Golden Hack Impact Weekend 2024

Looking to enhance your resume and boost your skills? Want to gain hands-on experience working on real-world problems alongside industry mentors? How about the chance to win cash prizes for your input and ideas?

UNC Charlotte students from all majors, backgrounds, and experience levels will come together during the weekend of October 18-20 to share ideas and create solutions. In a low-stakes environment, students will collaborate to design, develop, and pitch ideas that address real-world challenges.

Challenges include:

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  Securing Cyberspace: Supply Chain Security, Digital Trust, and Financial Security


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  Digital Transformation: AI, Personalized Learning, Virtual Reality, and Health Information (e.g., sharing personalized health data for the public good, AI assistance for school visits)


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  Social Good and Public Service: Protecting the unhoused during extreme heat, Career Readiness for High School and University Students, Building Community through Technology, and Mental Health Solutions


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  Sustainability: Food Insecurity, Wishcycling, Making Solar Energy Economical, Access to Clean Water, Restoring and Improving Urban Infrastructure


• Gaming and Entertainment


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  OPEN Category: Have your own idea? Submit an overview to the committee. This category is limited, so submit your idea as soon as possible.

Resources will be available to help participants focus on the problem they’d like to tackle during the Golden Hack: Impact Weekend.

Oct. 19, 2024 - Oct. 20, 2024

Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation

9210 University City Blvd, Charlotte, NC 28213, USA

$18,000