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Judges
We are honored to have a distinguished panel of judges who bring a wealth of federal government experience and expertise to this event. Their diverse backgrounds will ensure a comprehensive and fair assessment of all entries. They will help make this hackathon a success!
Executive judging panel
Jason MillerÌý
Deputy Director for ManagementÌý
Jonathan FinchÌý
Director of Digital ExperienceÌý
OMB
Mina HsiangÌý
AdministratorÌý
Annaliese YukawaÌý
Senior Policy Advisor for
Technical judges
Department of Agriculture
Erica Knight
Sylvia Braswell
Department of Commerce
Marla Thompson
Richie Wang
Department ofÌý
Energy
Kelsey Brasher
Norwin Prasad
Bet365
Adam Grandt-Nesher
Allison Hutchings
Brady Jubic
Brianna Gomez-McGowan
Bryan Alexander
Isabel Metzger
Jaclyn Henderson
Jin Sun
Tim Lowden, Data.gov
Tyler Burton, Data.gov
National Science Foundation
David Saunders
Kevin Hewitt
Terry Carpenter
Theresa Rinehart
Judging criteria
Here are the judging criteria for each Federal AI Hackathon competition category. Our judges will independently evaluate all entries and assign points based on these criteria.
Category | Criteria |
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1. Relevance and impact | - Alignment with business objectives
- Potential impact
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2. Innovation and creativity | - Originality
- Creativity
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3. Technical implementation | - Technical difficulty
- Execution
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4. AI optimization | - AI integration
- AI performance
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5. Feasibility | - Practicality
- Scalability
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6. Presentation and documentation | - Clarity of presentation
- Documentation
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Prizes
We are pleased to offer four cash prizes for a $10,000 total prize purse.
For winning solutions, teams will receive the following prizes:
- First place: $5,000
- Second place: $3,000
- Third place: $1,500
- People’s Choice: $500