About the challenge
BUILD is an event bridging students' passion for new and emerging technologies and positive social impact. Within BUILD’23, participants are to use any form of new technology (e.g. Blockchain, AI, Nanotechnology) to create a hack addressing one of the global issue tracks.
Get started (BUILD'23 | Refoundation)
Tip for forming teams: 4 people / team max, look for a balance of humanities and STEM hackers
Please register here or your submission will NOT be counted
Requirements
What to Submit: We will be offering two paths: technical and non-technical.
Technical
Requirements:
- Deploy link of coded project
- Video demo of prototype
(A pitch deck and pitch are optional)
Non-technical
Requirements:
- Pitch deck
- Pitch video
- Or any alternative creative methods - please confirm with hosts
Prizes
$CAD188,976 in prizes
Wolfram Award
(20)
1-year Wolfram|One personal Edition + Wolfram|Alpha Pro subscription (per team member)
! Only 5 projects will be selected (4 members per team)
Complimentary Prizes
(200)
- 1-month subscription of Wolfram|One
- 1-month echo3D Premium subscription
- 1-year subscription of .xyz domain - personal or project use
- 5-year unlimited access to Taskade
- Team license to Voiceflow
- Axure RP Team Edition
Taskade Award
(20)
Lifetime unlimited upgrades
Most Innovative use of Verbwire
(3)
$250 Prize total. We'll give a $25 Amazon gift card to each team member on any team that qualifies.
Most creative use of Verbwire
(50)
$45 in Premium API credits for any team that qualifies, and has not been awarded a prize in category 1. We'll give up to 50 teams this.
Mento Design Academy's Best Prototype
The project that exemplifies in the use of UI/UX components and selected by the Mento Academy Judges
Adobe Creative Cloud 1-Year Subscriptions
(3)
Adobe Creative Cloud subscriptions for the 3 winning teams of the main global issue tracks.
Sustainability Main Track
Climate Change and Sustainability Track.
Healthcare Main Track
Accessibility and quality of healthcare track.
Inequalities Main Track
Educational and social inequalities track.
Web3 Track Powered by Verbwire
The best Web3 implementation chosen by Verbwire.
Devpost Achievements
Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:
Judges

Ganesh Harke
Vice President of Software Engineering at Citi Bank

Pavel Terenin
Senior Software Engineer at Juniper Square

Doyita Mitra
Solutions Architect at AWS

Eric Joseph Lee
Founder and President of VXP

Olivia Li
CEO of Kangaroo OS

Yolqin Alimov
Senior Product Designer at Super Dispatch
Judging Criteria
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TBD
Questions? Email the hackathon manager
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