Prompt:

"Create software that addresses an issue in first generation low income students such as: financial planning, career opportunities, mental health, community building, or an issue found in your community."

Our Goal

At Project: Empower, our vision is to solve problems in underprivileged communities through code. Through this hackathon, we wish to help aspiring programmers foster there passion for coding and allow them to realize the impact that they can make through programming.

How it Works

Empower Hacks is a hackathon hosted by Project: Empower. It will consist of 3 steps the kickoff meeting, development period, and judging period/closing ceremony. Participants will develop a software project in there teams following the prompt that is given.

•   Sign up / Kickoff

  Join the discord using this link. Also fill out the sign up form here. The prompt and other hackathon information will be covered during the kickoff on our discord.

•   Development

  Teams will have roughly 48 hours from the beginning of the hackathon to create and develop a project.

•   Judging / Closing Ceremony

  Submit your project by the end of the development period to be judged by the panel of judges. Winners will be announced at the closing ceremony where there will be various activites and speeches. Prizes will also be given then.

$112,750 in prizes

• Impact
  Impact Factor on Community/Students/Group
• Design/Usability
  
• Sustainablity/Next Steps
  Does this project have a life/potential after today?
• Clarity
  Clarity in Presentation
• Open Source
  Extra points if code is open source
• Novelty
  How novel/new is the idea?