About the challenge

Welcome everyone to sandcastle an exiciting high enegery hackathon where students from various universities and colleges from Toronto and outside of the GTA. Where students compete to build the most awsome functional applications from scratch based off our API roulette wheel. Every group must spin the wheel to recieve two random api's to work with. Your mission is to create and deploy a working web app before the 8pm deadline. Bring your skills and experiences to see if you can build those sandcastles.

Get started

To get started when our event actually starts at 9am Sunday May 24 attendees must form a group/team to prepare for hack time.

each group needs a group name, first and last name, communication tools, API chosen from the wheel, tech stack, optional is roles.

  1. Team group name

  2. Team member names

  3. Communication tools (discord, instagram, whatsupp etc.)

  4. API Chosen (chosen from the wheel)

  5. Tech stack (React, SQL, etc.)

  6. Role per each group member(e.g project manager, ux designer, ui designer, frontend developer, presenter)

Requirements

What to Build

They need to build a working functional application from two random API's selected by the API wheel.

What to Submit

Submit Github repository by one of the team members

Optional: Submit any additional documents (e.g document planning, project planning, project management etc.)

 

Hackathon Sponsors

Prizes

4 non-cash prizes
Overall First Place Prize
1 winner

2026 Chinese Dragon Boat Festival Collection Box
Pokemon - Brilliant Fantasy Slim Booster Box

KNOWIDEA Prize
1 winner

Final Round Interview w/ KNOWIDEA

MottoMotto Prize
1 winner

Specialty Drink from MottoMotto Cafe for each team member

People's Choice Prize
1 winner

4x LEGO Sets
- Spider-Man vs Ghost Rider Motorcycle
- Ninjago Kai's Motorcycle Speed Race
- Minecraft Nether Lava Battle
- Creator Turtle with a Water Lily Flower

Devpost Achievements

Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:

Judges

Victoria Chernobay

Victoria Chernobay
SANDBOX Founder

Gurneesh

Gurneesh
KNOWIDEA Founding Engineer

Akira

Akira
Engineering at Ripple

Chayanth

Chayanth

Mei Sue

Mei Sue

Judging Criteria

  • Tech Implementation
    How smoothly and intentionally you used the random APIs we gave you.
  • User Experience
    Is your project logical, easy to use, and well-designed?
  • Pitch Delivery
    Can you clearly and convincingly explain what you built and why it matters?
  • Idea Potential
    How innovative is your idea, and could it actually be a real thing later?

Questions? Email the hackathon manager

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