Pervasive AI Developer Contest

If you are a winner, we will contact you directly via email to arrange the shipment of your prize.

Participants who receive free hardware and do not submit a project may be ineligible for future giveaways unless the hardware is returned.

If you receive free hardware and become unable to submit a project, please contact us at help@hackster.io and let us know as soon as possible. We may choose to arrange for the hardware to be shipped to another participant.

To be eligible for judging, you must meet ALLthe following requirements.

General Requirements

• You must be registered as a participant for this Contest.
• Your entry must be original to the entrant(s) and cannot have been previously publicly displayed in any manner.
• Your entry cannot have been previously selected as a winner in any other Contest.
• Your team is made up of no more than 5 members per entry.
• By entering this contest, you will automatically be added to the AMD AI Developer’s Program.

*By entering a submission to this contest on behalf of a team, you acknowledge that you are the designated representative authorized to act on behalf of your team. (See full rules below for details)

Hardware Application Requirements

Note: If you choose to submit an application for free hardware or cloud access, you must meet the following requirements. If you will not require hardware or cloud access, continue to 'Hardware/Software Build Requirements' below.

• Your hardware and cloud access application must be submitted via the online application form found on the Contest’s “apply for hardware & cloud access” tab.
• Your application must be written in English.
• You must score 80 or higher on the quiz that is relevant to the Contest category you are applying to.
• Your application must use, as applicable to the corresponding Contest category, an AMD Instinct™ MI210 accelerator, AMD Radeon™ PRO W7900 GPU, AMD Ryzen™ AI -Enabled mini-PC or the AMD Kria™ KR260 Robotics Kit.
• Your hardware and Cloud access application must be submitted via the online application form found on the Contest page’s “Apply for Hardware” tab.
• Your hardware or cloud access application must be submitted by February 29th, 2024 11:59P PT

Note: For participants located in China, the hardware application process should be completed with the following links.

Complete both the hardware application and quiz on either the Chinese website or Hackster.io, please do not duplicate applications.

Registration Link to China Contestants

Hardware/Software Build Requirements

• ·Your project must be created using the required hardware for the category you applied for.
• ·Your project must be created using the following: - AMD Instinct™ MI210 accelerator + AMD ROCm™ or Radeon™ PRO + ROCm - KR260 + Vitis™ AI or PYNQ - Select AMD Ryzen™ processor-based laptops with Ryzen™ AI enabled* + Ryzen™ AI Software Platform
• Your project must solve a problem related to the associated category for your entry.

Project Documentation Requirements

· Your project must include a project name, short project description, cover image, bill of materials (BOM), full instructions, images, and relevant resource files (schematics CAD, commented code, reference models, etc.).

• Your project must be written in English.
• Your project must be submitted by June 30th, 2024.

·Special Prize Category Requirements

• To be eligible for the "Women in Technology" prize, you must be female. If you are entering as a team, your team must have at least 50% female participants.
• To be eligible for the "AMD University Program " prize, you must be a student actively studying in a university program.

Your project will be judged according to the rubric below.

• Project Documentation (30 points)
  Story/Instructions - Show how you created your project, including images, screenshots, and/or a video demonstration of your solution working as intended. Ask yourself: “If I were a beginner reading this project, would I understand how to recreate it?”
• Complete BOM (10 points)
  Detail the hardware, software and/or tools used.
• Code & Contribution (30 points)
  Include working code with helpful comments.
• Creativity (30 points)
  Your idea doesn’t have to be original, but it should be creative (a fresh take on an old idea is often worth as much as a brand new idea)

• 1st Place: $10,000 E GiftCard
• 2nd Place: $5,000 E GiftCard (2 are available)
• 3rd Place: $3,000 E GiftCard (5 are available)

• 1st Place: $10,000 E GiftCard
• 2nd Place: $5,000 E GiftCard (2 are available)
• 3rd Place: $3,000 E GiftCard (3 are available)

• 1st Place: $10,000 E GiftCard
• 2nd Place: $5,000 E GiftCard (3 are available)
• 3rd Place: $3,000 E GiftCard (5 are available)

• 1st Place: $10,000 E GiftCard
• 2nd Place: $5,000 E GiftCard (3 are available)
• 3rd Place: $3,000 E GiftCard (5 are available)

• $2500 E Giftcard

• $2500 E Giftcard

Step 1: Register

• Start by creating a free account on Hackster.io (or sign-in if already a member).
• Register for the contest by clicking “Register as a participant”.

