Raffle Prize

1 x Apple MacBook Pro
It will be raffled among those who submit a valid project and are judged. Please check the Hacker's Guide for project submission.

Raffle Prize

1 x Lenovo Carbon X1 Laptops
It will be raffled among those who submit a valid project and are judged. Please check the Hacker's Guide for project submission.

Raffle Prize

1 x Lenovo Carbon X1 Laptops
It will be raffled among those who submit a valid project and are judged. Please check the Hacker's Guide for project submission

1st Place Award by Engie

4 x $500 Gift Card,
4 x MLH Winner Pin

1st Place Award by UIOWA Business Analytics

4 x $500 Gift Card,
4 x MLH Winner Pin

Raffle Prize

1 x DJI Mini 2 SE Drone
It will be raffled among those who submit a valid project and are judged. Please check the Hacker's Guide for project submission.

Raffle Prize

1 x USB w/ Microsoft Windows 10 and Office Suite
It will be raffled among those who attend the tech talk.

Raffle Prize

4 x USB w/ Microsoft Windows 10 and Office Suite
It will be raffled among all participants throughout the hackathon at random times.

3rd Place

4 x (100 Gift Card to Pullman Restaurant + Microsoft USB Packs - Enterprise (Windows 11, Office, and Visual Studio Licenses) (Value of 275));
4 x MLH Winner Pin

4th Place

4 x Microsoft USB Packs - Enterprise (Windows 11, Office, and Visual Studio Licenses) (Value of $275)

5th Place

4 x Microsoft USB Packs - Enterprise (Windows 11, Office, and Visual Studio Licenses) (Value of $275)

Best Insurance Hack by State Farm

4 x Apple Ipad 9th Generation

Best Data Visualization Award by Leepfrog

4 x $200 Gift Card

Best Solo Hack

1 x Microsoft Surface Headphones

Best Commercial Idea Award by UIOWA JPEC

4 x $125 Gift Card

Best Social Impact Hack by UIOWA Business Analytics

4 x $100 Gift Card

Best Agricultural Innovation Award by John Deere

4 x $100 Gift Card

Best Data Visualization Award by the UIOWA Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science

4 x $75 Gift Card

Best Data Collection Hack by UIOWA Business Analytics

4 x $50 Gift Card

Best Sustainability App Award by ENGIE

4 x $75 Gift Card

Best DEI Hack by UIOWA WICS

4 x Divoom Ditoo Retro Pixel Art Game Bluetooth Speaker with 16X16 LED App Controlled Front Screen (Pink)

Quality Engineering Application Award by UIOWA ISE

4 x $50 Gift Card

Best Application of Machine Learning/Artificial Intelligence by UIOWA ECE

4 x $50 Gift Card

Best Dev/Ops Deployment of a Product Award by UIOWA ECE

4 x $50 Gift Card

Best Use of Large Language Models (LLMs)

4 x Microsoft USB Packs - Enterprise (Windows 11, Office, and Visual Studio Licenses) (Value of $275)

Hydroinformatics Innovation Award

4 x Microsoft USB Packs - Enterprise (Windows 11, Office, and Visual Studio Licenses) (Value of $275)

Best Use of Social Media

4 x USB w/ Microsoft Windows 10 and Office Suite

Most Creative Use of GitHub

4 x GitHub Octocat Puzzle & Sticker Pack

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!

Best Use of MongoDB Atlas

4 x M5GO IoT Starter Kit

MongoDB Atlas takes the leading modern database and makes it accessible in the cloud! Get started with a $50 credit for students or sign up for the Atlas free forever tier (no credit card required). Along with a suite of services and functionalities, you'll have everything you need to manage all of your data, and you can get a headstart with free resources from MongoDB University! Build a hack using MongoDB Atlas for a chance to win a M5GO IoT Starter Kit for you and each member of your team.

Best Use of Soroban

4 x Power Bank

Soroban is an open-source Rust-based developer-friendly smart contracts platform built for scalability. It is interoperable with the layer-1 Stellar blockchain and benefits from the network’s existing global reach and access. With Soroban, developers have the freedom to create applications as borderless as the internet.

Learning how to build Decentralized Applications (DAPPs) using Soroban is easy and fun. Simply follow along with the DAPPs on Soroban challenge by forking either of the Crowdfund or Payment repositories, and make the project your own with personalized customizations! The challenge link even has some simple walk-throughs available to help you get started.

Remember to customize your DAPP using Soroban this weekend for a chance to win a Power Bank for you and each of your teammates!

Best Use of MATLAB

4 x Wireless YoYo Speaker

MATLAB and Simulink are computational tools used at over 100,000 businesses, government and university sites in over 190 countries. Use MATLAB and/or Simulink exclusively or integrate them into another tool for your next hack to win an exclusive MathWorks branded Wireless YoYo Speaker! You can also claim a free MATLAB software license to get started.

Best .Tech Domain Name

4 x Blue Snowball Microphone & a Free .Tech Domain Name for Life!

Make your Team's Achievements timeless: Win a .Tech Domain Name for Life to Showcase and Expand Your Project, Plus 4 Blue Snowball Mics for Effortless Collaboration on Zoom, empowering you to build even more cool things together!

Best Use of Auth0

4 x Exclusive Auth0 Swag made for MLH

Auth0 wants your applications to be secure! Why spend hours building features like social sign-in, Multi-Factor Authentication, and passwordless log-in when you can enable them through Auth0 straight out of the box? Auth0 is free to try, doesn’t require a credit card, and allows for up to 7,000 free active users and unlimited log-ins. Make your new account today and use any of the Auth0 APIs for a chance to win some exclusive swag, including an Auth0 branded Rocketbook and Rubik's Cube!

Best Use of Taipy

4 x Wireless Headphones

Taipy is a powerful yet easy to use open-source Python library for creating full stack web applications! If you’re a Python developer, this library enables you to build interactive and dynamic graphical user interfaces and support them with data-driven backends. All of these functionalities are just a pip install taipy away and can cut your development time in half! Use Taipy in your hackathon project for a chance to win a set of Wireless Headphones for you and each of your team members, as well as a chance to have your project featured on the Taipy website!