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Learn

Whether its on your own, with your team, through our workshops (some of which will be taught by industry professionals) , or from our guest speakers, there's an extensive amount of information to absorb in every part of HackTheLib!

Create

Team up or go solo and to create something awesome! Software, hardware, or a combination of both, anything that you have at home works. We encourage participants to use skills they already have, but also take these 3 days to learn something new and implement it to your project.

Although this event is all about learning and creating something cool, competition adds an edge to it like no other. You can compete in any of our 5 categories:
Best Overall, Most Practical/Scalable, Best Impact, Best Original, and Best Design.

$125 in prizes

• Design
  Look into the aesthetics of the application/program. This includes critiquing the natural appeal of the interface (user interface) and the natural interactivity of the interface (user experience) as well as design concepts and their relation to usability.
• Complexity
  Analyze the technical intricacy of the program. Reward original code and dock points for stringing together code by other people (e.g. APIs) and presenting it as their solution.
• Uniqueness
  Dive deeper into the inventiveness of the idea, how did the contestant tried to stand out from the rest of the crowd? A great question to consider would be “Have I seen something like this idea before?” Another would be “what did they do differently?”
• Impact
  Evaluate the real-world impact of the project and how it could be used to help others in the future or solve a problem. This includes the practicality of the project, if it's something that the everyday person can use and benefit from, it has impact.