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MERGE 2022 is a hack+policython, encouraging young minds from any background to solve our society’s most pressing challenges. Throughout this 36-hour virtual event, participants in STEM and humanities are encouraged to work together to create a project that incorporates a technical solution and a policy brief.

Requirements

Submission Requirements

  • Teams must create a Fusion project in order to qualify for one of the prizes.
    • Fusion: a technical hack project + demo video + written policy brief

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Prizes

$24,950 in prizes

1st Place

• Lifetime access to Taskade
• 1 year of 1Password family plan
• Leading Learners Edtech Bundle
• $25 AOPS Coupon

2nd Place

• Lifetime access to Taskade
• 1 year of 1Password family plan

3rd Place

• Lifetime access to Taskade
• 1 year of 1Password family plan

Best Vancouver-Based Hack

• 5 day access to HiVE Vancouver per each team member

Honorable Mention (2)

• 1 year of 1Password family plan

Devpost Achievements

Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:

Judges

Hack+Policy Foundation

Hack+Policy Foundation

Azamat Nurkhojayev

Azamat Nurkhojayev
Lead Developer - Home Credit Bank Kazakhstan

Danylo Tolmachov

Danylo Tolmachov
Head of Software Engineering at Techstack Ltd

Stepanov Dimitrii

Stepanov Dimitrii
Software Architect & Head of R&D at Goodt

Yura Abharian

Yura Abharian
Senior Software Engineer | SoftServe

Maksym Mostovyi

Maksym Mostovyi
Front end engineer | Rain (rain.com)

Judging Criteria

  • Originality and Creativity
    Did the team do something novel, or take a fresh approach to the problem?
  • Usefulness and Feasability
    Is the project practical? Does it solve the problem?
  • Scope and Impact
    Who is affected by this problem? Who can benefit from the presented solution?
  • Evidence and Analysis
    Are the claims backed up by specific evidence, facts and statistics? How strong is the construction and delivery of the arguments?
  • Technical Design and Complexity
    Was the technological aspect of the project hard to build? Did the team use clever techniques or implement complex components?
  • Completion and Functionality
    Is the hack usable? Does it work? Does the hack achieve what the team wanted?
  • Presentation and Clarity
    Are the ideas well organized? Is it presented clearly

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