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QHack Open Hackathon

Show the world what you've got in this open-ended hackathon!

Grand Prize

The top team will receive summer internships at CERN (up to 3 positions available).

The winning entry will be determined based on the following collective criteria:

Open Hackathon project:

  • Scientific and/or technical ability demonstrated.
  • Overall quality of presentation.
  • Depth of use of the quantum computing software and hardware stack.

QML Challenge Leaderboard:

  • A max of 20 teams will have their projects judged for the Open Hackathon Grand Prize, based on the their position in the QML Challenge Leaderboard rankings.

Some eligibility conditions apply. Please see here and here for a description of the CERN internship program.

Power Ups

$4000 in AWS credits are available for up to 20 teams on Feb 24. These credits can be used to finish off your hackathon project on AWS Braket. This Power Up is available independently of whether your team received any Power Ups from the QML Challenges.

To submit an entry for this Power Up, your team must open a new Issue on this GitHub repo which describes your (in-progress) hackathon project by Feb 24 at 12PM EST. Specifically, this issue should contain:

  1. The name of your team (matching the name used on the QML Challenge Scoreboard).
  2. A brief description of your Open Hackathon project (1-2 paragraphs).
  3. A hyperlink to draft source code for your Open Hackathon project.
  4. A 1-2 paragraph written Resource Estimate, indicating how you expect to use the additional AWS credits, if awarded, to finish your Open Hackathon project.

Timeline

Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat
Feb 19: Earn $250 Power Up AWS credits from QML Challenge Leaderboard
Feb 22: Open Hackathon begins. Live stream on twitch.tv/qhack to provide guidance on setting up and using Amazon Braket (10AM EST) Feb 24: Submit entry for $4000 Power Up AWS credits (by 12 PM EST) Feb 26: Open Hackathon concludes (6PM EST)

How do I take part?

To submit your team's entry for the Grand Prize, simply open an Issue on this GitHub repo summarizing your project. Specifically, this issue should contain:

  1. The name of your team (matching the name used on the QML Challenge Scoreboard).
  2. A brief description of your project (1-2 paragraphs).
  3. A hyperlink to an explanatory presentation of your team’s hackathon project in a non-technical form (e.g., video, blog post, jupyter notebook, website, slideshow, etc.).
  4. A hyperlink to the final source code for your team's hackathon project (e.g., a GitHub repo).

What hackathon project should my team do?

The QHack Open Hackathon is open-ended. The choice of topic is completely up to you! You could brainstorm a new idea with your team, or start from one of the following seed ideas:

  1. Implement a QML idea from the literature—or from one of our guest speaker presentations—in code
  2. Create a self-contained tutorial or demonstration of an idea from QML (and submit it the PennyLane Community page!)
  3. Extend one of the QML Challenge problems in a novel or interesting way
  4. Repurpose one of the PennyLane demos to run on a quantum hardware device
  5. Submit a Pull Request to an open-source library with a new QML-related feature

All entries are subject to the QHack Terms & Conditions.