TechTogether Boston, previously known as SheHacks Boston, is Boston's largest student-run hackathon open to all female and femme non-binary individuals!
Our mission is to...
- Empower women and femme non-binary individuals in technology to achieve
- Provide them with opportunities to explore the tech industry in an inspiring, encouraging, and energizing environment
- Create a community of inclusivity within the tech industry
For more information, please check out our website: https://boston.techtogether.io
Eligibility
To participate as a hacker, you must...
- Identify as female or femme non-binary
- Be at least 16 years old
If you do not meet those criteria, please consider joining us at TechTogether Boston as a volunteer or mentor! Read more on volunteering/mentoring here.
Prizes
$22,875 in prizes
Best Hack for Boston
Surface Gos for all members of the team
Best UI/UX Hack
Sketch Licenses for all members of the team
Funniest Hack
Google Cardboards for all members of the team
Best All Beginner Team Hack
JBL speakers for all members of the team
Best High School Hack
Airpods for all members of the team
Best Failed Hack Challenge
UberEats gift cards for all members of the team
Best Education Hack
Each winner will be gifted a Udemy course of the winner's choice
Health Issues Hack
Google Homes for all members of the team
Gender Equality Hack
$100 Amazon Gift Card per member
Climate Change Environmental Sustainability Challenge
FitBits for all members of the team
Waste Reduce Environmental Sustainability Challenge
FitBits for all members of the team
Policy Makers and Citizens Political Polarization Challenge
Amazon Echos for all members of the team
Fake News Political Polarization Challenge
Amazon Echos for all members of the team
TwoSigma - Best Use of Open Source Data For Social Good
Swag bags for all members of the team
IBM Research Award - Trusted AI: Making AI Safer and More Fair
(3)
Internship for IBM research or interview for full time position
Bloomberg - Best Social Good Hack
4 mini projectors / portable projectors
Rough Draft Ventures - Best Entrepreneurial Hack
(2)
Swag bag, lunch with RDV co-founders, and an opportunity to pitch RDV for up to $25K in funding
Validity - Best Charitable Hack
6 Duck Tour tickets and Fenway hats. If eligible, you get a guaranteed interview.
BCBS - Mental Health Issues Hack
Internships for all members of the team
Experimental Civic & Hacker Noon - Come As You Are
$100 Amazon gift card and an opportunity for winning team to pitch/showcase their project to the City of Boston
JPMorgan Chase - Best Hack for Disaster Relief and Recovery
(2)
Bose SoundLink Wireless Headphones for all members of the first winning team, Raspberry Pi Ultimate Starter Kits for all members of the second winning team
Microsoft - Azure Champ Challenge
(2)
Automatic entry in Imagine Cup 2019 Semi-Finals and two chances to become one of the few elite teams at our regional finals, plus Xbox One Xs for each team member
Wayfair - Best Use of Wayfair API
Oculus Go headsets
Wayfair - Best Hack for Housing Inequality
Donation to charity, swag bag
Underscore VC - Best Use of Human-Centered AI
1. Guaranteed interview for our U_First accelerator
2. Two 30-minute mentorship sessions with the winning team to advise on the hack/project -> company transition
Capital One - Best Financial Hack
$300 gift cards for each team member
Mathworks - Best Use of Data Hack
Drones for all members of the team
Contrary Capital - Scrappiest Hack
Dinner with Chief of Staff and opportunity to pitch their project + AMA
Best Domain Name from Domain.com
Raspberry Pi & PiHut Essential Kit for each team member
MassCEC - Best Clean Transportation Hack
$300 to the winning team
Red Hat - Best Masked Machine Learning Hack
Red Hat backpack filled with swag + 100 Visa giftcard
Spark! Inclusion in Tech Hack
Oculus Go headsets and subscriptions to Treehouse.com for all members of the team
Boston Women's Workforce Council - Hack the Gender Wage Gap
$500 cash award
Liberty Mutual - Gender Equality Hack
Smart bracelets + $250 donation to Girls Who Code
Devpost Achievements
Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:
How to enter
We will be accepting rolling applications up until March 21, 2019. To register for TechTogether Boston, please complete this form.
Judges
Abraham Matta
Boston University
Anne Issartel
Experimental Civics
Aline Yurik
Blue Cross Blue Shield
Ariel Horowitz
IBM
B Cavello
IBM
Bobbie Carlton
Experimental Civics
Brasanth Anbalagan
Microsoft
Chad Pytel
Thoughtbot
Chris Lord
Armored Things
Deniz Johnson
Dell
Grace Heard
Dell
Heena Purohit
IBM
Hema Veeradhi
MathWorks
Justine Bellew
Bloomberg
Jerry Kilmartin
Blue Cross Blue Shield
Kapiolani Kassal
Validity
Katherine Eshel
City of Boston
Kim Lucas
City of Boston
Kimberly Leon
Oculus VR
Mubing Liu
Bloomberg
Lance McCarthy
John Hancock
Marion Meirlaen
Dell
Nicole Peterson
Red Hat
Rachel Shu
Bloomberg
Rashi Khurana
Shutterstock
Sarah Medeiros
Underscore
Samantha Karam
Wayfair
Shena Lohardho
Red Hat
Shereen Shermek
Boston Women's Who Code
Sumita Palanisamy
Shutterstock
Trudi Lord
Concord Consortium
Vipresh Gangwal
IBM
Wai Yim
City of Boston
Wendy Woodin
Facebook
Zaid Haque
MassCEC
Zoe Song
Slalom Build
Judging Criteria
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Originality
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Presentation
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Usefulness
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Difficulty
Questions? Email the hackathon manager
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