The world's best interdisciplinary hackathon - Hacktech!
The world's best interdisciplinary hackathon, held at Caltech in Pasadena, CA! Meet hackers from all over the world and create projects to solve problems at the intersections of fields ranging from education to games/entertainment using anything from hardware to machine learning, all while having a sensational time!!
Judges

Jay Yuan
Tech Lead Manager at Uber

Anthony Chong
CEO of IKASI

Zach Rivkin
Chief of Staff of 8VC

Claire Ralph
Professor of Computer Science

Grace Park
Software Engineer at Google

Peter Cuy
Software Engineer at Google

Theo Strinopolous
Software Engineer at Google

Tyson Mao
Founder of Hadron Labs

Ashish Mahabal
Senior Computational Scientist in Astrophysics

Rosemary Macedo
Director of Research at Hightree Advisors

Irene Wang
Software Engineer at Facebook

Cathy Ma
Software Engineer at Facebook

Archan Luhar
Software Engineer at Facebook

Aaron Feldman
Software Engineer at Facebook

Ryan Batterman
Software Engineer at Facebook

Robert Eng
Software Engineer at Affinity

Chen Chang
Software Engineer at Google
Judging Criteria
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Usability
How usable is your hack in its current state? Strive to create a functioning project even if it doesn't have a ton of features! -
Interdisciplinary
Does your hack combine principles from across different fields? Live up to our theme and make a hack that explore the intersection of computer science with other fields! -
Creativity
How creative is your hack? Try to approach the problem you are trying to solve from a novel angle! -
Polish
Is your hack polished? Create a hack that looks as great as it functions!