1st Place Overall

First pick at our prize pool featuring various tech gadgets including headphones, smart home products, and more!

Each member will also get a DragonBoard 410C board (sponsored by Qualcomm) and free coworking space at the Brampton Entrepreneur Centre (sponsored by the City of Brampton).

2nd Place Overall

Second pick at our prize pool featuring various tech gadgets including headphones, smart home products, and more!

Each member will also get a DragonBoard 410C board (sponsored by Qualcomm) and free coworking space at the Brampton Entrepreneur Centre (sponsored by the City of Brampton).

3rd Place Overall

Third pick at our prize pool featuring various tech gadgets including headphones, smart home products, and more!

Each member will also get a DragonBoard 410C board (sponsored by Qualcomm) and free coworking space at the Brampton Entrepreneur Centre (sponsored by the City of Brampton).

Best Unconnected Hack

As much as we love connectivity and staying connected, we recognize the value of power autonomy. Show us your best hack that doesn’t use any form of wireless connection! Each member of the winning team will receive an Echo Dot.

Smartest "Unsmart" Hack

This prize is awarded to the team that presents the smartest hack that doesn't involve machine learning or any advanced learning frameworks to achieve its purpose. Each winning member will get a Fire TV Stick.

Best IoT Hack using a Qualcomm Device

The winning team will get one (1) Oculus Quest for the team (which features the Qualcomm Snapdragon!) plus 4 more DragonBoard 410C boards.

Best use of the TELUS CAT-M1 IOT Network (2)

IoT trackers, smart traffic lights, and rain sensors are so 2019. Show us a new and innovative way to harness the power of a Raspberry Pi on Canada’s largest and fastest IoT network.

Each winning team member will get a pair of BEATS SOLO 3 Wireless Headphones, and Raspberry Pi 4 2GB Complete Starter Kit - 32GB Storage.

Huawei Ascend Innovation Award

Use Huawei’s AI Development Board ‘Atlas 200 DK’, which is based on Huawei Ascend 310 AI processor, to build an innovative project with real-world applicability and aligns with Huawei's overall vision of a "better connected world." Each winning team member will receive a Huawei Watch GT.

Best Smart Home Hack

Create a hack that improves homes with tech and matches the ecobee brand as a Smart Home provider

Each hacker will receive an ecobee4 sponsored by ecobee.

Best Community-Focused Hack

We're looking for hacks meant to improve the lives of people and/or the community they live in, such as Brampton! The winning team will get free coworking space at the Brampton Entrepreneur Centre (sponsored by the City of Brampton).

Best Use of PYNQ

Awarded to the team which demonstrates the best use of the pynq platform, capitalizing on the ease of programmability and compute acceleration. The winning team will get PYNQ Z2 boards.

Best Use of Solace PubSub+ Prize

Use Solace PubSub+ Event Broker to stream events & data across cloud, on-prem, and IoT environments. The winning team will each get a Sennheiser HD 4.50 SE Bluetooth Noise-Cancelling Headphones.

Best use of Google Cloud

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 will receive a Google Home Mini.

Best UiPath Automation Hack

Build an automation hack using UiPath! Each winning team member will receive a UiPath/MLH Branded Backpack and an opportunity to interview for a UiPath Internship in 2020 with high recommendation!

Best Domain Registered with Domain.com

Domain.com provides all the domain services you need from registration to hosting to SSL certificates and beyond. Each hacker will receive a FREE domain name and year of domain privacy from Domain.com for their project this weekend and a
Domain.com Backpack.

Best use of MongoDB Atlas

Create a hack using MongoDB Atlas to host a database in the cloud! Automate the provisioning and deployment process with ease, while focusing all your efforts on your hack. Projects built using MongoDB Atlas will be eligible to win an AirCharge Plus.