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First hackathon? Intimidated? Never coded before? No worries! SimpliHacks 2.0 is a 48 virtual hackathon, brought to you by School Simplified. SimpliHacks is a hackathon for all students from all levels of coding and engineering experience. We have some great workshops that can get you started on your computer science journey. Want to learn how to make cool websites and apps? Or maybe you just want to learn how to code for fun. We’ll help you do just that. We envision SimpliHacks 2.0 as a tremendous learning experience and hopefully a fun one. We hope you join us for an amazing weekend! In order to be officially registered for the event, you must sign in with the signup sheet on our website https://www.schoolsimplified.org/simplihacks

What’s School Simplified?

School Simplified is a non-profit organization dedicated to fair, equal, and meaningful learning! With over 60,000 members in our Discord Server, we have hundreds of students in our community helping each other with their academic and extracurricular endeavors! Through learning, we empower the next generation to revolutionize the future. One of the primary themes at School Simplified is education, and with the recent boom in technology over the past few decades, learning basic computer science has become a very popular and important skill. This is why we are hosting SimpliHacks 2.0. We hope that we can excite our hackers with a great experience, demystify the intimidation around technology, and have them walk out with new knowledge they can apply in their future works.

$262,499 in prizes

• Creativity
  Is the hack more than just another generic social/mobile/local app? Does it do something entirely novel, or at least take a fresh approach to an old problem? How original is it?
• Technical Complexity
  Is the hack technically interesting or difficult? Is it just some lipstick on an API, or were there real technical challenges to surmount? How difficult is the stack being used?
• Design
  Is the hack aesthetically pleasing? Does the design of the hack elevate its message? Did the team put thought into the user experience? How well designed is the interface?
• Execution
  How well did you achieve what you set out to do? How polished is your project? Are the features you included functional and thorough? How functional is your project? Does it serve a purpose?
• Ease of Use
  Is it easy for the intended audience to use your program? Does the program's graphics correlate with function?
• Video
  Is the video and audio clear? Does the video help explain the project's goals, code, etc? Does the project do what the video says it can do?