1st Place - Education Track (2)

$1000 + 1 Year of Centered Pro ($80) + $250 worth of DigitalOcean cloud credits + 5 free years of Taskade Unlimited ($300) + Interview Buddy async online mock interviews ($13.50)

1 Winner per Division

1st Place - Healthcare Track (2)

$1000 + 1 Year of Centered Pro ($80) + $250 worth of DigitalOcean cloud credits + 5 free years of Taskade Unlimited ($300) + Interview Buddy async online mock interviews ($13.50)

1 Winner per Division

2nd Place - Education Track (2)

$500 + 1 Year of Centered Pro ($80) + $125 worth of DigitalOcean cloud credits + 5 free years of Taskade Unlimited ($300) + Interview Buddy async online mock interviews ($13.50)

1 Winner per Division

2nd Place - Healthcare Track (2)

$500 + 1 Year of Centered Pro ($80) + $125 worth of DigitalOcean cloud credits + 5 free years of Taskade Unlimited ($300) + Interview Buddy async online mock interviews ($13.50)

1 Winner per Division

3rd Place - Education Track (2)

$250 + 1 Year of Centered Pro ($80) + $125 worth of DigitalOcean cloud credits + 5 free years of Taskade Unlimited ($300) + Interview Buddy async online mock interviews ($13.50)

1 Winner per Division

3rd Place - Healthcare Track (2)

$250 + 1 Year of Centered Pro ($80) + $125 worth of DigitalOcean cloud credits + 5 free years of Taskade Unlimited ($300) + Interview Buddy async online mock interviews ($13.50)

1 Winner per Division

Best Fintech Project - UTD

$250 + 1 Year of Centered Pro ($80) + $125 worth of DigitalOcean cloud credits + 5 free years of Taskade Unlimited ($300) + Interview Buddy async online mock interviews ($13.50)

Most Creative

$100 - This prize is awarded to the team/individual with the most creative project.

Best Design

$100 - This prize is awarded to the project with the most appealing and aesthetic design UI.

Mini-events - Overall

$500 total in prizes for various mini-events (games, tournaments, etc.) held during the hackathon.

Free Participation Prizes (300)

Each participant to submit a project will receive the following:

MetroHacks T-Shirt: $10 value

Interview Buddy Vouchers: 90% off discount for asynchronous mock interviews ($12 value)

Centered Pro: one free month of Centered.app's Pro feature ($10 value)

EchoAR Business Plan: free one-month access ($89 value)

DigitalOcean cloud services: 60-day free trial ($100 value)

Taskade Unlimited: one free year of Taskade's Unlimited feature ($60)

O'Reilly Media Learner's Premium: one free month of access ($49)

Raffle Prizes

Every participant that submits a project will receive one free ticket in the MetroHacks raffle. Participants will have the chance to receive any ONE of:

4 AoPS $25 coupons
7 coupons for 1 year free of Centered.app's Pro feature ($80 each)

Most Creative Use of Twilio

Twilio allows you to incorporate mobile messaging, phone calls and a ton of other awesome communication features right into your hackathon project using a web service API. Are you building an e-commerce website and want to send text notifications or email confirmations once an order is completed? Or maybe you'd like to verify users based on their mobile numbers? Twilio makes all this possible and more. Build a hack that simplifies your life using any Twilio API for a chance to win a Twilio Swag Box & GameGo Console ! Get started with $50 in free credit

Best Domain Name from Domain.com

Register a .Tech domain name using Domain.com during the weekend for your chance to win a Domain.com branded backpack for you and each member of your team! Each team may submit one entry per person on the team. The more creative the domain the better!

Best Use of NLP with Cohere

Cohere makes Natural Language Processing easy to do with their ready to use online platform. Simply sign-up, claim your free $75 credit, no credit card required, and start training your very own language model directly on the web! You and your teammates can each win a Raspberry Pi 4 Starter Kit by using Cohere in your next hack. Wondering what to build? Cohere is great for text and content generation, text-based search, predictive text and so much more. Check out our software & learn pages for more details!