PeddieHacks is a 48 hour online hackathon hosted by the Peddie School in Hightstown, New Jersey. It is open to all high school and college undergraduate students and is a competition where novice and experienced programmers work together to design solutions for real world problems and participate in workshops. Even though we are unable to host an in-person hackathon, we hope to make this just as interactive and exciting, so sign up for 48 hours of coding, learning, and fun!

IMPORTANT: You MUST fill out this Google form as well when registering: https://forms.gle/ZWw5Tc5HiG4fUwVEA

IMPORTANT: You will find the link to the hackathon Discord in the post-registration message on the Google Form. You MUST join that Discord to receive important communications throughout the hackathon.

Schedule

8/20 7:30 PM EDT Opening Ceremony

8/20 8:30 PM EDT Hacking Begins

8/20 9:30 PM EDT Workshop - Expansion 101: Turning Your Idea into a Reality (Galicia Gordon, Founder of Leading Learners)

8/20 10:00 PM EDT Gaming Session
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8/21 10:00 AM EDT Workshop - How to Build a Cloud-Connected AR/VR App in 15 Minutes or Less (Alon Grinshpoon, Founder and CEO of echoAR)

8/21 11:00 AM EDT Workshop - How to Integrate SAWO's SDK in Your App - Passwordless Authentication (Varun Jaggi, Software Development Engineer at SAWO Labs)

8/21 12:00 PM EDT Workshop - How to Make a Real User Login System (Jared Lera, Co-founder and CTO of Qoom)

8/21 2:00 PM EDT Workshop - Cybersecurity Management within the Modern Business Environment (Ray Gasnick III, Director of Compliance Services at Miles Technologies)

8/21 6:00 PM EDT Workshop - Fundamentals of Internet Security: Certificates 101 (Peter Wolfe, Security Architect at Verizon)

8/21 8:00 PM EDT Workshop - Evolution of Crypto: deFi, NFTs, and the Ethereum Ecosystem (Alex Wolfe, Engineering Manager - Core Product at Coinbase)

8/21 10:00 PM EDT Gaming Session
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8/22 10:00 AM EDT Hacking Ends & Submissions Close

8/22 10:30 AM EDT Workshop - Balancing the Binary (Erin Fago, Software Engineer and Scrum Master at Leidos)

8/22 12:00 PM EDT Live Judging

8/22 4:00 PM EDT Gaming Session

8/22 6:30 PM EDT Winners Announcement & Closing Ceremony

Workshops will be up to 1 hour and gaming sessions will be up to 2 hours.

Requirements

The two tracks will be announced at the opening ceremony on 8/20. Please make sure to submit your code and slideshow, and a 1-2 minute video demo of your project. Following submission, you will be notified if you have qualified for the live judging round where you will present your slideshow and project to a panel of judges.

Hackathon Sponsors

Prizes

$50,000 in prizes

SWAG ($1000+ in swag for each participant)

- Promo code for Twilio credits
- 90-day extended trial promo code for the Balsamiq Cloud
- $10 1-year .xyz domain
- $13 ebook copy of "College Admissions During COVID" (The Princeton Review) for rising high school juniors and seniors
- $20 3-month Qoom Starter Plan
- $21 3-month Repl.it Hacker Plan
- $25 30-day access to Wolfram|One
- $60 1-year Taskade Unlimited upgrade
- $89 1-month business tier access to the echoAR platform
- $100 60-day free trial for DigitalOcean
- $120 in SashiDo credits
- $135 10,000 SAWO Labs authentications
- $165 30-day access pass to the Interview Cake full coding interview prep course
- $300 6-month license for Voiceflow Pro

Miles Technologies Safety and Security College Prize

- $400 for team
- Reserved Spot to join a future Miles Technologies Invite-Only Software Developer Bootcamp Program for each team member
- Lifetime Taskade Unlimited upgrade for each team member
- $250 1-year egghead.io Pro Membership for each team member
- $375 Wolfram Award for each team member
- $504 1-year subscription license of Axure RP Team for team

Miles Technologies Safety and Security High School Prize

- $400 for team
- Reserved Spot to join a future Miles Technologies Invite-Only Software Developer Bootcamp Program for each team member
- "Slingshot Verified" status for a final round internship interview with a Slingshot Startup Partner for each team member
- Lifetime Taskade Unlimited upgrade for each team member
- $18 6-month 1Password individual account for each team member
- $100 Sublime Text license key for each team member
- $375 Wolfram Award for each team member
- $504 1-year subscription license of Axure RP Team for team

Fintech and E-commerce College Prize

- $400 for team
- Lifetime Taskade Unlimited upgrade for each team member
- $250 in DigitalOcean credits for each team member
- $250 1-year egghead.io Pro Membership for each team member
- $375 Wolfram Award for each team member
- $504 1-year subscription license of Axure RP Team for team

Fintech and E-commerce High School Prize

- $400 for team
- "Slingshot Verified" status for a final round internship interview with a Slingshot Startup Partner for each team member
- Lifetime Taskade Unlimited upgrade for each team member
- $250 in DigitalOcean credits for each team member
- Two $240 1-year subscription licenses of Framer Pro for team
- $375 Wolfram Award for each team member
- $504 1-year subscription license of Axure RP Team for team

Solo Prize

- $460 GAR Colossus Starter Kit for Arduino
- Lifetime Taskade Unlimited upgrade
- $42 ebook copy of "Build Better Products" (Rosenfeld Media)
- $100 Sublime Text license key
- $375 Wolfram Award

High School Innovation Prize

- $80 for team
- Lifetime Taskade Unlimited upgrade for each team member
- $25 AOPS coupon for each team member
- Two $129 12-month Magoosh ACT/SAT Premium subscriptions for team
- $375 Wolfram Award for each team member

College Innovation Prize

- $80 for team
- Lifetime Taskade Unlimited upgrade for each team member
- $42 ebook copy of "Build Better Products" (Rosenfeld Media) for each team member
- Two $250 1-year egghead.io Pro Memberships for team
- $375 Wolfram Award for each team member

Judges' Prize

- Lifetime Taskade Unlimited upgrade for each team member
- $375 Wolfram Award for each team member

echoAR AR/VR Application Challenge

- Participants must use the echoAR platform as part of their project to be eligible for the challenge
- $50 Amazon gift card for team
- $267 3-month Business Tier access to the echoAR platform for each team member
- Selected projects will be featured on the echoAR “Inspiration” page (https://docs.echoar.xyz/web-console/learn-pages/inspiration-page)

SashiDo Machine Learning Challenge

- Participants must use the Teachable Machine and SashiDo platforms as part of their project to be eligible for the challenge
- Prize includes SashiDo credits, recognition on SashiDo social media channels, special certificates, swag, etc.

SAWO Labs Challenge

- Participants must use the SAWO Labs API as part of their project to be eligible for the challenge
- $100 for team
- $48 1-month Inaugurate Tier access for each team member
- Goodies and certificate for each team member
- Feature in SAWO Labs blogs and articles (https://sawolabs.medium.com/)
- SAWO Labs funds 100% of the Play Store/App Store subscription fee for the winning mobile app(s)
- SAWO Labs funds 100% of the hosting fee for the winning web app(s)
- Special opportunity to pitch hack to venture capitalists and investors in SAWO Labs' Pitch Day Hack

Qoom Web App Challenge

- Participants must use the Qoom platform as part of their project to be eligible for the challenge
- $140 1-year Pro Plan for team
- Invitation to the Qoom Creator Group for team (https://www.qoom.io/creator-group)
- Selected projects will be featured on the Qoom Project Gallery (https://www.qoom.io/projects)