Philly Codefest 2019 Student Team Award

This award will recognize the best student team hack. This award is only eligible to 100% student teams!

Winning team to share $2,500 cash prize

Winning team will also visit the Comcast Technology Center for a lab tour & meeting with Rick Rioboli and others

Philly Codefest 2019 Collaborative Award

Philly Codefest 2019 Collaborative Award: In the spirit of Philly Codefest’s mission, the Collaborative Award is only open to teams with a mix of students and professional participants. This prize will go to the best overall hack.

Drexel CCI Corporate Partners Program -Philly Codefest 2019 People's Choice Award

This prize is awarded to a hardware or software team/project with the most votes from Philly Codefest attendees. Voting for this award to take place between 3-4pm on Sunday, May 5. You must be present to vote.

Philly Codefest Best Hack for Social Good

In the spirit of Codefest's 2019 Theme: Economic Inequality, the Best Hack for Social Good will be award to the team that best addresses Philadelphia's inequality issue.

Comcast Learning Module for Internet Essentials Customers

Create a Learning Module for our Internet Essentials Customers. Internet Essentials is our low cost Internet service for Vets, low income families, and Seniors. Come up with a platform that helps our customers develop professionally through development, job searching, etc. Judges will be looking for platform service(s) taking a central role in the solution.

Comcast Low Cost Internet for Students

Come up with a way to find a low cost internet solution to help your community and bridge the gap of economic inequality. Judging criteria for the challenge is practicality and realism of the solution provided.

American Water Volunteer App - Give/Receive Together

Create a web crawler app that will aggregate information about volunteer opportunities at events ranging from donating to food pantries, technology training, employment networking for women and minorities, environmental cleanup, and much more (the possibilities are endless). The overall goal should be to develop a user interface for people who want to donate their time or materials, as well as people who want to benefit from these events. Search parameters should be easily navigable by the user based on their location, role (volunteer vs. user), area of interest (technology training, legal services, food pantry, etc.). Users should be able to view their results in list form, as well as in calendar view.

American Water Code for Water

The purpose of this challenge is to create a game to target students of all ages to learn how to code. Coding can seem a daunting to task to new students- make a fun game inspired from games like Candy Crush, Angry Birds, and Homescapes where -as the students advance in the game, they learn more coding principles. Winning a level earns players points, which they can spend “cleaning up” a natural, water-centered area such as a forest stream, a beach, or a river bank. The environments should be engaging, and there should be a story element which encourages people to keep moving forward and learning more about both code and water.

Google Best Use of Google Cloud Platform

The team that makes the best use of the Google Cloud Platform.

Close School Innovation Award

To the team with the most innovative hardware or software hack.

Linode 2019 Best Hardware Hack

This prize is awarded to the team voted on by judges to have the best hardware hack.

Indeed - Most Helpful for Job Seekers

How can open data be used to enrich and empower the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, or even
global job seeker experience?

Vanguard - Financial Literacy

How might we educate low income families on their financial health? (Use technology to help increase financial literacy. You or your team can create a game, an app, a tool or whatever you think is best as long as it helps teach low income families about how to manage and even grow their finances.)