Best Hack for Student Food Insecurity

According to a study by Temple University's Hope Center for College, Community, and Justice, 45% of college students surveyed deal with food insecurity. We encourage your imagination to develop anything that can help reduce this number and give more options/tools for students to get access to food.

Up to 4 team members will receive:
• HyperX Cloud II – Red Gaming Headsets
• $250 DigitalOcean credit per team
• 1-year subscription to Wolfram|One Personal Edition
• 1-year subscription to Wolfram|Alpha Pro

This prize is kindly sponsored by our tiered sponsors, HyperX, DigitalOcean, and Wolfram Language

Best Hack for Art & Music

This hack is open-ended, so we encourage you to use your imagination to develop anything that incorporates art or music. Entertaining forms of art and music have been especially helpful with teaching new skills or broadening ideas. Feel free to get creative!

Up to 4 team members will receive:
• Otamatone
• $250 DigitalOcean credit per team
• 1-year subscription to Wolfram|One Personal Edition
• 1-year subscription to Wolfram|Alpha Pro

This prize is kindly sponsored by our tiered sponsors and DigitalOcean + Wolfram Language

Best Hack for Healthcare

This award will be given to the best healthcare hack. The category is open ended and we encourage you to think about ways to boost people's health either mentally or physically!

Up to 4 team members will receive:
• Google Cloud Backpack
• $250 DigitalOcean credit per team
• 1-year subscription to Wolfram|One Personal Edition
• 1-year subscription to Wolfram|Alpha Pro

This prize is kindly sponsored by our tiered sponsors, GoogleCloud, DigitalOcean, and Wolfram Language

Best Hack for Connections

This award will be given to the best connections hack. Develop anything related to building connections amongst people whether that means virtually, in-person, or more.

Up to 4 team members will receive:
• USB Microphone, TONOR Computer Cardioid Condenser PC Gaming Mic with Tripod Stand & Pop Filter
• $250 DigitalOcean credit per team
• 1-year subscription to Wolfram|One Personal Edition
• 1-year subscription to Wolfram|Alpha Pro

This prize is kindly sponsored by our tiered sponsors, WolframAlpha, and Digital Ocean

Best Hack for Cozy Theme UI/UX

This award will be given to the best designed user interface and experience that relates to WaffleHacks' cozy and warm theme for 2022. You may submit a working prototype for this category.

Up to 4 team members will receive:

• GAOMON S620 6.5 x 4 Inches Graphics Tablet
• $250 DigitalOcean credit per team

This prize is kindly sponsored by our tiered sponsors, and DigitalOcean

Best Diversity & Inclusion Hack

WaffleHacks aims toward providing a safe space for all hackers in order to foster diversity and inclusion. This award will be given to the team with the best hack toward helping to increase and support people within the tech sphere.

Up to 4 team members will receive:
• MOFII Wireless Retro Keyboard with Round Keycaps and Mouse Combo
• $250 DigitalOcean credit per team
• 1-year subscription to Wolfram|One Personal Edition
• 1-year subscription to Wolfram|Alpha Pro

This prize is kindly sponsored by our tiered sponsors and DigitalOcean + Wolfram Language

Best Beginner Hack

Your first time attending a hackathon or creating a hack? Then this track is for you! At least half of your team must be first-time hackers. Create your first project and learn while you're here!

Up to 4 team members will receive:
• Himalayan Glow Salt Lamp with Dimmer Switch
• $250 DigitalOcean credit per team

This prize is kindly sponsored by our tiered sponsors and DigitalOcean

Best Use of Data Hack

The team that best uses data for meaningful impact within one of the four categories: food insecurity, art and music, healthcare, or connections. To show meaningful impact, the team should indicate an relevant objective and tell a story with the data that would compels others to action.

