Welcome to AngelHacks 2.0 (angelhacks.org), the hackathon for the world of angels (previously, city of angels)! We're here to help all beginners get the resources and projects they want under their belt -- so we're putting an extra focus on workshops! You'll choose a workshop you want to do, speed-meet a team (or bring your own), and learn ALL the requisite materal to make the project! Afterwards, feel free to customize and hack away, and the best winner per workshop gets a fun prize :)
We're open to people of all ages, even college students who want to get a jumpstart in coding! Email us at hello@angelhacks.org if you have any questions.
We'll release the specific workshops closer to Feb 26-28, 2021 and if you have any questions, let us know! (Stay tuned for new updates, we might be doing some fun events builing up to the hackathon, like random food deliveries or trivia games!) Additionally, find us on instagram @angelhacks.la!
This is our schedule! CHECK TO SEE THE AWESOME THINGS WE HAVE!!!!!
Activities:
We'll have a bunch of fun activites that also come with prizes, like a bedwars tournament with the wnning team receiving a $100 amazon gift card, wikipedia races, survival games, and more! Make sure to join our discord.
Eligibility
Make sure you have signed up on Airtable and joined our Discord. All ages middle school and beyond welcome! (Feel free to email us if you have any questions) Please be sure to think about fairness though -- we're geared towards beginners so if you have more than 2 years or so of experience, we'd love to have you as a mentor, if you'd like! Of course, you are still allowed to compete!
Requirements
All submissions should have a link to Github repo or easy access to project and explanation of what you added on top of the workshop!
To qualify for prizes, you must have a 2-minute or so video introducing your project.
Prizes
$14,000 in prizes
AirPods
General winner! You'll each win a pair of airpods (up to 4 team members).
Most Innovative Hack - Tesla Factory Tour
Get a tesla factory tour once the quarantine limitations are over! We'll reimburse a small portion of the flight if needed.
Second/Third Prize
(2)
You each win an Amazon Echo Dot, 4th generation! Given to 2 teams!
Weirdest and Craziest Hack
Each team member gets a year's worth of ramen! Yes, really.
Best Education Hack
(2)
Each team member gets a Sphero, those super cool moving balls that you can program. (And are pretty cute!)
Pinnacle Qualification - Best Hack
The top winning team gets an all expenses trip to Pinnacle, the ultimate hackathon where you'll meet some serious hackers and participate in the olympics of coding :P
Workshop Winner - Speakers
(3)
Win a JBL Flip if you win within your workshop and not qualify for another prize! This is given to 2 winning teams!
If you did base your project off a workshop, and someone on your team attended it, put the Workshop + the attendee Discord username in the body of your prize!
Most Daring and Niche Project
Win your age in pounds of slime! (i.e., if you're 16, you'll win 16 pounds of slime -- we can converse afterwards on specs).
This is for the craziest and most useless/useful (!?) hack :)
Devpost Achievements
Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:
Judges
David Liberman
Snapchat / Frank
Tom Preston-Werner
Formerly Github, working on Chatterbug and Redwood JS!
Daniel Liberman
Snapchat / Frank
Chantelle Baier
4Space CEO
Peter Griggs
DeepAI Co-Founder
Peter Dignard
Senior Associate Director of Admission, Phillips Academy Andover
Chris Walker
Polytrope Founder
Zach Latta
Hack Club Co-Founder
Bing Jiang
Rolling Robots
Claire Wang
AngelHacks
Damian
AngelHacks
Kai
AngelHacks
Jacob Haap
AngelHacks / Anomaly Science
Sarthak Mohanty
AngelHacks
Judging Criteria
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Learning
We look at how much you learned during the event. What was your skill level entering the event, and where were you at the end? Someone who enters as a beginner and learns a lot will score better than someone who already has the skills, and learns nothing. -
Effort
Since this is a beginner oriented hackathon, we want to see how much effort you've put into this project! Have you spent a lot of time really perfecting it? Making it accessible to others? Have great documentation for fellow users? -
Originality
How unique is your project? Is it something that's been done before? Projects that are crazy and unusual will score higher. Make an app that helps you communicate with penguin ghosts, and not accounting software.
Questions? Email the hackathon manager
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