Philly Codefest 2018 Student Team Award

This award will recognize the best student team hack. This award is only eligible to 100% student teams!

Philly Codefest 2018 Collaborative Award

Philly Codefest 2018 Collaborative Award: In the spirit of Philly Codefest’s mission, the Collaborative Award is only open to teams with a mix of students and professional participants. This prize will go to the best overall hack.

Drexel CCI Corporate Partners Program -Philly Codefest 2018 People's Choice Award

This prize is awarded to a hardware or software team/project with the most votes from Philly Codefest attendees. Voting for this award to take place between 3-4pm on Sunday, April 15. You must be present to vote.

Most Likely To Go To Market" Software for Social Impact Award

This prize is awarded to the most innovative, high-impact and scalable software project for social good.

Philly Codefest 2018 Best Hardware Hack

This prize is awarded to the team voted on by judges to have the best hardware hack.

JPMorgan Chase - Best Hack for Social Good

PRIZE: Bose SoundLink Bluetooth Speakers (1 for each member of the winning team).

JUDGING CRITERIA can be picked up at the JPMorgan Chase Sponsorship Table.

Hack on ANY SOCIAL GOOD TOPIC that you are interested in or passionate about. If you do not have a specific idea, you can consider the social good challenges below:

1) DISASTER RELIEF AND RECOVERY: Develop something that can be used to aid cities impacted by natural disasters with relief and recovery. Some areas that you may be interested in include communications, access to resources, infrastructure, and public safety.

2) FINANCIAL CAPABILITY FOR UNIVERSITY STUDENTS: In a 2015 study, 25 percent of university students in the United States gave themselves a D or an F in how successfully they manage their money. Develop a web or mobile app that helps university students improve their financial wellness. It can be any platform but should have a focus on being actionable and relevant.

Cox Automotive - Best Use of Cloud Platform Services

The prize is award to the team with the best use of Cloud Platform Services as part of their solution. They are looking to see these platform service(s) taking a central role in the solution! Winning team members will receive Amazon Echo Shows.

Participants are not limited to AWS, and can use other services such as Lambda, Dynamo, etc.)

Cerner - Block Chain Currency

Create a system with a block chain currency for people to use in a social network for custom group challenges.

Google - Best User Interface

This prize is awarded to the most well-designed, most intuitive, and unique mobile interface that focuses on the user experience. The winning interface should be inclusive - considering all users, such as those with perceptual, motor, and/or cognitive disabilities, as well as age, education/literacy and socio-economic status.

Each member of the winning team will receive a train ticket to visit Google's NYC office for a tour and 1 on 1 Q&A and resume consultation with Google Engineers as well as a Google Home Mini

Linode Innovation Award

To the team with the most innovative hardware or software hack

American Water - Active Shooter/Alert App

Shootings in schools and offices are on the rise. Schools and offices’ generally provide training on how to handle an active shooter, however, at such moment people may go into shock and may forget the training they received. Having an app on hand significantly eases the alert relay for people located on site.

Build an Active Shooter Alert App with Geo Location and Building floor plan with nearby exit info that would help both law enforcement and students/employees in case of such incident.

Prize:Drone Bundle - DJI Mavic Air Fly More Combo, Invitation to the 2018 American Water Looking Forward Conference 4/16 & 4/17

American Water - Pipe Restraint Calculator

Restrain or secure high-pressure lines with proven restraint devices and methods to prevent potential “whipping” of these lines should there be an equipment failure. Unrestrained lines have been known to swing freely, striking workers and equipment. Pipe restraint failing and ultimately causing injury to field crew members has been one of the biggest safety concern in the water utility industry.

Challenge
How can we use Technology to calculate pipe restraint length under different given conditions of pipe size, operating pressure, depth of bury, safety factor etc. and provide water utility field crew the recommended pipe restraint length under these given conditions?

Prize: 3D Printer Bundle - FlashForge Creator Pro 3D Printer & AIO Robotics Universal Premium Filament, Invitation to the 2018 American Water Looking Forward Conference 4/16 & 4/17

American Water - Fire Hydrant Location App

When responding to a fire, fire departments need to know where the nearest working fire hydrants are. The information they are working from may not be accurate as hydrants can be retired or placed out of service by the water company. In addition, the use of some hydrants may be known to have effects on critical infrastructure such as hospitals or dialysis centers.

Challenge:
Get the most accurate information to responders. Create an application that asks a user for their current location. Use this current location to find the nearest fire hydrant that is in service, display any critical notes that may be available. The Haversine Formula can be used to find the distance between two latitude and longitude values. One could also use the coordinates to create a boundary to exclude a large amount of the area being searched.

Prize: Robotics Bundle - Makeblock DIY Ultimate Robot Kit, X2Makeblock DIY mBot Ranger, X2 Makeblock Inventor Kit Robot Arduino Module Kit, X2 Makeblock mBot Ranger Add-on Pack Laser Sword, Invitation to the 2018 American Water Looking Forward Conference 4/16 & 4/17