About the challenge

HackBytes is a 1.5 day, free, beginner friendly web development international hackathon! It is for participants 13+, ideally targeting school students such as in high school and college or company workers. It will start June 11 at 10 am Eastern Time, hacking will end on June 12 at 4 pm EST, judging will be between 4 pm and 5:30 pm, and the award ceremony will be at 5:30 pm EST :). In between, we have several workshops :)

 

Get started

You can go solo or have up to 4 team members. Websites only :)

How to Participate

Participants must register themselves (each team member) on this Google Form to be eligible to participate and win prizes. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdWsnBIln2bIM7U7UylaeHd7C2x9vw5WcrmFSIByo3kG3XjRg/viewform?usp=sf_link

Participants must join the discord to receive announcements, mentor help, and form teams.

https://discord.gg/h5MYpWfCPv

FAQs

Team or solo? Both! up to 1-4 members.

What to build? websites or web apps or designing websites only.

Format of hack? new projects only.

Are international participants allowed? Yes!

Note: Cross submissions ARE allowed :)

Summary of Reminders

Here is our organizational website for more information about workshops & logistics: https://thebytesandpieces.weebly.com/hackathon.html

Our communications: contactbytesandpieces@gmail.com and Discord (different one from our main Bytes and Pieces one): https://discord.gg/h5MYpWfCPv

REQUIRED: to earn prizes, please join our Discord group, sign up using this google form, and register a Devpost account and join our hackathon here: hackbytes.devpost.com

 

 

No experience in hackathons or web dev is required.

more questions? email contactbytesandpieces@gmail.com

 

Info About Our Sponsors

1password is proud to offer 1Password Teams for free to the open source community. This is part of our 1Password Teams for Open Source program.

We use open source software every day to build 1Password, and 1Password wouldn't exist without it. This program is our way of giving back by helping more than 250 projects to stay secure. A safe place to keep secrets like social media logins, code signing certificates and SSH keys. We'd love to support your project! To apply, submit a pull request at: https://github.com/1password/1password-teams-open-source

You can find the link for the 1Password Open Source Project here: https://github.com/1password/1password-teams-open-source

 

echo3D (www.echo3D.co) is a cloud platform for 3D/AR/VR that provides tools and server-side infrastructure to help developers & companies quickly build and deploy 3D/AR/VR games, apps, and content. For 1-month FREE access to all Business Plan features of the echo3D platform, register here (note that we rebranded as echo3D from echoAR and updated the link to reflect the same): https://console.echo3d.co/#/auth/register-promo?code=HackBytes

           For any questions:

           echo3D documentation: https://docs.echo3d.co/

           echo3D Slack support channel: https://go.echo3d.co/join

           echo3D GitHub page: https://github.com/echo3Dco

           echo3D workshop recording: https://youtu.be/Pzf2Zrdm3N8 

 

SCHEDULE:

​June 11 @ 10-10:10 am Opening ceremony
June 11 @ 10:10 starting Team formation (#team-formation channel on discord https://discord.gg/h5MYpWfCPv)
June 11@ 11am to June 12@ 4 pm Start hacking
workshops :

  • 6/11 12 pm EST: Processing.js​
  • 6/11 1:30 pm EST: company computer science experience
  • 6/11 2:30 pm EST: Web Development
  • 6/11 10 pm EST: Java
  • 6/12 12:30 pm EST : college experience

June 12 @ 4pm-5:30 Judging period
June 12 @ 5:30-6 pm Award ceremony

Requirements

 

What to Build

A website whose topic or theme is an extracurricular activity, hobby, OR your favorite cause :)

What to Submit

Website demo link (replit, heroku app, etc) , Website code link (github or replit) , and 2-3 minute demo video (youtube or google drive link)

To ensure fairness, we want all participants to start a project from scratch once they form a team on Discord. Feel free to brainstorm ideas beforehand, though.

