Please find the available hackathon prizes and rewards below!

Top Prizes 👑

  1. First Place Prize - $3500 CAD to the charity of the winning teams choice, and $3500 CAD to the winning team.
  2. Second Place Prize - $2000 CAD to the charity of the winning teams choice, and $2000 CAD to the winning team.
  3. Third Place Prize - $1000 CAD to the charity of the winning teams choice, and $1000 CAD to the winning team.

Side Pot Prizes 🍷

  1. Best Use of Cloud Computing - $250 CAD to the charity of the winning teams choice, and $250 CAD to the winning team
  2. Best User Experience - $250 CAD to the charity of the winning teams choice, and $250 CAD to the winning team
  3. Admin Team’s Choice - $250 CAD to the winning teams choice, and $250 CAD to the winning team

Swag Giveaway 👕

We have 225 tote bags, toques, and other swag to give away for in-person participants. Please stay tuned for that!

Online Raffles 👩🏾‍💻

We have up to $2,000 CAD in gift card prizes (ranging between $5-$30, from Apple, Amazon, Uber Eats, Starbucks & Tim Hortons) being raffled off on our Discord server throughout the event. Challenges listed below, stay tuned!

Challenge 1: Make a pixel art piece using the Excel template here (download as an Excel file to get the right format), and submit your art to this form.

Challenge 2: Guess how many Code the Change <3 keycaps are in this figure and submit your guess to this form.

Challenge 3: Send in your design of a “Hack the Change” mascot for this hackathon here, prizes available for the most creative and best illustrated!

Challenge 4: Tag us on your socials using our IG handle “@codethechangeyyc” to be entered into a draw!

Challenge 5: Send in your design of what you would like CTC merch to feature here, prizes available for the best illustrated (and fitting to our branding)!

AWS Credits ☁️

We have 100 credit packs of $50 worth of AWS credits. Stayed tuned in on our Discord for more information on this!