HackUPC is Spain's first Collegiate Hackathon, organised at BarcelonaTech's North Campus
Over 400 students from over 20 countries will gather for 36h of dreaming, hacking and shipping on anything and everything. All projects are welcome, mobile, hardware, web, you name it. Throughout the hackathon we'll have introductory talks for first time hackers as well as sponsor Tech Talks to help you out with your hacks!
Hacking starts at 12:00 AM on Saturday and end at 12:00 PM on Sunday. All submissions must be made through Devpost.
Eligibility
Only hackers who recieved a ticket and confirmed attendance are eligible to participate in HackUPC. If you attended and hacked at HackUPC, then you are eligible to make a submission.
Requirements
Hack, submit to Devpost and show your work during demo time from 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM at the venue. Only hacks who do demo are elligible for prizes. Build something awesome.
Prizes
1st Prize
Kindle Paperwhites
2nd Prize
Kindles
3rd Prize
Sunfounder Kits
Skyscanner Prize
Travel Vouchers.
Fast track to Assesment centre.
Best Domain by Domain.com
Domain.com swagbag
Sparkfun Redboards
Amazon AWS Prize
1Tb Hard Drive
Best use of Wolfram Tech
One year of Wolfram Development Platform, Developer Level.
One year of Wolfram Mathematica Student Edition.
One year subscription to Computational Knowledge Engine, Wolfram|Alpha Pro.
Best Developer Tool by Github
Octocat Trophy
Most Innovative and Collaborative Social hack by Everis
Best Beginner Hack by JEDI
Free JEDI courses
Devpost Achievements
Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:
How to enter
Register at http://hackupc.com.
Judges

Dario Nieuwenhuis
CTO - Verse

Toby Oliver
CTO - Typeform

Nicolas Grenié
Hacker in residence - 3scale

Josep Sanjuas
CEO Polygraph

Josep Marc Mingot Hidalgo
Data Scientist and Co-founder Arcvi

Guillem Serra
CEO & Co-Founder Medipremium
Judging Criteria
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Creativity
Does the hack do something new? Is it mindblowing? -
Polish
Does everything appear to work? Is it well designed? Is the user experience good? -
Technical Difficulty
How technically interesting or difficult is the hack? Were there geniune technical problems to overcome? -
Usefulness
Is it something people would actually use? Does it fulfill a real need?
Questions? Email the hackathon manager
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