Philly Codefest 2017 Student Award

This award will recognize the best student team hack. This award is only eligible to 100% student teams! Winning team will be chosen from the top 10 finalists. In addition to a cash prize, each team member (up to 5) will receive one *year* of unlimited private GitHub repositories.

Philly Codefest 2017 Collaborative Award

Philly Codefest 2017 Collaborative Award: In the spirit of Philly Codefest’s mission, the Collaborative Award is only open to teams with a mix of students and professional participants. This award will go to the best overall hack and will be chosen from one of the top 10 finalists. In addition to a cash prize, each team member (up to 5) will receive one *year* of unlimited private GitHub repositories.

College of Computing & Informatics Innovation Award

This prize is awarded by the College of Computing & Informatics to the team with the most innovative hardware or software hack.

Best Hardware Hack

This prize is awarded to the team voted on by judges to have the best hardware hack.

Wawa Challenge - Best User Interface

This prize is awarded to the most well-designed, most intuitive, and unique mobile interface that focuses on the user experience. The winning interface should be inclusive - considering all users, such as those with perceptual, motor, and/or cognitive disabilities, as well as age, education/literacy and socio-economic status. In addition to a cash prize, each team member (up to 5) will receive one *year* of unlimited private GitHub repositories.

Accelerate Health Tech Award (2)

Three 'Accelerate Health Tech' Awards will be given to two teams that demonstrate (1st, 2nd and 3rd place) a clear innovative idea that will improve the healthcare landscape and clinical care of patients. The teams will be judged on creativity, innovation, clinical impact, business model, simplicity, ease of use, and marketability of their product. Award recipients and team leaders will also be awarded a one year 'Accelerate Health' training on collaboration, mentorship, and strategy for further funding with Dr. Anita Gupta.

Charles D. Close School of Entrepreneurship - Customer Validation Prize

The Charles D. Close School of Entrepreneurship is providing a prize in the amount of $750 to the team that does the best in validating a real need in the market. This will be evaluated based on the number and quality of customer interviews held during the weekend. Evidence of interviews will be required and the team presentation should indicate an overview of the interview efforts the team accomplished during the weekend.

JPMorgan Chase Challenge - Best Hack for Social Good

JPMorgan Chase's Best Hack for Social Good offers teams (up to 5 ) the opportunity to win Bose Headphones!

Already have an idea? Great! Hack on any social good topic that you are interested in or passionate about. If you do not have a specific idea, you can consider the social good challenges below:

1) Inspiring STEM Education: The demand for computer science graduates will continue to grow in the US over the next five years, vastly outpacing the supply of CS grads. Develop a simple web based game that helps introduce kids to computer science.
2) Accessibility Information: Information about places that are accessible can sometimes be difficult to find. Develop a web or mobile app that helps incentivize people - with and without disabilities - to provide more structured information on accessible spaces.

More information to be provided at Codefest, including judging criteria.

SkyNet Beta Program by HomeNet Auto

Show us how your project is capable of improving itself! This prize will go to the team that the judges feel made the best utilization of machine learning in their project. Machine learning is a method of data analysis that automates analytical model building. Using algorithms that iteratively learn from data, machine learning allows computers to find hidden insights without being explicitly programmed where to look. The winning team will take home an M3D Micro 3D Printer, with 4 spools of filament.

Clouds, Containers, and Code – Oh My! by HomeNet Auto

Show us how you use cloud computing platforms & services (AWS, Azure, etc.) and/or containers (OpenStack, Google, Docker, etc.) to take your application to the next level of scalability! This prize will go to the team that the judges feel made the best utilization of cloud and/or container technologies to support their solution. The winning team will take home an M3D Micro 3D Printer, with 4 spools of filament.

Best Microsoft Hack

This prize goes to the team that uses one or more of the following Microsoft API's; Microsoft Azure (aka.ms/azurepasshack), Windows 10 (aka.ms/uwp); Kinect (aka.ms/kinectdev-center); Microsoft Halolens (aka.ms/hololensdev-center); Cognitive Services (aka.ms/cognitiveservices1); or Bing (aka.ms/bingdev-center). Visit aka.ms/api.lib for a complete API list and aka.ms/azure.all to see all qualifying cloud services.

L-3 Technologies Impact Award

This award will be given to the team that develops the most creative embedded or cloud-based technology hack that has the potential to significantly impact the way we live.