what is recesshacks?

Are you a Canadian high school student?

RecessHacks is a 48-hour online hackathon for Canadian high schoolers. We empower high schoolers in Canada to use programming to create unique solutions to the world's problems.

how does it work?

On August 12 at 12:00 PM, a topic will be announced in our Discord server. All participants must create an innovative, functional and original creation that is related to this topic. It doesn't have to be a website! It can be hardware, software, or anything in between!

You don't even need to know how to code! No-code creations are cool, too. Just make sure that it’s a functional creation, not just a design.

You can work alone or in a team. Teams can have up to 4 people.

Our discord: join

Requirements

Submissions

Submissions will take place through devpost!

All projects must be functional. It certainly doesn't have to bug-free, but it has to be something more than a prototype made in a UI design app.
A video must be submitted demonstrating the functionality and the purpose of the project. Videos must not exceed 5 minutes.
If you used code, it must be submitted. We recommend using GitHub, but we're pretty flexible.

Submissions are due at exactly August 14 at 12:00 PM! Submissions will automatically close, so we recommend you submit 10 minutes early. If you accidentally miss the deadline, email us (contact@recesshacks.com) ASAP!

Please familiarize yourself with the rules.

Submission Format

Your submission on Devpost must include the following points. In your "About the project" part of your submission, make each point a heading and answer it below. An example can be found here.

Inspiration: what inspired you to pursue this project?
What it does: what does your project do? Be specific!
How we built it: how did you do it?
Challenges we ran into
Accomplishments: what are you proud of in your project?
What we learned
What's next

Hackathon Sponsors

Prizes

$CAD162,479 in prizes

1st Place ($1870)

$504 Axure RP Team Edition Subscription (1yr)
$375 Wolfram Award (for all members)
$300 Taskade Starter Plan (5yr)
$210 HRSE Enrollment Discount
$149 Interview Cake 30-day Full Access Pass
$110 Hackathon Survival Guide eBook (x5)
$99 Echo3D Premium (1mo.)
$72 1Password Family Pass (1yr)
$25 AoPS credits
$10 .xyz domain (1yr)
RecessHacks Certificate

2nd Place ($1360)

$375 Wolfram Award (for all members)
$300 Taskade Starter Plan (5yr)
$210 HRSE Enrollment Discount
$149 Interview Cake 30-day Full Access Pass
$110 Hackathon Survival Guide eBook (x5)
$99 Echo3D Premium (1mo.)
$72 1Password Family Pass (1yr)
$25 AoPS credits
$10 .xyz domain (1yr)
RecessHacks Certificate

3rd Place ($1360)

Best Beginner Project ($1360)

Popular Vote Winner ($1340)

Participation ($610) (245)

$210 HRSE Enrollment Discount
$149 Interview Cake 30-day Full Access Pass
$99 Echo3D Premium (1mo.)
$72 1Password Family Pass (1yr)
$60 Taskade Starter Plan (1yr)
$10 .xyz domain (1yr)
RecessHacks Certificate

Most Innovative Use Of Verbwire API ($2500) (2)

$2500 Verbwire Premium API credits
2 Teams which use the Verbwire API in the most unique, effective and interesting way will be given this award.

Sponsored by Verbwire
For your project to be eligible, please see the 'Prizes' section in the rules

Judges

Vladislav Bilay
Globee Awards Judge, Tech Lead @ Aquiva Labs

Vikash Agrawal
Senior Engineer @ AWS

Dominic Damoah
CTO @ Vie Inc

Nandita Gupta
Accessibility Insights Lead @ Microsoft

Karan Ganju
Senior Engineer @ Parafin, ex-Google, ex-Twitter

Judging Criteria

Functionality
You will be judged on the functionality of your project: Does the project work properly? Does the project fulfill its purpose?
Design
You will be judged on the design of your project: Is the project aesthetically pleasing? Is the project adaptive (for sites and apps)?
Concept
You will be judged on the concept of your project: Is the idea original? Does it solve a real-world problem?
Presentation
You will be judged on the presentation of your project: Were all the functions of the application demonstrated clearly? Is there anything confusing about the project not mentioned in the presentation?

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