Fourteen ways to win
Every project is automatically in the running for ten awards. Pick up to three pitched challenges and you're in the running for those too. Prizes are split evenly across the winning team.
Open awards
Every submitted project is considered for all of these.
- Grand Prize The best thing built this weekend, strong on every criterion.$400in prizes, split across the team
- 2nd Place The next two strongest projects overall.$150in prizes, split across the team
- 3rd Place The next two strongest projects overall.$100in prizes, split across the team
- Most Impactful Hack The project most likely to improve real lives.$75in prizes
- Most Innovative Hack Something genuinely new.$75in prizes
- Most Technically Complex Hack The hardest engineering problem, solved well.$75in prizes
- Best Hardware Hack Make something physical work.$75in prizes
- Best User Insight The team that learned the most from real people.$75in prizes
- Ihsan Award Doing the work beautifully, with care.$75in prizes
- Most Likely to Become a Venture The team that should keep going after Sunday.$100in prizes plus an MC² Accelerator slot: funding, desk time, a mentor and a follow-up demo day
- Best Use of GitHub A repository a stranger could pick up on Monday.$75in prizes
Most Likely to Become a Venture comes with $100 and an MC² Accelerator slot. Teams picked for the Accelerator get funding to take their idea to market, desk time at MC² Works + Labs, a mentor from the Summit speaker list and a follow-up demo day.
Pitched challenges
4 more prizes of $100 each, one per pitched challenge. The full challenges are revealed at kickoff; here's a hint of each:
- 1Something your masjid community would use every week.
- 2Help Quran learning stick.
- 3Win back the hours lost to scrolling.
- 4Help a kid who has fallen behind catch up.