Best IoT Business Product

This is individual $300 cash prizes written out as a check from IoTFuse to individuals on a team. Winners will be determined by an impartial panel of judges abiding by our code of ethics for the hackathon. The term, "best" does not have any structured rules to it.

"Business Product" can be subjective as well, but generally this could either mean a startup or a product to be added on to some existing business, or even to kick off a consulting business. Heck, if you have a restaurant and build something new to help you save costs - that's great too. Overall it will come down to the judge's opinions, which must remain impartial and abide by some reasonable level of non-conflict of interest given how small the community is - that's about the best we can do to make it fair.

Directors of IoTFuse will not have any say in the judgement process nor will they be eligible for this or any prize. Checks will be written out to individual team members in denominations of $300, with $300 being the maximum given out to any one person, and the maximum amount being given out to be capped at $1500 (five people). For example, if the team has up to five people, then each person will be given a separate check written out to them for $300. So for a team of two people, the prize will be $600 given as two separate checks to each individual. For every team member after that, the amount will be divided among the team members, for example for six people, the maximum amount $1500 will be divided by six (6) and equal checks of $250 will be given to each team member. Checks will be mailed so an address must be submitted to receive the check.

Best Maker / Artistic Creation

This is individual $300 cash prizes written out as a check from IoTFuse to individuals on a team.

Winners will be determined by an impartial panel of judges abiding by our code of ethics for the hackathon. The term, "best" does not have any structured rules to it, and art can be subjective, so basically it will come down to the judge's opinions, which must remain impartial and abide by some reasonable level of non-conflict of interest given how small the community is - that's about the best we can do to make it fair. Directors of IoTFuse will not have any say in the judgement process nor will they be eligible for this or any prize.

Checks will be written out to individual team members in denominations of $300, with $300 being the maximum given out to any one person, and the maximum amount being given out to be capped at $1500 (five people). For example, if the team has up to five people, then each person will be given a separate check written out to them for $300. So for a team of two people, the prize will be $600 given as two separate checks to each individual. For every team member after that, the amount will be divided among the team members, for example for six people, the maximum amount $1500 will be divided by six (6) and equal checks of $250 will be given to each team member. Checks will be mailed so an address must be submitted to receive the check.

Most Popular / Crowd Favorite

This is individual $300 cash prizes written out as a check from IoTFuse to individuals on a team.

This prize will be given out by the crowd favorite based upon tickets from people visiting from the community.

This is a prize where asking random people in the community to come in and visit the hackathon to vote for your prize is allowed - however what is not allowed is to pay out prize money back to those people in any fashion, whether gift or otherwise. The idea here is to get a bunch of people to come in from the community and see all of the projects.

Directors of IoTFuse will not have any say in the judgement process nor will they be eligible for this or any prize.

Checks will be written out to individual team members in denominations of $300, with $300 being the maximum given out to any one person, and the maximum amount being given out to be capped at $1500 (five people). For example, if the team has up to five people, then each person will be given a separate check written out to them for $300. So for a team of two people, the prize will be $600 given as two separate checks to each individual. For every team member after that, the amount will be divided among the team members, for example for six people, the maximum amount $1500 will be divided by six (6) and equal checks of $250 will be given to each team member. Checks will be mailed so an address must be submitted to receive the check.

Promethean Prize - Raspberry Pi / Bluetooth

This is a team prize up to a total of $1500 which goes to the individuals on a team which follows a particular technology theme, as follows:

* Has the best project incorporating Raspberry Pi and bluetooth tracking of some kind.
* All code is open source at the end and shared with the whole community on Github or equivalent at the end.
* Photo Opp with Prize Sponsor at the end.

Winners will be determined by an impartial panel of judges abiding by our code of ethics for the hackathon. Directors of IoTFuse will not have any say in the judgement process nor will they be eligible for this or any prize. Checks will be written out to individual team members in denominations of $500, with $500 being the maximum given out to any one person. For example, if the team is two people, then the total prize amount will be $1000. If the team has three people, then each will get $500. If the team has four people, then each member will get $375, and so on. Checks will be mailed so an address must be submitted to receive the check.