Tech Cares - Earth Hacks (3)

Description: in partnership with EarthHacks from the University of Virginia, a non-profit org like CruzHacks, this category is dedicated to supporting engineers interested in sustainability and earth conservation efforts/technologies
1st Place: 32 inch Fire TV ($143) x4 per team
2nd Place: Polaroid Camera + photo paper ($103) x4 per team
3rd Place: Anker Powercore portable charger + JBL Bluetooth speaker ($73) x4 per team

Tech Cares - Health Hacks (3)

Description: apps, websites, and projects dedicated to expanding healthcare access to everyone through a variety of means. We also emphasize that this category isn’t strictly about physical health because mental is just as important!
1st Place: 32 inch Fire TV ($143) x4 per team
2nd Place: Polaroid Camera + photo paper ($103) x4 per team
3rd Place: Anker Powercore portable charger + JBL Bluetooth speaker ($73) x4 per team

Tech Cares - Justice Hacks (3)

Description: this category hopes to support and shine a light on projects related to civil liberties and social justice. To truly make a space more diverse and accessible to all folks there must also be an emphasis on truly advocating for communities that are historically marginalized and oppressed.
1st Place: 32 inch Fire TV ($143) x4 per team
2nd Place: Polaroid Camera + photo paper ($103) x4 per team
3rd Place: Anker Powercore portable charger + JBL Bluetooth speaker ($73) x4 per team

Best Beginner Hack

Hackathons are meant for everyone, especially our for first-time hackers! To that end, we've created a prize category for teams with all first-time hackers. Only requirement: Everyone in your group is a first-time hacker
Prize: 3D Printer + 2 filaments ($330) x1 per team

Spanner - Best Hardware Hack

Spanner is offering to the winning team (Product Design/Hardware category) a $1,000 prize in the form of Strategic Consulting hours to help them develop their idea.

The winning team shall come up with a concept answering the following criteria:
- Helping to solve a problem related to sustainability, environmental impact, social justice.
- Original, Innovative, ingenuous, sustainable
- User-friendly
- Available to as many people as possible

Amazon - Best Use of Amazon Alexa (4)

Criteria: How far did you get in publishing the skill? Complexity of the skill? Execution? (Does it work)
Prize: 4 Amazon Echo Dots per team ($200)

Poly - Free Gaming Headsets (100)

productOps - Best UX (3)

1st: $300 cash, dinner, and talk on software tech in business consulting
2nd: dinner + talk

Google - Best Use of Google Cloud (2)

Build your hackathon project with a suite of secure storage, powerful compute, and integrated data analytics products provided by Google Cloud. See full list of products here: g.co/cloud.

1st: Google Nest Mini $50, Cloud Patagonia Backpack, Cloud Pillow, Acrylic Trophy, and Cloud Water Bottle every team member
2nd Place: Google Nest Mini’s $250 every team member

Microsoft - Best Use of Azure Challenge (3)

Description: Our mission at Microsoft is to empower every person and organization on the planet to achieve more. Teams must use Microsoft Azure to empower their hackathon project

1st place: Surface Go ($400 one per team) + Backpacks
2nd place: X-Box One ($300 one per team) + Backpacks

UCSC Arts Division - Most Creative Hack (2)

Description: Artists are natural entrepreneurs. They are creative. They are disruptors. They take initiative. They implement enduring change. They bring others along. They make something new and put it out in the world, over and over again. The entrepreneurial mindset positions the artist as a key contributor to addressing today’s most pressing issues. The vision, creativity and problem-solving abilities artists possess are invaluable assets for solving the countless problems we face as a society and for advancing a culture of innovation.
Judging Criteria:
Does the project attempt to solve a problem facing society (large or small scale)?
How creative and entrepreneurial is the project?
Does the project inspire creativity in others?”
1st and 2nd: Plantronics RIG 800LX Wireless Stereo Gaming Headset $150 x4 per team

Notivize - Best Use of Notivize

Description: Notivize makes it easy for product teams to create and optimize app notifications without maintaining complex code. Just define your rules using our notification creator, connect sources of data, and paste the generated code snippet into your app’s source code.
Judging Criteria:
In order to be eligible for the Notivize Prize teams must make use of the Notivize platform in a core use case for a valid CruzHacks 2020 hackathon entry / demo:
Sign up for a free Notivize account on www.notivize.com (we support Gmail auth).
Create at least one notification rule using the Notivize creator. This can be any notification sent via email or SMS based on an event that happens when your hackathon entry is run. (eg. app reminder email, important event in app triggers an SMS, etc.)
Integrate the code generated by Notivize in your hackathon app / code.
Successfully demonstrate the sending of a notification by your app via Notivize.
Prize:
A $500 cash-equivalent prize.
Winning team members will each receive $500 in credits that can be used towards an upgraded Notivize account or Notivize messaging credits. The prize credits will expire on January 20, 2021.

Santa Cruz Works - Best Tech Cares Project (2)

The winning project will addresses issues such as global warming, social injustice, and inequality. Bonus if it is specific to Santa Cruz, issues such as affordable housing, homelessness, water, sea level rise, and transportation.

MLH - Best Domain Registered Through Domain.com

Domain.com provides all the domain services you need from registration to hosting to SSL certificates and beyond.
Prize: Domain.com backpack

MLH - Best UIPath Automation Hack

Build an automation hack using UiPath! Each winning team member will receive a Limited Edition UiPath Branded Backpack!

MLH - Best Use of MongoDB

Create a hack using MongoDB Atlas to host a database in the cloud! Automate the provisioning and deployment process with ease, while focusing all your efforts on your hack. Projects built using MongoDB Atlas will be eligible to win an AirCharge Plus per team member.

MLH - Most Creative Radar.io Hack

Build the most creative hack using Radar's SDKs and APIs for geofencing, location search, and geocoding. Some ideas for location-aware projects include a delivery tracker, campus building locator, and a Find my Friends clone. Winning team members will be eligible to win a Tile Sticker Smart Tracker and a chance to be featured by Radar.