HopHacks is the bi-annual hackathon hosted at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. This event brings engineers, designers, and entrepreneurs together to explore new ideas, compete for prizes, and create amazing applications. For 36 hours, students work in teams of up to 4 to bring a software or hardware idea to life.


Teams start working on their hacks (at 9:00 PM) after the Friday evening kickoff event and continue working until Sunday morning (9:00 AM). All submissions MUST be made on Devpost.

All of the prizes, including sponsored prizes, will be judged and announced at the presentation.

See more at https://www.hophacks.com.

Eligibility

Any university student, regardless of university, may participate. Graduate and undergraduate students from all departments and divisions are welcome. 

You must register online and receive email confirmation before attending. Please be prepared to show your University ID upon check-in.

Requirements

At the end of the hackathon, your team can submit a project on DevPost. Your project will then be judged during your science fair style presentation during the presentation time.

Hackathon Sponsors

Prizes

$2,592 in prizes

1st Place Overall

Awarded to the team with the highest overall score from the judges.

2nd Place Overall

Awarded to the team with the second highest overall score from the judges.

3rd Place Overall

Awarded to the team with the third highest overall score from the judges.

Bloomberg: Hack that Best Supports Philanthropy or a Philanthropic Cause

Mebo Robots for each team member of the winning team.

Best Use of Capital One's API, Nessie

$200 Amazon Gift Cards for each member of the winning team.

JHMI TIC: Best Healthcare Related Project

A drone will be awarded to the winning team.

Accenture: 2017 Tech Vision

Hack that best represents the Accenture 2017 Tech Vision.

Prize: nice Accenture swag for each team member

Google: Best Use of Google's API or Product (3)

Awesome Google swag bag for each member of the team.

Semester.ly: Rookie Award

More than half of the team members are first time hackers (HopHacks Spring 2017 is their first hackathon).

Prize: The Settlers of Catan

John Snow labs

Best use of John Snow Labs Turnkey data set. Winners will receive clean data from John Snow Labs entire dataset catalog for 1 year, curated 3 datasets specifically for the needs of winning team, and blog, social media mentions of the winner.

Datasets available:
Healthcare:
Billing
Census
Cost
Payments
Population Health
Providers
Outcomes
Guidelines
Measures
Terminology Waqar
World (geospatial)
Hospitals
Physicians

Life Sciences:
Devices
Drugs
Food
Genomics

EDIT: PLEASE COME SEE JASON IN THE HOPHACKS HEADQUARTERS FOR ACCESS TO THE DATASETS

#HackHarassment

Use your tech skills for good and hack online harassment! Build a software solution that can help reduce the frequency and/or severity of online harassment. Members of the winning team receive Hack Harassment Battery Packs!

Best Domain Name from Domain.com

Domain.com Swag Bags.

Amazon Web Services - Best Use of AWS

1 TB Hard Drives

Devpost Achievements

Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:

Judges

David Troy

David Troy
CEO of 410Labs

Avi Rubin

Avi Rubin
Professor of Computer Science at Johns Hopkins University

Dan Roche

Dan Roche
Johns Hopkins Technological Ventures Mentor in Residence

Steve Feldman

Steve Feldman
VP of Engineering at Contrast Security

Anton Dahbura

Anton Dahbura
Director of Johns Hopkins Information Security Institute

Sean Murphy

Sean Murphy
Founder of Full Stack Data Science

Jim Jagielski

Jim Jagielski
Sr. Director of Tech Fellows Program at Capital One

Gorkem Sevinc

Gorkem Sevinc
CTO of emocha Mobile Health and Managing Director of Johns Hopkins Medicine Technology Innovation Center

Dwight Raum

Dwight Raum
CTO of Johns Hopkins Hospital and Executive Director of Johns Hopkins Medicine Technology Innovation Center

Alexander Hall

Alexander Hall
Software Engineer at Johns Hopkins Medicine Technology Innovation Center

Kasim Ahmad

Kasim Ahmad
Johns Hopkins Technological Ventures Mentor in Residence

Patricio Simari

Patricio Simari
Computer Science Assistant Professor at Catholic University of America

Gregory Kriston

Gregory Kriston
Senior Software Engineerin at Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory

Yuriy Shames

Yuriy Shames
Electrical Engineer at Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory

Yair Flicker
SmartLogic, Founder of TeamPassword

Brian Razzaque

Brian Razzaque
CEO / SocialToaster

Judging Criteria

  • Polish
    Judges will rate how polished your product and code looks, so make sure you submit the neat stuff!
  • Usefulness
    Judges will rate how well your product fills its intended need.
  • Creativity
    Judges will rate how unique and innovative your idea is.
  • Technical Difficulty
    Judges will rate how advanced your design and execution is, so don't be modest!

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