AWS graviton Hackathons processors are custom built by Amazon Web Services using 64-bit Arm Neoverse cores to deliver the best price-performance for your cloud workloads running in Amazon EC2. It is the latest generation Arm-based processor that powers a range of general-purpose, compute-optimized, and memory-optimized EC2 instances

aws graviton Hackathons is challenging you to build or migrate innovative applications on AWS Graviton2-based EC2 instances.

Check out the resources below to learn more about Graviton2 processors and their instances, as well as the applications you can build or migrate.

JOIN aws graviton hackathons BEFORE YOU REGRET.

Deadline: Oct 13, 2021

at 5:00pm EDT

Who should attend?

Here is all you need to know about who should attend this hackathon.

Hackathon for Good is a 12-hour hackathon made for 100 developers, Digital Solution Designers, or students with coding skills who are eager to create a positive impact on local communities with the power of technology. We welcome you to attend the event from all Nordic & Baltic countries. The event participation is free of charge. 

COUNTRIES EXCLUDED FROM aws graviton hackathons:

Brazil, Cuba, Iran, Italy, North Korea, Mexico, Quebec, Syria, Crimea, and any other country designated by the United States Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control.

WHY YOU SHOULD PARTICIPATE ?

Here are some of the reasons why you should give it a try:

1. You can structure your deliberate practice routine around it.

2. It will prepare you well for technical interviews

3. You’ll get used to working on a challenging problem

4. Chance to win exciting prizes.

REQUIREMENTS:

  1. Provide a URL to your code repository for judging and testing or a link to your functioning demo. 
  2. Include a video (about 3 minutes) that demonstrates your submission. Videos must be uploaded to YouTube, Vimeo, or Facebook Video and made public.
  3. Must include a link to their project working
    • If you can not include a link to your working project, you must be able to prove your work, provide end-to-end proof with a screen recording of localhost or some other solution
  4. Must include a description of which category you are submitting to (New App / Migration) 

JUDGING CRITERIA:

  1. Quality of the Idea
    Includes creativity, originality, and code quality
  2. Potential Value
    Includes the extent to which the solution can be widely useful for your organization & the Graviton ecosystem
  3. Implementation
    Includes how well the idea was executed by the developers and the extent to which Graviton’s features were leveraged

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ELIGIBILITY:

  • Above legal age of majority in country of residence
  • Specificcountries/territories excluded

CAN I REGISTER AS A TEAM?

Yes, you may signup as a team of 5 hackers. Please register each of you as individuals, and let us know which 5 of them should be in a team.

WHAT IS BENEFIT OF BEING A WINNER?

PRIZES:

$50,000 in prizes

 FIRST PLACE:
  • $10,000 USD
  • Tickets, hotel, airfare, and accommodations for 1 person to re: invent 2021
  • A blog post featuring the winning projects
SECOND PLACE:

● $7,500
● A blog post featuring the winning projects

THIRD PLACE:

● $5,000
● A blog post featuring the winning projects

 FOURTH PLACE:

● $2,500
● A blog post featuring the winning projects

FIFTH PLACE:

● $1,500
● A blog post featuring the winning projects

HONORABLE MENTION:

● $1,000 (up to 10 winners)

HOW CAN I Reach HACKATHON ORGANIZERS?

If you have questions that have not been answered in the FAQ above, please contact  [email protected]

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