Sponsored by Burton D. Morgan Foundation - $1000

Develop a new or novel approach to garments and/or wearables that allow people to connect and collaborate with each other in tangible and meaningful ways.

Tags: health, safety, lifestyle, social, remote living, connection, design, user experience, AR/VR

Sponsored by Tom and Barbara Cole - $1000

Enhance and advance the total experience of fashion by changing the way we view, buy, borrow and/or acquire wearable products and concepts.

Tags: automation, customer experience, fashion consumption, people power, sustainability, diversity, inclusivity, adaptive, commercialization

Sponsored by Design Innovation - $1000

Disrupt the status quo and create a beautiful, radical, tech-enabled design that brings functional and the aesthetic of physically wearable tech clothing to a whole new level.

Tags: futuring, next gen garments, beauty, disruptive, sustainable, augmented reality

Sponsored by Ken Robinson - $1000

Make your garment or wearable an instrument. How might we use our bodies, garments and technology to create new music makers? What might a performance look like? How might we make new music together with our clothing?

Tags: music, exploration, performance, sound, gesture-based controls

Sponsored by the School of Peace and Conflict Studies - $1000

How might we create tech-aware uniforms for the staff of Queer Britain, the UK’s national LGBTQ+ museum? Often, uniforms can represent authoritarianism and suppress individualism, countering the messaging peace museums want to convey. Consider the ranges of queer expressions and queer bodies; how can fashion represent individualism to promote peaceful change?

Tags: disruption, queering, adaptive, transforming expectations, social justice, activism

Project submissions from any challenge stream can be eligible for this additional award Sponsored by the School of Peace and Conflict Studies!
$500

This award will be given to one fashion tech hackathon project that conveys social justice movement messages as well as enhancing safety/protection for civil disobedience activists and protesters.

Tags: protest, resistance, wearable tech, activism

Prize: Twilio Swag Box & GameGo Console

Twilio allows you to incorporate mobile messaging, phone calls and a ton of other awesome communication features right into your hackathon project using a web service API. Are you building an e-commerce website and want to send text notifications or email confirmations once an order is completed? Or maybe you'd like to verify users based on their mobile numbers? Twilio makes all this possible and more. Get started with $50 in free credit!

Prize: Fidelity Branded Wireless Charger

At Fidelity, accessibility is viewed as a major key to the success of their business, which is why they are challenging you to come up with innovative ways to make tech more accessible! We want you to use your hacking skills to find and build solutions that put opportunities and resources within reach to all communities.

Prize: Domain.com branded backpack

Register a .Tech domain name using Domain.com during the weekend. Each team may submit one entry per person on the team. The more creative the domain the better!

Prize: Wacom Drawing Tablets

We know how difficult it can be to create a phenomenal website in a short period of time, especially when it comes to hackathons. Velo by Wix cuts down your development without sacrificing on functionality! With a built-in database and fully customizable JavaScript front-end and back-end, you can develop a full-stack application directly in your browser. With Velo, all the tools you need are conveniently located in one platform!

Prize: Google Cloud Branded Backpack

Build your hackathon project with a suite of secure storage, powerful compute, and integrated data analytics products provided by Google Cloud. See full list of products here: g.co/cloud.