Calling out to all women developers and hackathon enthusiasts from campus!
American Express is back with Makeathon 2021, a diversity event for women technologists across engineering colleges! This team-based competition will club essential elements of a coding based challenge (Round 1) and a Hackathon/ prototype building (Round 2), offering budding women engineers the opportunity to showcase their technical prowess on a national platform competing with some of the best minds in the country.
Eligibility:
- Women students graduating in the year 2022 & 2023
Timelines:
- Round-1 - Registrations & Team formation (Team size of 2 members) - Feb 16th to March 12th (6 PM), 2021
- Round-2 - Online coding assessment for eligible candidates - To be attempted by both members of the team and aggregate scores to be considered for final shortlist - March 14th, 2021
- Round-3 - The problem statements will be shared with the top-ranked 10 teams, who will be part of a final presentation round to be conducted virtually - 9th April, 2021.
Registration Starts on : Feb 15, 2021, 10.30 PM
Registration Phase : Online
Allowed Team Size : 2
Ends On : March 12, 2021,06.30 AM
Prizes
Winning Team
- Full time/Internship opportunities with American Express
- Win Apple watches!
First Runner up team
- Full time/Internship opportunities with American Express
- Win Apple airpods!
Second Runner up team
- Full time/Internship opportunities with American Express
- Win Samsung tablets!
Special Prizes
Top 10 teams (10)
Gift vouchers for top 10 teams in the finale.
FAQs
1. Do I need to pay any money to register for the Hackathon?
No. You do not have to pay anything to anyone to register yourself for any Hackathon on HackerEarth.
2. Do I need to have any specific eligibility to be a participant for this Hackathon?
Women students graduating in the year 2022 & 2023 are allowed to participate in this hackathon.
3. How do I submit what I have made for the Hackathon?
You have to develop the application on your local system and submit it on HackerEarth in tar/zip file format along with instructions to run the application and source code.
4. Do we need to have the entire idea fully working?
The entire idea needs not to be fully implemented however, the submission should be functional so that it can be reviewed by the judges.
5. Does one have to be online and available for the entire duration of the Hackathon?
No, one does not need to be logged in on HackerEarth or be online for the entire duration. You can develop the application on your local system based on the given themes and then submit it on HackerEarth, on the specific challenge page.
6. If it is a team submission, does that mean all team members will have access to work at the same time?
Yes, all team members can log in from their accounts and do application submission on HackerEarth.
