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
Grand Prize
$2,000 check + trip to Boston for US Finals (June 17-19)
Runner Up
$1,000 check
Devpost Achievements
Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:
How to enter
Free registration on Eventbrite:
Don't have a team yet? Form teams here:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1O3xfdzZbVVK3Zhr7D1MYosA9iZKSaxBv0uBEMHZRguk/edit#gid=0
We'll also have speed pitches at the event to help you connect with team members/teams.
Judges
Dr. Chris Green
Rhonda Shrader
Director, Berkeley Haas Entrepreneurship Program
Judging Criteria
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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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