About the challenge

Welcome to Falconhacks 2022 by Foothill High School (Pleasanton) CS Club. During this exciting 24 hour hackathon participants will make projects based on any premise or tool they want.

In addition, we will be holding workshops from other FHS STEM clubs such as Studio Heart Engine.

Get started

To sign up please join fill out this form. The opening presentation will be 9 AM on 12/10/2022.

After signing up on the form, please join our discord server. This is required

Requirements

What to Build

Participants may build a project using any tools or around any premise that they want. We have included judging criteria however, these are rather flexible depending on skill level etc.

What to Submit

Submission requires a link to a GitHub repository with a full commit history.

Furthermore, teams will be required to give a presentation.

This can be in the form of a video that is 2 minutes or longer or be live via video chat (See rules below for requirements).

If participants prefer to do this via a video call on discord they will be given a time slot for their live presentation.

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Prizes

$150 in prizes

Amazon Giftcards (3)

See rules section for more details.

Devpost Achievements

Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:

Judges

Arnav G.

Arnav G.
President of CS Club

Sean T.

Sean T.
UCLA '26

Lehuy H.

Lehuy H.
Founder @ StudyKit

Raghav M.

Raghav M.
Developer @ StudyKit

Judging Criteria

  • Originality
    How innovative is the idea? Is there a similar project on the internet?
  • UI/UX Experience
    Is the project easy to use? Does it feel polished?
  • Complexity
    Is the idea hard to execute?
  • Usefulness
    How useful is this project? Is there a real-life use case for this?
  • Well-Written Code
    Is the code easy to read and understand? Is there proper formatting and whitespace?
  • Presentation
    Is the project well presented? Are all the features shown in the demo? Are the presenters able to get across all of their ideas?

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