AMD Pervasive AI Developer Contest Submission Tips

Hello, fellow community members and contest participants, as the deadline 📆 for submission is approaching, please read through this project written for you to help you build up a high-quality ✨ entry.

Note that, your project should always totally reflect your style and logic, but there are some useful "tips" for essential elements you should not miss:

1. Submit now:

Click the "review and submit project" blue button 🟦 now to ensure your place in the contest queue, you can still keep making edits to your project up till the submission deadline of July 31 at 11:59pm PST.

You will see your entry turn into a green button 🟩 "submitted" if it's successfully entered into the contest and ready to be qualified.

If it's still the blue button 🟦 with "review and submit project" by the time of the submission deadline, your project remains in the draft mode of our contest entry queue and will not be included to be seen by the judges 😳.

You will also receive an email 📧 if you have successfully entered an entry into the contest after your submission ✅.

Then after the submission deadline, all project goes into a "lock" 🔐 mode up until the winner announcement 📣.

2. Read the judging criteria:

Familiarize yourself with the points of each criterion and weight points 💯 in the full rules. When reviewing your write-up, ensure that your project and process description addresses all the aspects of the rubric.

3. "Things" section:

Be sure to add these essential contest hardware/software in your BOM (Bill of Materials) and any other technology you used

• AMD Radeon Pro W7900 GPU
• AMD Instinct™ MI210 accelerators
• Kria™ KR260 Robotics Starter Kit
• Minisforum Venus UM790 Pro with AMD Ryzen™ 9
• AMD ROCm™ Software

**Not having the required hardware might result in you being disqualified during the pre-screen process for judging 🤯.

4. "Team" section:

Add all your team members and attributions.

Remember the “Women in Technology” award with a cash prize of $2, 500 USD. Teams composed of a majority (50% or more) of women are eligible to submit their projects for this prize, in addition to the three regular contest categories.

5. "Story" section:

Use narrative and visuals: fully utilize messages, diagrams, images, and videos to tell your story. Make sure your write-up is readable, concise, and clear.

Leverage formats and sections: We recommend presenting your project logically, including sections such as abstract, introduction, methodology, results, and discussion. This will help the judges clearly understand your thought process, objectives, and implementation steps. The following context is useful to include in your write-up:

• Approach
• Architecture
• Metrics
• Evaluation
• Results
• Comparison

** If you did not complete your original scope of work, it is highly recommended you document your process and challenge and have a section of "future work" to suggest potential and future directions.

You may browse through any other contest winner projects on our contest page to reference best practices and successful strategies of the "story" layout.

6. "Attachment" section:

Use this to add any GitHub or external links, schematic diagrams, 3D files for mechanical parts design.

If you are including your own dataset reference, use this section to provide a publically accessible link (such as Gdrive, Dropbox..)

7. Hardware after the contest:

If you're a hardware give-away winner, please note that when you accept the award, you are entered into a contract with Hackster (see full rules "how is hardware awarded" section) to deliver a project under the contest. You also get to keep the hardware after the contest 🎁.

For those who are facing scope or unforeseen challenges, please describe the circumstances in your project story, and include either a "future work" section or "lessons learned" even if your project is incomplete. Because Hackster has a back-end system to track hardware winners, if you do not submit a project, this might affect your credibility in the future to receive hardware awards from other contests 😐.