Up to 4 team members will receive:
• WaffleHacks x Belmont Data Collaborative Yeti Tumbler
• $250 DigitalOcean credit per team

This prize is kindly sponsored by our tiered sponsors and DigitalOcean

Contest/Raffle Winners

WaffleHacks will also be hosting a variety of contest/raffles this year. These include

• Team Photo Raffle
• Waffle Drawing Contest
• Tetris Tournament

For all the above contests/raffles, the winner will receive a CROWNFUL Mini Waffle Maker Machine.

We will also have the following:
• Workshop Attendance Raffle
• **Special event to be annouced**

For the two raffles above, winners will receive a HyperX Cloud II – Red Gaming Headset

Best Use of DeSo

$100 worth of $DESO coin & an exclusive DeSo Tumbler
DeSo is the official Web3 sponsor of the MLH Hackathon League and the first Layer 1 blockchain custom-built for decentralized social media applications. While a blockchain like Avalanche costs $0.50+ to store just a 200-character post, the DeSo blockchain is built with custom indexing and storage optimizations which make it 10,000X cheaper to store social content on-chain! In order to qualify for the contest, you must launch an app that writes to the DeSo blockchain and implements DeSo identity. While social media apps are a great fit for DeSo, you can also build financial apps, marketplaces, and more on the DeSo blockchain. For inspiration on project ideas, you can check out some of the existing 200+ apps already live on DeSo at Bithunt.com as well as our DeSo APIs. The Best Use of DeSo gets $100 worth of $DESO coin & an exclusive DeSo branded tumbler!

Best Use of Auth0

Exclusive Auth0 Swag made for MLH
Auth0 wants your applications to be secure! Use any of the Auth0 APIs for a chance to win some exclusive swag, including a Miir 12oz tumbler, Rubiks Cube, and sticker! Why spend hours building features like social sign-in, Multi-Factor Authentication, and passwordless log-in when you can enable them through Auth0 straight out of the box? Save some time on your hack and set yourself up for a big win. It doesn't take much to get started. Auth0 is free to try with up to 7,000 free active users and unlimited log-ins. Make your new account today!

Most Creative Use of Twilio

Twilio Swag Box & GameGo Console
Twilio allows you to incorporate mobile messaging, phone calls and a ton of other awesome communication features right into your hackathon project using a web service API. Are you building an e-commerce website and want to send text notifications or email confirmations once an order is completed? Or maybe you'd like to verify users based on their mobile numbers? Twilio makes all this possible and more. Build a hack that simplifies your life using any Twilio API for a chance to win some awesome prizes! Get started with $50 in free credit!

Best Domain Name from Domain.com

PowerSquare Qi Wireless Phone Charger
Register a .Tech domain name using Domain.com during the weekend for your chance to win a PowerSquare Qi Wireless Phone Charger for you and each member of your team! Each team may submit one entry per person on the team. The more creative the domain the better!

Best Blockchain Project Using Hedera

Glorious Modular Compact Mechanical Keyboard
Hedera is a next generation blockchain technology that’s accessible from familiar programming languages like Java and JavaScript. Their goal? To make Web3 development even more accessible to hackers like you! Build a project on Hedera's test network for a chance to win amazing Glorious Modular Compact Mechanical Keyboards for you and your team!

Dream Big and Create More Cheers with AB InBev

Anker Wireless Charger Bundle
AB InBev is all about bringing people together and creating more cheers for a better world! Using whatever tools, hardware and/or software at your disposal, build a hack that leads us into a brighter future for a chance to win some amazing prizes for you and your team.
Remember, AB inBev is looking for innovative projects that can possibly change the world in a positive way! We can't wait to see what you come up with.

Honorable Mention in Student Food Insecurity (2)

Honorable Mention in Art & Music (2)

Honorable Mention in Healthcare (2)

Honorable Mention in Connections (2)

Honorable Mention in Cozy Theme UI/UX (2)

Honorable Mention in Diversity & Inclusion (2)

Honorable Mention in Beginner Hacks (2)

Honorable Mention in Use of Data