Girls Hoo Hack is a virtual 48-hour hackathon hosted by Girls Who Code at UVA that aims to foster a community of diverse thought and skill. Coders of all levels of experience have the opportunity to work together with teams and mentors, attend educational workshops, and code action-oriented projects that reflect innovation, diverse perspectives, and empowerment. We focus on decreasing the gender disparity in the computing field and encourage the participation of all women and women supporters.

Hackathon Sponsors

Prizes

$22,652 in prizes

Best Overall First Place

Amazon Echo Dot and a year of Wolfram|One Personal Edition plus a one-year subscription to Wolfram|Alpha Pro ($375) for each member

Best Overall Second Place

Fidget Spinner Leather Case for Airpods and a year of Wolfram|One Personal Edition plus a one-year subscription to Wolfram|Alpha Pro ($375) for each member

Best Female Empowerment Hack

Girl Develop It Memberships ($2000 each) and $25 for each member

Best Female Empowerment Hack Second Place

Color LED Bluetooth Speaker and a year of Wolfram|One Personal Edition plus a one-year subscription to Wolfram|Alpha Pro ($375) for each member

Best Meme Hack

Oyster Plushie, 'What do you meme?' game, and a year of Wolfram|One Personal Edition plus a one-year subscription to Wolfram|Alpha Pro ($375) for each member

Best Education Hack

Lap Desk and a year of Wolfram|One Personal Edition plus a one-year subscription to Wolfram|Alpha Pro ($375) for each member

Best Social Good

Watch for a Cause and a year of Wolfram|One Personal Edition plus a one-year subscription to Wolfram|Alpha Pro ($375)for each member
$100 for a charity of the team's choice

Best Beginner

LED Keyboard, Wireless Mouse, and a year of Wolfram|One Personal Edition plus a one-year subscription to Wolfram|Alpha Pro ($375) for each member

Best Community

$10 Gift Cards and a year of Wolfram|One Personal Edition plus a one-year subscription to Wolfram|Alpha Pro ($375) for each member

Best Live Demo

$10 Gift Cards and a year of Wolfram|One Personal Edition plus a one-year subscription to Wolfram|Alpha Pro ($375) for each member

Best Use of Google Cloud (2)

Build your hackathon project with a suite of secure storage, powerful compute, and integrated data analytics products provided by Google Cloud. See full list of products here: g.co/cloud. Each winning team member located in the US will receive a Google Cloud Swag Bag complete with a beanie, pillow, journal, socks and lanyards. International winners will receive a Google branded backpack.

Best Domain Registered with Domain.com

Register a .tech domain name using Domain.com during the weekend. Each team may submit one entry per person on the team. Each winning team member will receive a PowerSquare Qi wireless phone charger.

Most Creative Use of Twilio

Twilio allows you to incorporate mobile messaging, phone calls and a ton of other awesome communication features right into your hackathon project using web service APIs. Are you building an e-commerce website and want to send text notifications or email confirmations once an order is completed? Or maybe your application needs to verify users based on their mobile numbers? Twilio makes all this possible and more. Build a hack that simplifies your life using any one of Twilio’s APIs for a chance to win a Twilio Swag Box and GameGo Console for you and each of your teammates!

Best Web Monetization Project

Coil is all about providing better ways to access and reward the creators, publishers and platforms that you love. Coil members get to view web monetized sites while streaming micropayments directly to the website owner, or in this case, you! In turn, you can react to payments in real time by displaying a thank-you message, unlocking bonus content, features and so much more! The possibilities are endless. Build a web monetized hack using Coil for a chance to win an Anker - PowerCore Quick Charge Portable Charger, exclusive Coil pin and a $60 coil credit redemption card! Bonus points for originality and creativity!

Best Space App Powered by Space Force

The sky is not the limit! Try your hand at making a space-themed application for a chance to win a wireless Bluetooth speaker for you and your team from the U.S. Space Force! We’re looking for amazing solutions to any space-related problems you can imagine. For any sci-fi enthusiast, this is the perfect opportunity to push the limits of your creativity by building the technology of tomorrow, today. We can’t wait to see the solutions you build!

Please note: the majority of your team members must be located in the United States to qualify.

Devpost Achievements

Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:

Judges

GHH Judges

GHH Judges

Judging Criteria

  • Creativity and Design
    The project should showcase originality and uniqueness, as well as reflect creative thinking.
  • Implementation
    The problem should be solved effectively and efficiently.
  • Impact
    The project should be applicable to a real-world problem and its solution should have a positive impact.
  • Presentation/demo
    The team provides a brief overview of the problem they are trying to solve. The team walks through their project and explains what it accomplishes. All team members play a role in the demo and speak in an engaging manner.
  • Functionality
    The deliverable works as intended.
  • Learning
    In their Devpost, the team should include their technical background prior to the project as well as what technical components they learned throughout the project.
  • Technical Difficulty
    The project demonstrates an effort to showcase a wide variety of complex and innovative technologies used
  • Collaboration
    The work was split equally between members of the team and working together made the team stronger. In order to promote teamwork, those who work alone will receive no points in this category

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