Welcome to HackRice X! Come design, build, and code while meeting sponsors and peers and having fun! Check out everything you need to know at hack.rice.edu! (You must apply through our website in order to participate!)

This year, our official theme is health and sustainability - that of social, environmental, public, community, and personal. We're so excited to see the projects you will build!

$19,000 in prizes

• Technical Difficulty
  We are looking for technically advanced solutions to technically challenging problems that make use of hardware and API’s. However, if you can solve a technically challenging problem with a simple solution, we will be just as impressed!
• Creativity
  We are looking for original ideas or new angles on existing ideas. For example, using an API in a unique way. We know API’s work - we want to see if you can do something new and awesome with them!
• Design and Polish
  We are looking for aesthetically pleasing projects with smooth and clear user experience
• Practicality and Usefulness
  We are looking for socially good projects that people would use. Additionally, we would like to emphasize that we will extensively check to make sure that your project doesn’t only work on the cases you demo.