards split amongst the winning team.
Best use of Nessie API
Nespresso Inissia Coffee Machine
Best use of Amazon Web Services
Power banks.
Best use of Google Cloud Platform
£1000 in Cloud Platform credit to continue your idea after the hackathon.
Best domain name registered with Domain.com
Arduino Red Board
Best use of OpenTSDB
£100 Amazon voucher for each member of the winning team.
Bloomberg's Favorite Hack
Funniest Hack
Devpost Achievements
Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:
Judges
Dr. Robert Mullins
Senior Lecturer in the Computer Laboratory at the University of Cambridge
Tim Fogarty
Commissioner of Major League Hacking
John Britton
Education Liaison at GitHub
William Tunstall-Pedoe
Principal Product Manager at Amazon (Echo, Alexa and Evi)
Professor Cicilia Mascolo
Full Professor of Mobile Systems in the Computer Laboratory at the University of Cambridge
Robert Whitehead
CTO at Improbable
Judging Criteria
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TBA
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