Welcome to Rose Hack 2021!
Rose Hack 2021 is UCR's women-centric hackathon where students from all backgrounds are celebrated. Hundreds of participants form teams and build a project over the event's 24 hour duration.
Rose Hack is beginner friendly and welcomes all participants to learn, develop, and hone their skills. Have you ever wanted to learn how to build something, but didn't know where to start? We will provide everything you need from swag, mentoring, and a diverse range of workshops to help you level up your hacking experience.
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Prizes
$5,120 in prizes
1st Place
Nintendo Switch
1-year subscription to Wolfram|One Personal Edition
1-year subscription to Wolfram|Alpha Pro
2nd Place
Apple TV 4K
1-year subscription to Wolfram|One Personal Edition
1-year subscription to Wolfram|Alpha Pro
3rd Place
HP VH240a 23.8-Inch LED Monitor
1-year subscription to Wolfram|One Personal Edition
1-year subscription to Wolfram|Alpha Pro
Best Beginner Hack
JBL Flip 4 Speaker
1-year subscription to Wolfram|One Personal Edition
1-year subscription to Wolfram|Alpha Pro
Best UI/UX Hack
Fujifilm instax Mini 9 Instant Camera with Film Twin Pack Bundle
1-year subscription to Wolfram|One Personal Edition
1-year subscription to Wolfram|Alpha Pro
Best Game Hack
HyperX Cloud II Gaming Headset
1-year subscription to Wolfram|One Personal Edition
1-year subscription to Wolfram|Alpha Pro
Best Woman Centric Hack
AKKO Retro Mechanical Keyboard
Women Don't Owe You Pretty by Florence Given
1-year subscription to Wolfram|One Personal Edition
1-year subscription to Wolfram|Alpha Pro
Best Domain Registered with Domain.com
PowerSquare Qi Wireless Phone Charger & Domain.com Backpack
1-year subscription to Wolfram|One Personal Edition
1-year subscription to Wolfram|Alpha Pro
Best use of Google Cloud
Google Branded Parkland Academy Backpack
1-year subscription to Wolfram|One Personal Edition
1-year subscription to Wolfram|Alpha Pro
Best Hardware Hack Sponsored by Digi-Key (2)
Grove Beginner Kits
1-year subscription to Wolfram|One Personal Edition
1-year subscription to Wolfram|Alpha Pro
Devpost Achievements
Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:
Eligibility
- Participants: High school or university undergraduate students
- Teams: Team sizes are capped at 4 members, but any team with 1-4 members is welcome.
Requirements
- All submissions must be created from scratch and completed before the submission deadline.
- A recorded demo submission, in addition to a live demo, is required.
- It is the participant's responsibility to enter a Devpost submission on time and opt in to judging criteria categories.
Judges
Aaron Stevenson
United States Space Force
Nicole Cavaleri
Senior Director @ FireEye
Nicole Knight
Senior Manager, Technical Program Management @ FireEye
Patty Chang
Product Management, AI and Robotics @ Brain Corp
Evangelos Papalexakis
UCR Professor, Machine Learning
Jiasi Chen
UCR Professor, VR
Mariam Salloum
UCR Professor, Data Science
Jacob Poole
Alumni, Electrical Engineer at Applied Medical
Cindy Quach
Alumni, Product Marketing Manager at Amazon
Jack Kolb
Alumni, PhD Student at GIT
Natasha Sciupac
Alumni, Former SWE @ UCR President
Natasha Orie
Alumni, Program Manager at Azure PlayFab
Emily Huang
Alumni, Project Manager @ Microsoft
Katie Fukuda
Alumni, Software Development Engineer @ Amazon
Valerie Chiou
Alumni, Software Engineer @ Moody's Analytics
Pravallika (Pravi) Devenini
Alumni, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Researcher
John Shin
Allumni, Software Engineer @ Raytheon
William Shiao
Alumni, PhD Student at UC Riverside
Eric Ong
Alumni, Software Engineer @ Intuit
Carolyn Kong
Former Rose Hack Director
Judging Criteria
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Beginner Hack
For your hack to qualify as a Beginner Hack, Rose Hack must be the first hackathon a majority of your team has attended (ex. 3 of 4, or 2 of 3) -
Women Centric Hack
Your project must empower, celebrate, and/or support women in some shape or form. -
UI/UX
The project has a clean and easy-to-use interface built with a user in mind. Overall design and clarity will be considered. -
Game Hack
The project must be a playable game. Projects will generally be judged based on overall game design and implementation. -
Best Domain Registered with Domain.com
Register a .tech, .space, or .online domain name using Domain.com during the weekend. Each team may submit one entry per person on the team. -
Best use of Google Cloud
Build your hackathon project with a suite of secure storage, powerful compute, and integrated data analytics products provided by Google Cloud. See full list of products here: g.co/cloud. -
Best Hardware Hack Sponsored by Digi-Key
Using your preferred hardware or hardware emulator, build a hack for your chance to win a Grove Beginner Kit, with Arduino Uno R3 included. We select two winning teams for this category.
Questions? Email the hackathon manager
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