The Impact Innovation Challenge hackathon, a multi-week hackathon from January 18th to Feburary 12th hosted by students from the University of Washington, Seattle, offers college students an opportunity to create meaningful, technical projects around health and accessibility. To see information about the schedule of the hackathon or to learn more about Impact++, please refer to here.

Requirements

Please present a YouTube video (max. length is 5 minutes) that includes a demonstration of your project along with the following information:

  • Research into whether similar solutions exist and how well the solution differs from competitors
  • Relevance to your chosen track
  • Purpose of application
  • Explanation of who benefits from such application

Hackathon Sponsors

Prizes

1 non-cash prize
sample prize
1 winner

Devpost Achievements

Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:

Judges

Impact Innovation Challenge Team

Impact Innovation Challenge Team

Aditya Balasubramanian
Impact++

Judging Criteria

  • Idea
    Demonstrate relevance of creative, original, feasible idea to chosen track and show how well the idea solves a specified problem within the track within project submission.
  • Impact Plan
    Demonstrate research of whether similar solutions exist and how well the solution differs from competitors. Also explain how it would be integrated into society and how many people would benefit. Show practicality (finance, logistics, and aspects).
  • Prototype
    Show technical complexity, thoroughness of implementation, and use of tools and open data sources available.

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