Diagnosing, Treating and Preventing Chronic Lyme Disease!

Join hackers from the Bay Area and across the country at MIT for Hacking Lyme! We'll spend the weekend (April 16-17) building tools to prevent, diagnose and support patients living with chronic Lyme disease. 

 

HIGHLIGHTS

      • Kick-off address streamed live from the White House!
      • Hack space at the Haas Innovation Lab and SkyDeck.
      • $3,000 in cash prizes!
      • The top team also receives a trip to Boston for the National event (June 17-19) to compete for five seed funding grants & more!

This event is for experienced hackers as well as anyone who’s hacker-curious.  Bring your skills, talents and best ideas--tech, business, design/UX, data science, clinical...everything!  We’ll have ignite speeches, data sets, speed pitches and networking to help you find teams at the event.

  

WANT TO GET STARTED NOW?

Join a team or find a team member here.  Check out http://www.lymestats.org/ for data and ideas.

Eligibility

Eligibility: Individuals, teams, and organizations (up to 100 employees) can participate.  No minimum or maximum age or team size.  Startups, companies, ad hoc teams, groups and individuals may participate.

Requirements

Submission Requirements: Teams must create a demo (working or conceptual) to present during the pitch session.

Prizes

$5,000 in prizes
Grand Prize
1 winner

$2,000 check + trip to Boston for US Finals (June 17-19)

Runner Up
1 winner

$1,000 check

Judges

Dr. Chris Green

Dr. Chris Green

Rhonda Shrader

Rhonda Shrader
Director, Berkeley Haas Entrepreneurship Program

Judging Criteria

  • Innovation
    Is the tool/solution/idea novel? Does it leverage existing or new technology in a novel way?
  • Ease of Implementation
    Can the tool/solution/idea scale rapidly? Are there special requirements for the solution to be implemented (training, hardware, software, etc.)

Questions? Email the hackathon manager

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