Hackathon Content

Student hack workshops

Train the trainer materials and workshop materials for hands on hacks

Hackathon starter templates

a set of GitHub template repositories that you can clone into a new repo to create a boilerplate image recognition hack

Hackathon Azure app starter templates and Tutorials

a set of minimal app boilerplates and Tutorials on how they can be deployed to Azure App Service.

Happy Sad Angry

a hands on workshop creating an AI based game

Rock paper scissors lizard Spock

Interactive AI based hackathon workshop to train and play the Rock, Paper, Scissors, Lizard, Spock game

Use ML to classify Yoga Poses

This tutorial will go over how to use Azure Cognitive Services to get an image dataset and train a Custom Vision model. The repository has a simple nodejs console app that uses Bing Image Search to scrape images to a local directory based on search term(s). Then use the images scraped to create a Custom Vision model with Azure Cognitive Services.

Intro to NLP using SciKit Learn and Python

A project to introduce you to a simple Bag of Words NLP using SciKit Learn and Python.

Beginners Guide to Machine Learning with PyTorch

An Absolute Beginners Guide to Machine Learning with PyTorch

Cloud-scale machine learning workshop

A workshop designed to get attendees up to speed on the rudiments of modern machine learning at cloud scale.

Using The Microsoft Face API to Create Mario Kart Astrology

How to use the Microsoft Face API

Connecting your Domain.com domain name to your web app during an MLH hackathon

How to connect a Domain.com domain name to an Azure web app when at an MLH hackathon

Hack with Azure

Resources for students at hackathons

Hackathon To-Dos 101

A curated list on hackathon to-dos for folks who are new to hackathons

How to win a hackathon with Azure

Winning a hackathon requires focus on creating working prototype of your project very fast. Azure Platform Services can help you to achieve that, providing easy to use building blocks that can be put together quickly. During this talk, I demonstrate the use of three most useful services for hackathon scenarios: bot framework, cognitive services and azure functions. During the demo, I create a bot that is trained to recognize photographs of Triumphal Arches in different cities.

Cognitive Services and Science Art

Microsoft Cognitive Services are pre-trained AI models for things related to computer vision, text analytics, speech and more. They can be used as REST services from the cloud, or on the edge. While there are many business uses of Cognitive Services, in this talk we focus on rather unusual direction – Science Art, and creating Cognitive Portraits from photographs using Face API, affine transformations and a bit of creativity.

Azure for Hackathons Sizzle Reel

A sizzle reel of short videos describing what you can do with Azure