Citrus Hack is where hundreds of students from all over the world come together and form teams, aiming to build a project of their own from scratch over the duration of 36 hours. This year, Citrus Hack is going online. Citrus Hack is focused on the brilliant partnership between education and competition.
Eligibility
- Participants: Admitted students can hack, please apply at citrushack.com to be eligible to hack.
- Teams: Team membership is capped at 4 members
Requirements
It is the responsibility of the teams to opt into judging criteria categories on Devpost.
Please submit a maximum 2-minute video with your submissions along with your code (either on GitHub which is most preferred or a ZIP file with your code).
Projects without code are subject to disqualification.
Prizes
$56,636 in prizes
1st Place
4x iPad
4x 1-year subscription to Wolfram|One Personal Edition
4x 1-year subscription to Wolfram|Alpha Pro
4x $100 Digital Ocean Credits
2nd Place
4x Oculus Quest 2
4x 1-year subscription to Wolfram|One Personal Edition
4x 1-year subscription to Wolfram|Alpha Pro
4x $100 Digital Ocean Credits
3rd Place
4x Audio Technica Bluetooth Headphones
4x 1-year subscription to Wolfram|One Personal Edition
4x 1-year subscription to Wolfram|Alpha Pro
4x $100 Digital Ocean Credits
Best Sustainability Hack
4x Allbirds Wool Runners
4x 1-year subscription to Wolfram|One Personal Edition
4x 1-year subscription to Wolfram|Alpha Pro
4x $100 Digital Ocean Credits
Best Health and Wellness Hack
4x Fitbit Inspire 2
4x 1-year subscription to Wolfram|One Personal Edition
4x 1-year subscription to Wolfram|Alpha Pro
4x $100 Digital Ocean Credits
Best Cybersecurity Hack
4x SoloKey
4x 1-year subscription to Wolfram|One Personal Edition
4x 1-year subscription to Wolfram|Alpha Pro
4x $100 Digital Ocean Credits
Best Theme Hack
4x Indoor Tabletop Fountain
4x 1-year subscription to Wolfram|One Personal Edition
4x 1-year subscription to Wolfram|Alpha Pro
4x $100 Digital Ocean Credits
Most Creative Hack
4x Floating Bluetooth Speaker
4x 1-year subscription to Wolfram|One Personal Edition
4x 1-year subscription to Wolfram|Alpha Pro
4x $100 Digital Ocean Credits
Best UI/UX Hack
4x Wacom Tablet
4x 1-year subscription to Wolfram|One Personal Edition
4x 1-year subscription to Wolfram|Alpha Pro
4x $100 Digital Ocean Credits
Best Beginner Hack
4x 1-month Leetcode Premium Subscription
4x 1-year subscription to Wolfram|One Personal Edition
4x 1-year subscription to Wolfram|Alpha Pro
4x $100 Digital Ocean Credits
1517 Most Novel Hack
1517 will be giving out a $1000 grant with $10K in AWS credits as well to the most novel hack. The team must be in high school or undergrad and interested in continuing to work on their project post-hackathon.
4x 1-year subscription to Wolfram|One Personal Edition
4x 1-year subscription to Wolfram|Alpha Pro
4x $100 Digital Ocean Credits
Best Start-Up Project (Blackstone Launchpad powered by TechStars)
**Must have at least ONE member of the team be a UCR student**
This category is sponsored by Blackstone Launchpad powered by TechStars. The winners will receive a total of $5000 AWS credit split amongst the team members.
4x 1-year subscription to Wolfram|One Personal Edition 4x 1-year subscription to Wolfram|Alpha Pro 4x $100 Digital Ocean Credits
Best Use of Google Cloud Platform (1st Place)
4x Google Cloud branded backpack
4x 1-year subscription to Wolfram|One Personal Edition
4x 1-year subscription to Wolfram|Alpha Pro
4x $100 Digital Ocean Credits
Best Use of Google Cloud Platform (2nd Place)
4x Google Cloud Bundle
4x 1-year subscription to Wolfram|One Personal Edition
4x 1-year subscription to Wolfram|Alpha Pro
4x $100 Digital Ocean Credits
Best Domain Registered with Domain.com
Register a .tech domain name using Domain.com during the weekend. Each team may submit one entry per person on the team. Each winning team member will receive a PowerSquare Qi Wireless Phone Charger and a Domain.com Backpack.
Best Hardware Hack Sponsored by Digi-Key
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Using your preferred hardware or hardware emulator, build a hack for your chance to win a Grove Beginner Kit, with an embedded Arduino compatible board.
Best use of DataStax Astra
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Devpost Achievements
Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:
Judges
Dr. Brian Crites
Software Engineer at PiñataFarms
Dr. Paea LePendu
Assistant Teaching Professor
Dr. Mariam Salloum
Assistant Teaching Professor
Jed Schwendiman
Assistant Dean for Development
John Pham
Engineer at Highlight
Neal Goyal
Technical Program Manager at PayPal
Jacob Poole
Electrical Engineer at Applied Medical
Elmer Thomas
Software Engineer at Twilio
Cameron Morin
Associate Professional Services Consultant at AWS
Lucca Psaila
ACM@UCR Preisdent
Angela Manlangit
IEEE@UCR President
Aditya Acharya
UCR Alumnus
Puloma Katiyar
ACM@UCR 2021-2022 President
Eric Ong
Software Engineer at OpenTable
Hazel Nguyen
UCR Alumnus
Sandy Tsan
UCR Alumnus
Syris Norelli
Autopilot Software Engineer at Tesla
Kelly Downey
Lecturer
William Shiao
PhD Student at UCR
Bradley Evans
Security Researcher
Vagelis Papalexakis
Assistant Teaching Professor
James Luo
UCR Alumnus
Judging Criteria
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Technical Complexity
Is the project is more than just sample code from a tutorial? How far down the rabbit hole did the team go with the scope of their project? -
“Wow” Factor
Is the concept of the project something that you’ve never seen before? Is the execution of the project done in a unique fashion? -
Polish
Does the project look like it’s ready for deployment? Is the project robust from the back end to the end-user? -
Effort
Does the team’s pitch exude passion for the idea they worked on all day? Did they experiment with unfamiliar technologies?
Questions? Email the hackathon manager
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