Step 2: Apply for free Hardware & Complete the Category Quiz:

If you do not need free hardware or cloud access, please proceed to Step 4

• You must first take the hardware quiz to qualify for free AMD hardware. Submission for free hardware closes February 29th, 2024.
• You must score 80% on the quiz to qualify. You have an unlimited number of attempts to take the quiz. Scoring over 80% does not guarantee free hardware, only qualification to receive it.
• You will be notified after February 29th, 2024., if you’ve qualified for free hardware or cloud access.

Step 3: Fill out the Submission Form

• Fill out the Project submission form under the "Apply for Hardware" tab: this form will include multiple fields like your name, what you’re planning to create, the components included in your project, the expected total hours your project will take, your skill level, and planned solution details.

What happens if you applied for hardware but did not qualify? You can still join the contest!

• If you applied for free hardware but did not qualify, you can still join the Contest by purchasing your own hardware. Please refer to hardware requirements tab under each category for more details.

Step 4: Build and Document Your Project

• If you qualified and received AMD hardware or cloud access, or purchased your own AMD products, you are ready to begin building your project. Be sure to follow the submission requirements.
• Document your project build using Hackster’s project template. To create a new project, click “create new project” on the Contest page or the “+” symbol in the top right corner of Hackster.

Step 5: Review and submit your project for the Contest

• Review your project and make sure it meets all the submission requirements.
• Upload a previously created project by clicking “add existing project” on the contest page.
• Submit your project by June 30th, 2024 at 11:59 PM PT by clicking “review and submit project” on the contest page.
• If you have any questions about joining the Contest or submitting your project, reach out via the Contest Discussion Board.

Free devices winners will be announced by March 19, 2024. The list of winners will be visible on the Apply for hardware tab.

Contest winners will be announced on October 10, 2024. The list of winners will be visible on the main page (Contest brief).

The Contest is open only to persons who are at least the minimum age of majority in their place of residence at of the start of the Entry Period (defined below), and who submit a valid Entry (as defined below) (“Entrant”).

Any national of Belarus, Burma, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Russia, Syria, Sudan, Venezuela, and/or any country prohibited by law or export restrictions or otherwise, regardless of legal residency, will be disqualified. Residents of the regions of Crimea, Donetsk, and Luhansk are not eligible. Employees of Sponsor, its subsidiaries, affiliates and agents, and the immediate family (defined as parents, children, siblings, domestic partner, husband or wife) of each such employee, together with those with whom such employees are domiciled, are ineligible.

By participating in the Contest, Participants warrant that they are eligible to participate under the applicable local laws governing procurement of prizes and awards. Sponsor reserves the right to disqualify any Participant if Sponsor determines, in its sole discretion, that Participant’s participation in the Contest or receipt of prize would violate local law or cause damage to the reputation of AMD and/or any other party. Entrants may be required to submit proof of their eligibility.

Agreement to Official Rules

Entry in the Contest constitutes the Entrant’s full and unconditional agreement to, and acceptance of, these Official Rules and the decisions of the Sponsor and/or Administrator, which are final and binding. Winning a prize is contingent upon fulfilling all requirements set forth herein.

You are eligible to enter if you meet the following requirements at the time of entry:

• You are at least 18 years of age. If you are 18 years or younger, you must receive a legal guardian's permission and have them complete Hackster’s contest permission form prior to submitting an entry into this contest. Send any questions to contests@hackster.io.
• You are not involved in the execution or administration of this contest.
  You are not an immediate family member or household member of a Hackster, AMD or Avnet employee.

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