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Seattle Interactive IOT Hackathon - Tiny Home & Automotive

by Seattle Interactive

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Date and Time

Sat, Oct 8, 2016, 10:00 AM –

Sun, Oct 9, 2016, 6:00 PM PDT

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Location

Galvanize Seattle - Pioneer Square

111 South Jackson Street

Seattle, WA 98104

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Description

Love fame, fortune and hackathons? Want to meet some new developers in the area?

This hack is focused on IOT for tiny home & automotive. Want to make a crazy robot toaster that spits out Hello Kitty branded toast? Or a remote controlled AC unit with an arduino/raspberry-pi? Maybe an automatic facial recognition system with a raspberry pi that covers your car and that automatically tweets motion triggered images to @seattlePD?

Vin.li, Particle.io, Webtask.io, Apptentive and T-Mobile to help you pull together an interesting app and all without a server! How? Checkout webtask.io from Auth0 - IOT devices can now act independently and scale server demand as necessary. And, of course, any idea is welcome and fair game!

Five final teams will all be showcased on-stage at Seattle Interactive Conference for a panel of high profile, celebrity judges for a chance to win a boatload of cash and the opportunity to have lunch with T-Mobile CIO, Cody Sanford.

All participants receive:

All Hackathon participants who apply for an open position through a special landing page will be guaranteed an interview with the manager of T-Mobile’s Enterprise IT recruiting team.

FREE pass to the Seattle Interactive Conference (passes to be handed out to everyone that presents).

Prizes:

1st Place

$7,000 + T-Mobile devices
Lunch with Cody Sanford (T-Mobile CIO)
Opportunity to pitch your idea to the senior leadership team at T-Mobile

2nd Place

$2,000 + T-Mobile Devices

3rd Place

$1000 + T-Mobile devices

Best Use of Webtask.io

One (1) Sparkfun Johnny Five Kit per team member, limit five (5)
One (1) Learning Javascript Robotics per team member, limit five (5)

Judges & Criteria

We have also lined up the following judges and mentors help you create the best possible app:

Judges

Ryan Yokel, T-Mobile, Minister of Emerging Products
HB Siegel, Amazon, Principle Investigator
Lisa Weeks, CMO, Hashbang Games
Joseph Fernando, T-Mobile, Head Innovator & Technical Advisor
Taylor Soper, Geekwire
Steve Gomez, T-Mobile, Sr. Director, Digital Services
Kassandra Perch, Webtask.io/Auth0, Developer Evangelist
Cody Sanford, T-Mobile, Chief Information Officer

Mentors

Kassandra Perch, Webtask.io/Auth0, Developer Evangelist

Judging criteria will be determined on the following points:

Usefulness - Is the hack practical and does it provide useful info for users? Does it fulfill a real need?
Originality - Is the hack something novel or a fresh approach to an old problem?
Technical Difficulty - Is the hack technically interesting or difficult? Is a rehashed API demo?
Polish / Design - Does the app work and how clean is the UI flow? Is the user experience smooth? Does everything appear to work? Is it well designed?