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12 months ago

Prizes, Prizes, and more Prizes!

As if just building cool software solutions and taking your graph knowledge to the next level wasn’t enough incentive for you, here’s a reminder of the prize potential for eligible participants:

Grand Prize 

  • $250k USD

Most Impactful 

  • First Place $100k USD
  • Second Place $50k USD
  • Third Place $25k USD

Most Innovative 

  • First Place $100k USD
  • Second Place $50k USD
  • Third Place $25k USD

Most Ambitious

  • First Place $100k USD
  • Second Place $50k USD
  • Third Place $25k USD

Most Applicable 

  • First Place $100k USD
  • Second Place $50k USD
  • Third Place $25k USD

Most Popular

  • $20k USD 

Women Who Graph 

  • $30k USD (Only open to teams that declare they are an all-women team)

Partner Employee Prizes (Awarded to a Partner Employee Submission)

  • First Place $10,000 USD donation to their charity of choice
  • Second Place $6,000 USD donation to their charity of choice
  • Third Place $4,000 USD donation to their charity of choice

 

This list, along with an important note on multiple prize eligibility can be found in the Hackathon Rules. 

You will need an account of TigerGraph Cloud in order to compete in the challenge - this is where you will build your solution. Opening a TigerGraph Cloud account takes less than 10 minutes and is completely free. Note: Use the email you use for Devpost to ensure your TG Cloud account can access everything it needs for the hackathon.

https://tgcloud.io/

As a reminder, here is the main requirement for the challenge:

  • Select a problem statement from the list or choose your own. Your task is to use TigerGraph’s graph analytics platform to uncover transformative solutions to a real world problem you are passionate about.
  • Demo video. Your video should be under 3 minutes, include a demo of how your solution works, and highlight your novel idea.
  • Code. Provide a URL and access to your GitHub code repository. Your repository should include all your relevant project code and a README with getting started instructions that allow others to test your project (here is an example). Provide access by making your code public or sharing access with devposttesting and TigerGraph-MDC GitHub accounts. 
  • Write-Up. Provide a written defense of your project, explaining its strength in each of the four judging criteria (see Judging and Criteria in the Rules). Provide supporting facts and statistics as appropriate. The response for each criterion may be up to 250 words. The four criteria are:
    • Impactfulness - for solving a real-world problem
    • Innovativeness - for use of Graph
    • Ambitiousness - for the scale and complexity of the Graph
    • Applicability - for adoption in the real world

If you missed it, here is the recording and the slides of the recent session called Submission 101: Set yourself up for success.
Recording | Slides

Good luck and happy building