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Latest Devpost Hackathons

By Jessica
The latest hackathons from Devpost are here. Tons of great opportunities to collaborate and put your skills to the test, building real-life solutions with the latest technology.

As a bonus, you'll also get a shot at some great prizes, including Teslas, cash, internship opportunities, not to mention, a great way to boost your resume.

Hack to the Future 2020
  • Goal: Hack for good and use Finastra APIs to accelerate transformation. Select one of the three themes: hacking systemic inequalities, embrace technology-enabled change, and/or hacking through COVID-19 and make an impact with your innovative projects
  • Prizes: $37,500 prize pool, including cash, incubation opportunities, internship opportunities and more
  • Deadline: November 22nd
  • Details + Registration: https://bit.ly/HTFuture20u

The HERE Map Data Hackathon
  • Goal: Join and start building solutions using HERE Data Layers and HERE Location Services that help the public, local communities and businesses to overcome challenges from health and social care to education and infrastructure.
  • Prizes: $8,500 prize pool
  • Deadline: December 1st
  • Details + Registration: http://bit.ly/HERE20u

Reminders:

TypingDNA Hackathon
  • Goal: Innovate and create anything you can think of as long as your project includes TypingDNA API calls. Show us what you’d build given that you CAN recognize people based on their typing.
  • Prizes: $110,000 in prizes
  • Deadline: October 31
  • Details + Registration: https://bit.ly/TypingDNA20u
2020 Developer Circles Community Challenge
  • Goal: Become the teacher and put your own innovative spin on developer education by creating written tutorials that showcase the capabilities of Facebook technologies.
  • Prizes: Up to $133,000 in total prizes
  • Deadline: October 26, 2020
  • Details + Registration: https://bit.ly/DevC2020u
monday.com Build it Better Challenge
  • Goal: Build a new monday App that allows teams to improve collaboration, communication, teamwork, or simply make daily work a little more joyful in one of the required categories (CRM, Software Development, Construction and field workers)
  • Prizes: $84,000 prize pool, including Teslas, promotion, consultation and more
  • Submission Period: Sep 23 – Nov 30
  • Details + Registration: http://bit.ly/mondayApp20u
Quick Base Virtual Hackathon
  • Goal: Calling on creative problem solvers to address today’s biggest challenges using Quick Base’s low-code platform.
  • Prizes: $250,000 prize pool, including cash, promotion and more
  • Deadline: November 16
  • Details + Registration: http://bit.ly/QBHack20u
Alexa Skills Challenge: Beyond Voice
  • Goal: Build (or update) an Alexa skill that uses APL for Audio (beta), APL, motion and sensing APIs OR Alexa Web API for Games to add rich audio, visuals, or motion to your experience.
  • Prizes: $97,000 prize pool including a trophy, cash, participation prizes, and more
  • Deadline: November 17
  • Details + Registration: http://bit.ly/AlexaBV20u
Please reach out to cassie@devpost.com with any questions

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