Best Overall - 1st Place

Description: Best overall projects based on creativity, execution, and impact. All projects submitted are automatically entered for the best overall categories.

Prizes: Prize pool includes the following:
- 13 inch M1 MacBook Pros
- M1 iPad Pros
- Ultra Wide Monitors

1st Place team chooses any prize of their choice first, 2nd Place chooses second, 3rd Place chooses third

Best Overall - 2nd Place

Description: Best overall projects based on creativity, execution, and impact. All projects submitted are automatically entered for the best overall categories.

Prizes: Prize pool includes the following:
- 13 inch M1 MacBook Pros
- M1 iPad Pros
- Ultra Wide Monitors

1st Place team chooses any prize of their choice first, 2nd Place chooses second, 3rd Place chooses third

Best Overall - 3rd Place

Description: Best overall projects based on creativity, execution, and impact. All projects submitted are automatically entered for the best overall categories.

Prizes: Prize pool includes the following:
- 13 inch M1 MacBook Pros
- M1 iPad Pros
- Ultra Wide Monitors

1st Place team chooses any prize of their choice first, 2nd Place chooses second, 3rd Place chooses third

Best First Time Hacker

Description: To qualify, everyone in the team must be first time hackers (submitting a project at a hackathon for the first time)

Prize: 4 x Nintendo Switches

Lightning Network Challenge by Okcoin

Description: Build something for people that uses LND's Lightning Network APIs. From peer-to-peer payments to gaming rewards, the Lightning Network makes bitcoin transactions cheaper and faster. Okcoin is challenging Shell Hacks developers to create a tool that leverages LND tech to help people in a new way.

Prizes: $1,000 in BTC for every winning team member

#GameOfShops by Shopify

Description: Create a commerce simulator game, mixing fun and knowledge! Shopify’s mission is to make commerce better for everyone, everywhere. However, commerce is a deep and complex domain that might be overwhelming for new merchants. What if there was a way to teach merchants the backstage complexities of commerce in a fun way?

Introducing the Game of Shops Challenge: Create a simulator game focused on commerce and the intricacies in running a business. This game should be all about balancing a mix of chaotic fun with some fun learning along the way.

Prizes: Interview with Recruiting Team + Shopify Swag/Gift Card

GANstant Win by GAN

Description: Create an instant-win game that feels like it’s skill based with the following features:

Reskins: Change the skin of the slot game on the fly to cater for events like Hackathon, Halloween, Thanksgiving, etc. Reskin includes visuals and sounds.

Modular Features: Swap in / out features (e.g. gamble, high/low, bonuses, freespins).

Deployable on web, iOS, Android. Bonus if it can be deployed on another platform of your choice.

Prize: Bose Soundlink II Headphones

Xbox Challenge by Microsoft

Description: Video games have been telling stories that connect us for decades, but storytelling has influenced gamers for generations. Build a game inspired by your story or the stories of those around you.

Judging Criteria: Game Mechanics and Storytelling

Prize: 12 Month Game Pass ultimate subscriptions

Best Use of Google Cloud by Google (2)

Description: Use any Google Cloud product

MLH will be providing an email before the event with $50 of Google Cloud credits and will be emailed on or earlier than Friday, September 24th, 2021.

Prize:
- 1st Place: Google Cloud branded backpack and Stadia
- 2nd Place: Google Cloud swag box and Chromecast

Hack for Accessibility by Facebook

Description: Help make the world a better place by creating technology that is accessible for everyone, in the widest sense of the word.

Prize: Facebook Portals

Code What Matters w/ JP Morgan Chase

Description: JPMC will email the challenge

Prize: JPMC Swag and AirPod Pros

Health Access and Delivery, National Security or Mis/Dis Information by Mitre (3)

Description: Hack on any topic you’re passionate about related to the following subject areas:
- Health care access
- National security
- Online mis/dis information)

Note: This hack can be anything from building an app to developing a website, or another programmable entity.

Prizes: Amazon gift cards up to $300, Jetson Developer Kits and Raspberry Pi’s

Conversational AI Chat Bot by AutoNation

Description: We want you to build an application that can receive SMS messages and respond based on the context of the request. Some example questions we’d like to see supported are:
- “What are your store hours?”
- “What is your store’s address?”
- “Is my car ready?”
- This matters to us because automating repetitive and predictable tasks allows our associates to spend more time working with customer and delivering a peerless experience.

Note: It’s important to remember that customer requests can vary in phrasing.

Prizes: Apple Airpod Pros

Productivity Booster App by Citrix

Description: We believe that people should be able to work and study from anywhere, at anytime and on any device. With this philosophy in mind, build an application that will boost your team's productivity and ability to collaborate.

Prizes: Airpod Pros

Best Use of Notifications by Courier

Description: Most innovative, fun, and or practical use of notifications using the Courier API.

Prizes: $25 Amazon gift card and Courier swag kit

Build for your City by CityCoins

Description: Build an application that contributes to the core foundations of the MiamiCoin ecosystem/user experience. MiamiCoin can range from exclusive access for spaces, financial incentives to accelerate local initiatives, governance frameworks for community engagement, and much more. Think of anything that you could use smart contracts for.

Prizes: $5000 in BTC split between a team

CryptoCurrency Portfolio/Trading Application by CoinRoutes Inc.

Description: The goal of this challenge is to create a cryptocurrency portfolio tracker / trading interface that is easy to use. (Mobile app / hybrid app preferred). You will have access to an instance of the CoinRoutes Smart Order Router for submitting trades and pulling balances over API, along with APIs for historical and Real-Time market data.

Prizes: 2 Ethereum split between a team

Best Financial Hack by Capital One

Capital One would like to challenge ShellHacks to create the best financial hack this weekend. Money impacts much of our lives and we would like to promote change for good.

Best designed application using Figma for your prototype by Figma

The best designed application using Figma for a prototype will be winning a Large swag bag from Figma!

Best Use of Auth0 by MLH

Auth0 wants your applications to be secure! Use any of the Auth0 APIs for a chance to win some exclusive swag, including a Miir 12oz tumbler, Rubiks Cube, and sticker! Why spend hours building features like social sign-in, Multi-Factor Authentication, and passwordless log-in when you can enable them through Auth0 straight out of the box? Save some time on your hack and set yourself up for a big win. It doesn't take much to get started. Auth0 is free to try with up to 7,000 free active users and unlimited log-ins. Make your new account today!

The winner of this prize will receive Exclusive Auth0 Swag made for MLH.

Most Creative Use of Twilio by MLH

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 some awesome prizes! Get started with $50 in free credit!

The winner will receive a Twilio Swag Box & GameGo Console.

Best Hardware Hack Sponsored by Digi-Key by MLH

Using your preferred hardware or hardware emulator, build a hack for your chance to win a Grove Beginner Kit, with embedded Arduino Uno compatible board. Each winning team member will receive a prize of a Grove Beginner Kit!

Best Domain Name from Domain.com by MLH

Register a .Tech domain name using Domain.com during the weekend for your chance to win a PowerSquare Qi Wireless Phone Charger 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 Space App powered by Space Force by MLH

The sky is not the limit! Try your hand at making a space-themed application for a chance to win a wireless Bluetooth speaker for you and your team from the U.S. Space Force! We’re looking for amazing solutions to any space-related problems you can imagine. For any sci-fi enthusiast, this is the perfect opportunity to push the limits of your creativity by building the technology of tomorrow, today. We can’t wait to see the solutions you build! Please note that the majority of your team should be located in the United States to qualify for this prize category.