AWS Graviton Hackathon for Programmers and Chance to Win $10,000 from Devpost
Applicant criteria
- No specific age required
- Both
Opportunity criteria
Opportunity description
Devpost invites programmers and developers around the world to participate in the AWS Graviton Hackathon. Participants must build or migrate innovative applications on AWS Graviton2-based EC2 instances.
Benefits
Total Prize Funds - $50,000 USD
New App Category:
- Best New App: $10,000 USD
- Blog post featuring the winning projects.
- Runner Up - New App: $7,500 USD
- Blog post featuring the winning projects
- Third Place - New App: $5,000 USD
- Blog post featuring the winning projects.
- Fourth Place - New App: $2,500 USD
- Blog post featuring the winning projects
- Fifth Place - New App: $1,500 USD
- Blog post featuring the winning projects
- Honorable Mention: $10,000 USD
Migration Category:
- Best Migration: $5,000 USD
- Blog post featuring the winning projects
- Runner Up - Migration: $2,500 USD
- Blog post featuring the winning projects
- Third Place - Migration: $1,500 USD
- Blog post featuring the winning projects
Bonus Prizes:
- Most Creative Use Case: $1,500 USD
- Blog post featuring the winning projects
- Best Technical Implementation: $1,500 USD
- Blog post featuring the winning projects
- Highest Potential Impact: $1,500 USD
- Blog post featuring the winning projects
Eligibility criteria
The Hackathon IS open to:
- Individuals who are at least the age of majority where they reside as of the time of entry;
- Teams of Eligible Individuals; and
- Organizations (including corporations, not-for-profit corporations and other nonprofit organizations, limited liability companies, partnerships, and other legal entities) that exist and have been organized or incorporated at the time of entry.
- An Eligible Individual may join more than one Team or Organization and an Eligible Individual who is part of a Team or Organization may also enter the Hackathon on an individual basis.
- If a Team or Organization is entering the Hackathon, they must appoint and authorize one individual (the “Representative”) to represent, act, and enter a Submission, on their behalf.
The Hackathon IS NOT open to:
- Individuals or organizations domiciled in a country or territory subject to US sanctions such as Italy, Mexico, Brazil, Quebec, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, and Syria.
- Organizations involved with the design, production, paid promotion, execution, or distribution of the Hackathon, including the Sponsor and Administrator.
Rules:
- Be solely owned by the submitter, and not violate the IP rights of any other person or entity.
- An Entrant may submit more than one Submission, however, each submission must be unique and substantially different from each of the Entrant’s other Submissions, as determined by the Sponsor and Devpost in their sole discretion.
- All Submission materials must be in English or, if not in English, the Entrant must provide an English translation of the demonstration video, text description, and testing instructions as well as all other materials submitted.
Judging Criteria:
Entries will be judged on the following equally weighted criteria:
- Quality of the Idea (Includes creativity, originality, and code quality).
- Potential Value (Includes the extent to which the solution can be widely useful for your organization & the Graviton ecosystem).
- Implementation (Includes how well the idea was executed by the developers and the extent to which Graviton’s features were leveraged).
About Devpost:
Build products, practice skills, learn technologies, win prizes, and grow your network. Hackathons are about learning and having fun. We’ve partnered with great organizations like Oculus, Uber, Evernote, Twitter, Twilio, Venmo, IBM, Microsoft, Qualcomm, and more to bring you new opportunities to practice your skills, learn new technologies / APIs, work on interesting problems, and win some amazing prizes.
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