Kent Hack Enough brings hackers from all over the nation together to learn something new, party hard, and create something awesome. With more than 350 highly motivated, creative, and talented participants, Kent Hack Enough is a weekend-long event where students from all areas of interest come together to make something awesome, like an app, website or hardware hack. The entire event is free for students, including food, energy drinks, and swag. In between all the coding, designing, and water pong, our sponsors are available as mentors to provide help and expertise throughout the hacking process.
Prizes
$7,180 in prizes
1st Prize
$2000
2nd Prize
$1000
3rd Prize
$500
Most Involved
A BoogieBoard to the top 3 people with the highest score through scanning the QR codes that each sponsor/event has.
Water Pong Winner
$25 Amazon Gift Cards to the two members who win the Water Pong Tournament
Best Wearable Hack
$500 prize Sponsored by TechStyleLAB
Best Hack/Website on a .Tech Domain
$150 Amazon Gift card to every member of the team that presents the best hack/website on a .tech domain at Kent Hack Enough. Visit www.get.tech/startups to get your free .tech domain
Amazon Web Services - Best Use of AWS
$250 Amazon Web Services Credit
Best IoT Hack Using a Qualcomm Device
410C Dragonboard for each team member
Best Domain Name from Domain.com
Raspberry Pi & PiHut Essential Kit
Best Beginner Hack
(2)
A BoogieBoard for every member of a newbie team with the best hack!
Cardinal Commerce Sponsored Prize
A HP VR Headset; mixed reality developer edition, is awarded to the winning team sponsored by Cardinal Commerce
Cup Flip Winners
A BoogieBoard will be awarded to the members of the top 2 teams in the cup flip tournament
Hack With Most Commercial Potential
Devpost Achievements
Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:
How to enter
Kent Hack Enough is free and open to students of all majors. If you are a high school student or a minor, please contact us for more information about how to attend. We’ll send you a waiver for your parents to sign and return before the event, and then you’ll be allowed in. If you’re traveling to Kent, please contact us for more information about travel reimbursement.
Hackers must be registered at khe.io.
Judges
Cale Smith
IT Manager / Progressive
Jake Sanchez
Senior Application Developer / Progressive
Robin Bonatesta
Full Stack Developer / Cladwell
Paul Dilyard
Senior Software Engineer / Remesh
Patrick Feeley
Embedded Software Engineer II / Rockwell Automation
Tabitha Martin
Advisor Venture Initiatives / LaunchNET
Joe Duncko
Frontend Engineer / Drund
Stacy Wildman
Software Engineering Co-Op / RoviSys
Judging Criteria
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Technical Difficulty
Is your hack challenging? -
Usability
Is your hack actually useful? Does your project solve a problem? -
Polish
Is your project well designed? -
Originality
Is this a new idea, or is your project something we see at every other hackathon?
Questions? Email the hackathon manager
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