At Assemble, we kept prizes small & numerous. We wanted attendees to feel motivated to build an awesome project but for the hackathon to remain friendly & collaborative at the same time.
Here are the prizes we brought to the event to give out:
| Item | Quantity |
|---|---|
| ⏺️ Useless Box Kit (Solarbotics) | 4 |
| 🔮 Circuit Playground Express - Base Kit (Adafruit) | 4 |
| 🚀 Space Shuttle Discovery Solder Kit by Phyx (Adafruit) | 8 |
| 📺 TV-B-Gone Kit - Universal v1.2 (Adafruit) | 4 |
| 🔌 Day of the Geek Soldering Badge Kit (Pimoroni) | 16 |
| ⚡ Orpheus Leaps | 40 |
| 🦕 Orpheus Plushies | 20 |
| 🧊 3D-printed Hack Cubes & Fidget Spinners | 40 |
| 🌝 Assorted NASA Flight Memorabilia | 8 |
Here are all the award categories we used:
- 8-Ball's Favorite Project
- The Scrappy Award
- The Game of the weekend
- Most Upvoted Project
- The Mystery Award
- The Trigger Award
- Most Loved Project
- Most Polished Project
- Most Magical Project
- The Space Award
- Most Hacky Project
- The Eggsdee Award
- Dinobox's Favorite Project
- Most Magical Project
- The Ship
- The Big Brain Award
- Most Cursed Project
- The Emoji Award
- Most Fire Project
As you can see, we had a ton of prizes! We ended up giving everyone who attended a prize, with the smaller prizes going to those who didn't win an award at the event (we had to reuse some event supplies such as workshops hardware as prizes to cover every attendee).
In addition to purchased prizes, we also fabricated some of our own. In Vermont, we had access to a laser cutter where we were able to create custom plaques based on Hack Club Slack emojis. Using the laser, we etched designs (designed in Figma) into 1/4" thick acrylic pieces (4" by 6" in size). We've open-sourced all of our designs at hack.af/assemble-plaques.