Nationwide Hackathon

Nationwide is on your side (did you sing that?). Although we’re in the insurance business, innovation is an essential part of who we are. Everyday our goal is to create a sense of security by focusing on the value we bring to our members. We are proud to be in the Top 100 Best Places to Work (FORTUNE), 50 Best Workplaces for Diversity (FORTUNE), and the Best Place to Work in IT (Computerworld), but we are always striving for what’s next.

We are looking for the best developers, entrepreneurs, and designers to be on our side in creating a safer and more secure world by developing products that help millennials navigate buying their first home, inform small or medium business owners on how to elevate their businesses, and brings Nationwide members together during a catastrophe. Join us on May 19-20 for the Nationwide Hackathon and help reshape insurance as you know it!

Prizes

GRAND PRIZE:

• Cash Prize: $10,000.00
• Travel opportunity to present to Nationwide Executive team and have your idea go through incubation

CONNECTED BUSINESSES WINNER:

• Cash Prize: $5,000.00
• Travel opportunity to present to Nationwide Executive team and have your idea go through incubation

BUYING YOUR FIRST HOME WINNER:

• Cash Prize: $5,000.00
• Travel opportunity to present to Nationwide Executive team and have your idea go through incubation

A COMMUNITY ON YOUR SIDE WINNER:

• Cash Prize: $5,000.00
• Travel opportunity to present to Nationwide Executive team and have your idea go through incubation

Challenges

Connected Businesses
Create a solution that integrates IoT and the corresponding data that can inform small or medium business owners on how to improve and create more efficient businesses.

Buying Your First Home
Create a product that will help millennials prepare for buying their first home.

A Community on Your Side
Build a solution that brings Nationwide Members in the same community together during a Catastrophe. (e.g. assist those you can’t connect with Nationwide for help, assist those who are unaware of what to do in a catastrophe situation)

Technologies

Nationwide APIs: 

Customer

• Returns basic customer information such as name and address along with insurance policy types (Home, Auto Renters)

Bank Account

• Returns bank account type and balance

Bank Loan

• Returns loan type, amounts, balance, and payment details

Bank Account Transaction

• Returns all the account transactions for a bank account, with the amount credited or debited, and a category (Restaurant, Loan, Store, Bill, Paycheck, Other) of the transaction.

Learn More

Supportive Technology and AWS Credits:

• Each participant will receive $100 in AWS credits
• A limited amount of Amazon Echos will be provided for your use, but feel free to bring any supportive tech you need.

Schedule

Wednesday, May 16th:

18:30 - 20:00 Pre-Nationwide Virtual Session via Zoom
Webinar Link: https://zoom.us/j/535984763
Meeting Number: 535984763

Saturday, May 19th:
09:00 - 10:00 Doors Open & Breakfast Served
10:00 - 11:00 Opening Ceremonies & Presentations
Presentations from Partners
11:00 - Coding Begins
12:00 - 13:00 Lunch Served
13:00 - 14:00 Breakout Session(s)
18:00 - 19:00 Supper Served
20:00 - 20:30 Pitch Workshop
21:00 - 21:30 Pitch Practice Session
24:00 - Midnight Snack

Hack through the Night*
*The venue will be open and staffed overnight if you’d like to hack through the night.

Sunday, May 20th:
07:00 - 08:00 Breakfast Served
12:00 - 13:00 Lunch Served
13:00 - Submission Deadline
14:00 - 15:00 Judging
15:00 - 15:30 Judge Deliberation
15:30 - 16:00 Closing Ceremony & Awards
16:00 - Event Close

Judging Criteria

Each submission will be scored in each round based on the following criteria with a minimum score of 0 and maximum score of 20 points, with the final score being the average of the judges’ scores:

• Simplicity (5 points): Is the application simple to use and can the team explain it clearly in three sentences or less?
• Creativity (5 points): How creative was the team in developing an innovative solution for the challenge?
• Impact (5 points): Did the team create an application that can have a real and valuable impact?
• Design (5 points): Was the UX/UI intuitive and appealing?

Rules

• Teams of up to 5 participants are allowed. All team members must have completed the participation agreement to compete.
• You may not being your project until the competition officially begins,. Please don’t come in and build on top of previous projects if you want to win.  
• Teams have full ownership of everything they build and are free to do with it as they wish whether they win or not.
• Winning teams will be subject to a code-review at some point following the event or immediately before the competition ends.
• Participants of this hackathon must be 18 years or older, or have reached the age of majority in the relevant jurisdiction.

MORE INFORMATION CAN BE FOUND AT  LINK: http://nationwidehackathon.com/