Welcome to Hacking Generation Y!
You'll have thirty hours to team up with other high schoolers to build an amazing product. Listen to incredible speakers share their work, and present in front our amazing panel of judges who represent some of the top companies and startups in Silicon Valley. Enjoy delicious food, win amazing prizes, but most importantly -- learn to code.
We can't wait to see what you'll create!
Age is only an Int.
Eligibility
If you are present at Hacking Generation Y, or have received special permission from us to hack from home, you're eligible.
Requirements
Please submit a description of what your app does, and a link to your product, and a video demo that'll give us a great explanation of how your app works, and what it does.
Prizes
$74,700 in prizes
1st Place
TBA
2nd Place
(5)
TBA
3rd Place
(5)
TBA
Parse
(2)
$5,000 parse credit to winning team. $500 parse credit to every team that uses Parse.
Praxis
(9)
$6000 in scholarships to Praxis for top 6 teams
Pebble
Pebbles to the winning team
Moxtra
Revealed Soon
MIT Launch
Automatic advancement and no fees to a personal interview for the MIT Launch summer entrepreneurship program!
FourSquare
Tour & Lunch @ NYC Office when you're there.
Couchbase
$1000 in cash to your team
1SB
Automatic Internships at 1-student-body
Global Context
$7500 to the team that moves forward Global Context’s mission the best!
PubNub
A professionally-shot video, blog post, and $1,000 PubNub credit to the team with best use of PubNub.
Misfit
Misfit watch to every winning team member.
NameCheap
$100 Namecheap credit to winning team
MUSE Headbands
Up to 5 members. MUSE Headbands for the best hack that uses them.
Devpost Achievements
Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:
How to enter
High School students at Hacking Generation Y can create submissions.
Judges
Shuly Galili
Co-Founder of UpWest Labs
Laurie Stach
Founder of MIT Launch
Manny Fernandez
Co-Founder & CEO of DreamFunded.com, Angel Investor
Chris DiBona
Director of Open Source at Google
Xavier de Ryckel
Co-Founder of Downtown
Amir Shevat
Startup Program Manager at Google
Jinal Dalal
Product Manager, Google
Wayne Carter
Chief Architect of Mobile, Couchbase
Stuart Friedman
CEO, Global Context
Offir Gutelzon
CEO & Co-Founder, Keepy
Devon Crews
Leadership at Citrix. Trailblazer's Woman of The Year Candidate
Rousseau Kazi
Product Manager on Facebook's Search Team
Wendell Brown
StartEngine, MITA Institute
Evan Doll
Co-Founder of Flipboard
Michele Boal
Co-founder and Chief Philanthropy Officer of Coupons.com
Ryan J. Negri
Co-Founder & CEO, Laicos, Angel Investor
Judging Criteria
-
Originality
Is the hack more than just another generic social app? Does it do something entirely novel, or at least take a fresh approach to an old problem? -
Usefulness
Is the hack practical given its target audience? Is it something that the user base would actually use? Does it fulfill a need people have? -
Technical Difficulty
Is the hack technically interesting or difficult? Is it just some lipstick on an API, or were there real technical challenges to surmount? -
Design
Is the hack usable in its current state? Is the user experience smooth? Does everything appear to work? Is it well-designed?
Tell your friends
This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.