SystemsHacks is a 12-hour, beginner-friendly Hackathon run by the Software Systems Student Society. Many students from all over SFU have attended SystemsHacks in the past for the sense of community, technical experience, and prizes! SystemsHacks has occurred annually since 2017 and we are excited to bring you another virtual event. Everyone is welcome to apply here!
This year's theme is Quackathon; create a project broadly duck-based that'll make the judges quack up! Create a duck mascot, identify ducks with AI, and more; you're only limited by your imagination! Think up new and innovative ways to insert a duck wherever into your project!
Requirements
Make sure you submit in such a way to allows people to appreciate your hard work. You want people to vote for your project in the community vote!
Please include in your description the name of your team and name of project members (the same name you used on our Team Formation Slides!)
Also don't forget to provide a link to your project so others can get an idea of what you made! This can be a link to a website where the project is hosted or a Github Repo.
Prizes
First Place Team Prize
$350 cash prize to be split among the team.
Second Place Team Prize
$250 cash prize to be split among the team.
Third Place Team Prize
$150 cash prize to be split among the team.
Best Terminal Prize: The Bufflehead Duck Award
This award goes to the best project that only used the IDE terminal or command line as its GUI. The team behind this project used the very first tool of any programming journey and stretched it to its limit with impressive results. Whether it be a text-based duck adventure, duck migration calculator, or just some really cool ASCII art, this project showed what could be done with just the basics.
Nicest Looking: The Mandarin Duck Award
This award is for the project that was the most visually appealing. The team behind this project clearly put some time in to make it look very pretty. Maybe you find the colour scheme is nice, or the way the animations flow very satisfying, or the shapes are really expressive. Whatever it is, this project is the one that really caught your eye.
Duckiest: The Mallard Duck Award
This award goes to the project that went the hardest on the theme of this hackathon. When you heard this was a duck-themed hackathon, this was the project you imagined would come out of it. Maybe it only used variables that were duck-related, or was specifically designed to be used by ducks. This project took the idea of ducks and went all in during development.
Most Original Idea: The Hooded Merganser Duck Award
This award goes to the project that truly stands out from the others just because you’ve never seen anything else like it before. There was some truly deep thinking that went into this project that pulled ideas never before conceived by the human mind. I can’t even give examples of projects that would qualify or else it would already be not as original as this project is.
Devpost Achievements
Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:
Judges
Community Vote
Judging Criteria
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Duck Theme
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Technical Skill
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Design
Questions? Email the hackathon manager
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