midVenturesLAUNCH 2010 Hackathon

About This Event

Developers: Get ready for a shot at the spotlight! Bring your laptops, phones, gadgets and development tools to the midVenturesLAUNCH 2010 Hackathon contest for a chance to bring your ideas to life during the 36-hour competition. After a round of demos and judging on Sunday afternoon, the winning team will get a demo table in the mVDEMO area at the conference and the chance present onstage at midVenturesLAUNCH on Tuesday, September 28th. This is a great opportunity to share the spotlight alongside the top startups chosen from the midVenturesCOMPETE entries. Winners will walk away with mad props and cool prizes.

Hackathon participants must be registered for the midVenturesLAUNCH event (use discount code mVLAUNCH2010_hackathon for a 20% Discount).

Prizes

- A demo table in the mVDEMO area at the midVenturesLAUNCH conference ($750 value)
- A chance to present your winning entry on stage during the conference (priceless)

Categories

• Best Overall
• Best Design
• Best MongoDB

Judges

Geoff Domoracki
Geoff is the founder and CEO of midVentures and co-founder of the midVenturesLAUNCH conference

Phil Tadros
Phil is a Chicago entrepreneur founder of Doejo and several other businesses. Doejo incubates start-ups and small businesses with web design, business consulting and social media

Chris Schnyder
Chris is co-founder of Hackathonia

Rules

• Hackathon participants must be registered for the midVenturesLAUNCH event.
• Entries may only win in one category.
• Applications should not be under development prior to the contest kickoff. Pre-existing code libraries and artifacts are allowed, but the spirit of the event encourages participants to build what they can in 36 hours.
• The development tools, frameworks and application focus are entirely up to the participants.
• Participants are expected to bring all tools and software necessary to build their entry. Organizers will provide caffeine and power strips, but you might want to bring your own.
• If a category has no entries, that category becomes 1st (or 2nd or 3rd) runner-up to the best overall.
• Rules are subject to change at the discretion of the Hackathon coordinators.

Schedule Details

Saturday, September 25, 2010

9:00 AM

Hackathon kickoff and coding at the Syncubator

Sunday, September 26, 2010

3:00 PM

Hackathon lightning demos and judging

Tuesday, September 28, 2010

9:00 AM	Winning team will have their tables set up with their materials and the conference floor is open for networking, discussion and dealmaking with the Midwest’s best entrepreneurs.
6:00 PM	Winning team will present their application on stage.