About the hackathon

Join Grizzly Hacks for our 4th annual hackathon for GGC students! We aim to create a safe, fun and innovative space where students can learn and try out new technologies while getting help from peers and mentors! The theme for this year is FIFA World Cup since it will be hosted in Atlanta in 2026!

About the club

HackGGC IV is ran by Grizzly Hacks @GGC. It is a student led organization at Georgia Gwinnett College that is enthusiastic about helping students build real-world projects and skills by attending hackathons and workshops! 

The goal of this hackathon is to create a space for local students to learn new technologies and methodologies and build a project and network with peers.

You should join if you're a beginner, intermediate, or advanced so that you can have more experience using software and frameworks that are prevalent in the industry today!

Requirements

What to Build

There are 5 tracks that participants can choose from:

  1. Hispanic Challlenge: Build a project to translate commonly used GGC resources, or a mobile application or even a chat bot using hugging face 
  2. Digital Media: Harness your creativity to design a mockup website, a video ad, merch design, or grizzly hacks mascot 
  3. Cybersecurity: Put your security skills to test by hacking some hardware or capturing some flags 
  4. Data Analyst: Put together a dashboard to display insight surrounding fifa world cup, utilize AI and ML to make predictions and forecasts 
  5. Software Developer: Utilize your programming skills to build a game, a web application or a chat bot.

What to Submit

You will be using DevPost for submissions. Items to include:

1. Project Name

2. Names of the group members

3. A description of the project

4. Motivation/Inspiration for the project idea

5. Difficulies that you came across and things you learned

6. Technologies used within the project

7. Submit a github link with a readme that should include all the same information (Copy/Paste from here)

8. A screenshot(s) of the project 

Hackathon Sponsors

Prizes

7 non-cash prizes
Best Overall
1 winner

To be determined

Best Hispanic Challenge
1 winner

To be determined

Best Game Design
1 winner

To be determined

Best Solo
1 winner

To be determined

Best FIFA Theme
1 winner

To be determined

Best Beginner
1 winner

To be determined

Best Potential
1 winner

To be determined

Devpost Achievements

Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:

Judges

Celeste Echols
Grizzly Hacks President

Cengiz Gunay
Grizzly Hacks Advisor

Anca Doloc-Mihu
Grizzly Hacks Advisor

Miranda Darlington
Former President

Peter Okolocha
Former President

Shaun Mitchel
Former Vice-President

Claudio

Judging Criteria

  • Technology
    How technically impressive was the hack? Was the technical problem the team tackled difficult? Did it use a particularly clever technique or did it use many different components? Did the technology involved make you go "Wow"?
  • Design
    Did the team put thought into the user experience? How well designed is the interface? How beautiful the CSS or graphics are? For a hardware project, how good is the human-computer interaction(e.g. is it easy to use or does it use a cool interface?)
  • Completion
    Does the hack work? Did the team achieve everything they wanted? Is it just an idea? How flushed out is it?
  • Learning
    Did the team stretch themselves? Did they try to learn something new? What kind of projects have they worked on before? If a team which always does virtual reality projects decides to do a mobile app instead, that exploration should be rewarded.

Questions? Email the hackathon manager

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