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About

Hack for Humanity is Santa Clara University’s social good hackathon. You and a team of 2-6 people will work together to develop tools and applications which will be used by those in your larger community to make the end user’s life better.

In the past, we have seen teams build many incredible projects, including:

Interactive preliminary health diagnosis applications using Amazon Alexa
Messenger bot applications that help people become better recyclers
Drones enabling internet access in the aftermath of natural disasters

The possibilities are endless, and we would love your participation to help us push for a more conscious, compassionate, and competent community.

For more information, please visit: hackforhumanity.io

Eligibility

Groups of 2-6 undergraduate or graduate students
A school email is required for registration and participation

Requirements

a link to a git repository (MUST BE SUBMITTED VIA DEVPOST)
tar file
zip file

Hackathon Sponsors

Prizes

$4,000 in prizes

1st

Grand Cash Prize of $1500

2nd

Grand Cash Prize of $1000

3rd

Grand Cash Prize of $500

Best Use of Microsoft Azure

Xbox One S

Marrkula Ethical Analysis Prize

Grand cash prize of $500

Most Interdisciplinary Prize

Grand cash prize of $500

Judges

Tim Burks
Software Engineer at Google

Yi Fang
Associate Professor of Computer Engineering, Santa Clara University

Eric Nielsen
Sr. Director, VMware/Marketing

Sara Krehbiel
Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Santa Clara University

Howard Levinson
Assistant Professor of Math and CS, Santa Clara University

Elizabeth Sweeny
Product Manager at Google

Ron Snyder
Solutions Architect at Cisco Tactical Operations

Lily Chang
Vice President, Strategic Transformation, JV, VMware

Blake Tsuzaki
Software Engineer at Apple

Chris Norris
Executive Director, Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Rachel Goldstein
Software Engineer at Microsoft

Ahmed Amer
Associate Professor of Computer Engineering, Santa Clara University

Adam Starr
Data Scientist at Proofpoint

Chia Hwu
Former CEO of Qubop, Inc.

Gideon Shaanan
Co-founder & CTO of Click My Cause

Judging Criteria

Technology
How technically impressive was the hack? Was the technical problem the team tackled difficult? Did it use a particularly clever technique or did it use many different components? Is it a scalable design/solution?
Polish
Did the team put thought into the user experience? For a website, this might be about how beautiful the CSS or graphics are. For a hardware project, it might be about how good the human-computer interaction is.
Innovativeness
Does the hack show the team thought “outside of the box”? Does it have a certain “wow factor” to it? Is it different compared to previous solutions?
Social Impact
How much good could this hack bring to others in the specific theme?
Project Completeness
Is there a demo of the product’s functionality? Can major user action flows be completed without significant obstacles?

Hack for Humanity 2020

Santa Clara University's social good hackathon