Hackathon Sponsors

Prizes

$2,539 in prizes

Best high school hack (all team members must be in HS)

$10 Desmos sticker sheet per team, pack of five
Lifetime Taskade upgrades for each member
25% off the first year of 1Password Families (new signups only) for all participants for your event
$100 Edtech Resource Bundle from Leading Learners
$100 Digital Ocean Credits (for all Digital Ocean awards, you MUST be a new customer of Digital Ocean to be eligible)
certificate of Winning from Certopus (each member of the team)

Prettiest UI/UX designed website

Lifetime Taskade upgrades for each member
$100 Digital Ocean Credits
$100 Edtech Resource Bundle from Leading Learners
25% off the first year of 1Password Families (new signups only) for all participants for your event
Certificate of Winning from Certopus (each member of the team)

Best social cause hack (such as environmental, social good, humanitarian, health)

A year of Wolfram|One Personal Edition plus a one-year subscription to Wolfram|Alpha Pro for each member.
The value of each individual award is $375.00.
Lifetime Taskade upgrades for each member
Certificate of Winning from Certopus (each member of the team)

Best hobby/extracurricular website (such as art, music, sports, math, etc)

$20 Kelly Green Rocket - Cotton Short Sleeve Crew (each team, any size)
Lifetime Taskade upgrades for each member
$100 Digital Ocean Credits
$100 Edtech Resource Bundle from Leading Learners
25% off the first year of 1Password Families (new signups only) for all participants for your event
Certificate of Winning from Certopus (each member of the team)

everyone (all participants)

- 25% off the first year of 1Password Families (new signups only) for all participants for your event
- 5-Year free Taskade upgrades for everyone
**note: there's no cost for any taskade upgrades
- Echo3D's in-kind tier and premium tier services as a free perk and resource to all participants of the hackathon so that they benefit from a faster and simpler development process for 3D/AR/VR apps.
more info: echo3D (www.echo3D.co) is a cloud platform for 3D/AR/VR that provides tools and server-side infrastructure to help developers & companies quickly build and deploy 3D/AR/VR games, apps, and content. For 1-month FREE access to all Business Plan features of the echo3D platform, register here (note that we rebranded as echo3D from echoAR and updated the link to reflect the same): https://console.echo3d.co/#/auth/register-promo?code=HackBytes

For any questions:
echo3D documentation: https://docs.echo3d.co/
echo3D Slack support channel: https://go.echo3d.co/join
echo3D GitHub page: https://github.com/echo3Dco
echo3D workshop recording: https://youtu.be/Pzf2Zrdm3N8

Most Technical Hack (most technically difficult)

Free 1-year subscription licenses of Axure RP Team Edition ($504)

Certificate of Winning from Certopus (each member of the team)

Most Unique Hack

A year of Wolfram|One Personal Edition plus a one-year subscription to Wolfram|Alpha Pro for each member.
The value of each individual award is $375.00.

Lifetime Taskade upgrades for each member

Certificate of Winning from Certopus (each member of the team)

Best Beginners Hack (everyone in team must be new to hackathons- if not applicable, they must have attended less # of hackathons than other candidates))

A year of Wolfram|One Personal Edition plus a one-year subscription to Wolfram|Alpha Pro for each member.
The value of each individual award is $375.00.
Lifetime Taskade upgrades for each member
$100 Digital Ocean Credits
25% off the first year of 1Password Families (new signups only) for all participants for your event
$100 Edtech Resource Bundle from Leading Learners
Certificate of Winning from Certopus (each member of the team)

Best all-girls team or solo website

A year of Wolfram|One Personal Edition plus a one-year subscription to Wolfram|Alpha Pro for each member.
The value of each individual award is $375.00.
Lifetime Taskade upgrades for each member
Certificate of Winning from Certopus (each member of the team)

Devpost Achievements

Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:

Judges

Sameeh Suhail
Arizona

Oyin Dawodu
Nigeria

Aman Dewangan

Aman Dewangan
India

Igor Lopushko
Ukraine

Ryan Yang

Ryan Yang
California

Alexander Makeev

Alexander Makeev
Georgia

Cengiz Gunay
Georgia

Judging Criteria

  • Website
    Participants must create a web app or website using design or code, although code is preferred.
  • Originality
    Does it do something entirely novel, or at least take a fresh approach to an old problem?
  • Execution
    Is the hack usable in its current state? Is the user experience smooth? Does everything appear to work? Is it well designed?
  • Usefulness
    Is the hack practical? Is it something people would actually use?
  • Technical Difficulty
    Is the hack technically interesting or difficult?
  • Polish
    Is the hack polished? Is it free of bugs, easy-to-use, and if possible, aesthetically pleasing?

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