Name: Hack the 6ix 2022
Start: 2022-08-19T20:00:00.000-04:00
End: 2022-08-21T09:30:00.000-04:00
Location: Hack the 6ix 2022

Presenting Hack the 6ix Hybrid

Just as our society shifts out of fully virtual and into hybrid in-person life, so is Hack the 6ix 2022. For this year, Hack the 6ix is working to accommodate the widest range of hackers in location and preferences. To do this, Hack the 6ix is hosting a virtual venue and hacking throughout the weekend for all with an optional in-person venue on August 20th held at Wealthsimple Offices in the heart of Toronto. The HT6 team is actively working toward providing an equal hackathon experience for all hackers, regardless of virtual or in-person.

Vision

As a hackathon organized by students from universities across Canada, we hope to bring together the nation’s talent by providing an interactive environment where attendees can be free to innovate and create under the guidance of our industry mentors. We aim to continue to successfully expand our organization to provide more learning opportunities for students as well as more corporate exposure for companies.

Commitment to Diversity

Hack the 6ix is committed to being an advocate for diversity by creating an inclusive and equitable environment for innovation. In 2020 and 2021 we took good strides towards empowering more participation of women in technology through keynote speakers, panels with company representatives, workshops, and networking sessions. We want to continue with the same energy and hope to inspire more young women and underrepresented groups to explore careers in the technology sector and help them achieve their full potential.

Requirements

Entries are considered if and only if submitted via Devpost before the announced closing time.

Along with your submission on Devpost, you need to submit a video that demos your hack. Submissions without a video will be disqualified. The guidelines for the video are as follows:

Preliminary Judging:
Guidelines for Hack Submissions

Max 4 minutes in length
- Must be in English
- Tell us what your hack does
- Demo your hack
- THIS LIMIT WILL BE STRICTLY ENFORCED
Guiding Questions
- What made you want to build this hack?
- What was the most challenging part of the hack?
- What is your tech stack?
- Refer to Judging Criteria to optimize what should and should not be in the video
Where to submit?
- Devpost - Video Link
  - Make sure your video URL is from a platform that Devpost supports (YouTube, Vimeo, or Youku). If your video is not hosted on one of these platforms, you'll receive a red error message that says, "Must be a valid YouTube, Vimeo, or Youku url."
  - REMEMBER TO MAKE THE VIDEO PUBLIC
- Link to the GitHub repo with the source code
Select any prize categories you want to be considered for
Ensure that you are submitting to the Hack the 6ix 2022 Event
- Verify that Hack the 6ix 2022 appears on your project page after you submit! If it is not, YOUR SUBMISSION WILL NOT BE JUDGED!
Do NOT cross submit your project
- Doing so will result in immediate disqualification
Comply with all event rules in addition to the MLH Code of Conduct

Note: Don’t spend too much time editing the videos. Production quality of your videos won’t affect the judging (unless we absolutely can’t see or hear your video).

Video-making best practices from Devpost

If your team is willing, we'd love to see a team picture - which you can submit through file upload!

Finalist Judging
The top 8 teams from the Preliminary Judging round will present a live demo of their hack infront of a panel of judges. There the top three teams will receive prizes!

Hackathon Sponsors

Prizes

$CAD14,794 in prizes

Hack the 6ix: First Place

Please refer to the judging criteria on our home page!

Prizes: Nintendo Switches for each team member + 10 x Staples Studio Membership Pass for each team member

Hack the 6ix: Second Place

Please refer to the judging criteria on our home page!

Prizes: Beats Fit Pro for each team member + 10 x Staples Studio Membership Pass for each team member

Hack the 6ix: Third Place

Please refer to the judging criteria on our home page!

Prizes: Mechanical keyboard + mouse (model TBA) for each team member + Free Week of Staples Studio Membership Pass (5 days) for each team member

Buf: Best use of Protocol Buffers

Buf is changing the way that the industry works with APIs by building a better way to work with Protocol Buffers. We believe that REST is no longer enough and Protocol Buffers (Protobuf) are needed to move the industry forward. We’re challenging you to learn and use this new technology. The winning team will be rewarded based on the best use of Protocol Buffers in your project.

**Bonus points for the use of any of Buf’s products (e.g., the Buf CLI).**

Helpful Resources can be found on the hacker guide

Prizes: $2,500 cash prize to the winning team and an interview with Buf

Wealthsimple Foundation Challenge

The financial tools of the wealthy should be accessible to everybody. This challenge is to address the stigma that investing, saving, and budgeting is only for privileged populations.

Your job is to create an inclusive financial product that makes it easier for folks in marginalized communities (such as newcomers to Canada, Indigenous peoples, and modest income families) to unlock the benefits that come from financial literacy and access to traditional financial tools.

Prizes: Resume and LinkedIn Feedback session with the Wealthsimple's lead of early talent and campus recruitment, a coffee chat with the Wealthsimple's director of talent acquisition, and a challenge showcase on Wealthsimple's social media page.

Staples Studio Challenge

The best hack is a project that Staples Canada can implement TODAY to help people work smarter, learn more and grow everyday.

Staples Canada is a one-stop shop for all working and learning needs, so the best hack will make those sales opportunities accessible at different touchpoints or stages across the user experience.

As part of your hack, we ask you to leverage existing products and services that Staples Canada and Staples Professional offer. Participants MUST use at least 2 services as part of their project to be eligible for a reward. And we encourage you to come up with partnership ideas wherever possible.

We are open to all innovative ideas: will this be a video game? A dynamic digital signage? An e-commerce platform? Surprise us!

Additional Resources can be found in the hacker guide.

Prizes: 10 Staples Studio Passes for each team member.
Notebooks, water bottles, and others for each team member.

Hack the 6ix: Best Design

The Hack the 6ix Design team will decide on the best-designed submission, focusing on aesthetics, user experience and intuitiveness.