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Devpost Hackathon Opportunities

By Jessica

Devpost has another batch of great hackathon opportunities that just launched.

Not only can you use them to learn new skills, collaborate and innovate, but there are some awesome prizes like meetings with top companies, speaking opportunities and even a Tesla X!

Here are the details:

Amazon Skills Challenge: Alexa Conversations

- Goal: Build (or update) and publish a custom Alexa skill in the U.S. Skill Store that integrates the new AI-driven Alexa Conversations dialog manager. Note: See Official Rules for full eligibility requirements.

- Prizes: $101,000 in prizes, including participation prizes, cash, promotion and more

- Deadline: September 14

- Details + Registration: https://bit.ly/AlexaConvo20s

 

Facebook Hackathons

- Goal: Build projects for one of three tracks: AI, AR, Messaging

- Prizes: Over $20,000 in total prizes

- Deadline: September 7

- Details + Registration: https://bit.ly/FB2020H3s

 

Snap Kit Developer Challenge

- Goal: We’re calling on you to build something great, using at least one of our many Snap Kit developer tools. That’s why this challenge is searching for the best uses of Snap Kit in the following categories: Best Use of Dynamic Lenses, Best Use of Bitmoji, Best Design, Innovation Award, Best Overall Use of Snap Kit.

- Prizes: $10,000 USD prize pool, including cash and promotion

- Deadline: October 5

- Details + Registration: https://bit.ly/SnapKit2020s

 

Palo Alto Networks Automation Rising SOAR Hackathon

- Goal: Build a security playbook for the Cortex XSOAR Marketplace that enables automated orchestration of end-to-end security workflows, from triaging alerts to incident investigation, ticket management, and threat response.

- Prizes: $60,000 prize pool, including speaking opportunity at Palo Alto Networks Ignite 2020, cash, promotion, and sponsor prizes from Google, AWS & more

- Deadline: September 29

- Details + Registration: https://bit.ly/AutoRising20

 

monday Apps Challenge: Dream it, Build it

- Goal: Build a new monday App that allows teams to improve collaboration, communication, teamwork, or simply make daily work a little more joyful.

- Prizes: $171,590 USD prize pool, including a Tesla X, Zero Gravity Flight, directed donations and more (see website for details)

- Deadline: August 31

- Details + Registration: https://bit.ly/monday2020s

 

3rd Annual AWS Hackathon for Good

- Goal: The AWS Hackathon for Good challenges developers all over the world to build (or update) an extension or plugin for VS Code, Eclipse IDE, or IntelliJ IDE that improves the workflow of developers who are maintaining a COBOL application. Opt-in Categories include: Everyone Loves Automation, Outside of the Box, and Why Didn’t I Think of That

- Prizes: Engraved Hackathon for Good Championship Belt (to also be displayed at the annual AWS public sector summit), promotion and more.

- Deadline: August 31

- Details + Registration: https://bit.ly/AWSCobol20s

 

(Reminder) AWS Data Exchange

- Goal: Build (or update) a data-driven solution that tells a story by employing at least one of the categories using at least two AWS services and at least one of the 3rd-party data products from AWS Data Exchange providers.

- Categories: Data Visualization, Data Analysis,Data and Machine Learning

- Prizes: Over $35,000 in prizes

- Deadline: August 24

- Details + Registration: https://bit.ly/AWSde20u

 

(Reminder) PyTorch Summer Hackathon

- Goal: Build projects using PyTorch in one of the three categories: PyTorch Developer Tools, Web/Mobile Applications powered by PyTorch, PyTorch Responsible AI Development Tools

- Prizes: Over $25,000 in prizes

- Deadline: August 25

- Details + Registration: https://bit.ly/PyTorch20u

 

Please feel free to reach out to cassie@devpost.com with any questions.

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