vsHacks is a beginner-friendly hackathon open to all high school students in the Greater Vancouver area. It's an excellent opportunity for participants to show off their skills, learn new skills, and meet like-minded individuals. From July 11-12, teams of 1 to 4 people will collaborate to build and present a project from scratch. Throughout the event, the vsHacks team will host workshops and fun events such as party games in the Discord server.

GET STARTED

To get started, register for this hackathon and join our Discord. Many important announcements will be made in Discord. 

Additional information can be found on our website.

Requirements

WHAT TO BUILD

As this hackathon is very beginner-friendly and open-ended, there are no particular restrictions on what projects can be submitted. However, this year's theme is TBD (to be announced on the day of the event), and projects relating to it will be eligible for a special prize! 

WHAT TO SUBMIT

  • Provide an easy way to access your project for judging and testing (e.g., a public website or GitHub repository). Code must be open source.
  • A Video (posted on Youtube or Google Drive), this should include all information that is important to your project, as this will be account for the majority of your score. MAX 5 minutes.
    • Please explain your code in your video! (doesn't have to go line by line, just need a structural and intuitive explanation)
  • Your code (can be submitted as GitHub link, or uploaded as a .ZIP file)
  • A brief paragraph describing your project (capabilities and background)
  • A brief paragraph on your challenges and successes

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Prizes

7 non-cash prizes
First Place Prize
1 winner

$200 gift card (per group) and
$300 in featherless.ai tokens

Runner-up Prize
1 winner

$100 gift card (per group)
1 With Our Compliments certificate from Panago (2 medium pizzas, 2 salads, and a 2L of pop)

Most Creative
1 winner

$50 Giftcard (per group)

Most popular
1 winner

(cannot be first place or runner up)
community vote $50 gift card per group

.xyz Sponsor Award
250 winners

one .xyz domain free for first year

Featherless.ai Sponsor Award
100 winners

100 seats max for one month of Featherless premium ($25 / month)

PERFECT Sponsor Award
200 winners

A package of 500 free API units

Devpost Achievements

Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:

Judges

Daniel Lei
Lead Organizer

Minglang Chen
Organizer

Prakshal Doshi

Prakshal Doshi
SRE @ Apple

Advitya Gemawat
ML Engineer @ Microsoft

Nicole Seah

Nicole Seah
Investor

Raju Chowdhury

Raju Chowdhury
Senior SWE @ Microsoft

Judging Criteria

  • Creativity
    Does the project present something novel and innovative?
  • Theme
    How well does the project follow this year's theme of TBD?
  • First Prize
    Superior execution of project. Everything is outstanding
  • Second Prize
    Great execution of project. Everything is outstanding only second to first prize

Questions? Email the hackathon manager

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