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Note: This repository has been frozen while we consider the submissions for the QHack Open Hackathon. We hope you enjoyed the event!

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Welcome to QHack, the quantum machine learning hackathon! We're thrilled to have the opportunity to meet and work with such a large and diverse group of participants, and we look forward to interacting with you all during the event.

This year's event consists of three main components:

The up-to-date event schedule can be found here.

Power Ups and Prizes

QHack has some amazing goodies and prizes available to be won, courtesy of our sponsors.

Credits for AWS

  • Earn $250 in AWS credits: At the conclusion of our Feb 19 live stream, the top 80 teams on the scoreboard will receive $250 credits to help them build their Open Hackathon solutions on AWS. Teams can apply credits to any AWS service, including Amazon Braket where they can showcase their ideas on Rigetti, IonQ, and D-Wave hardware or with high-performance simulators in the cloud.

  • Earn $4000 in AWS credits: Teams who open an issue by Feb 24 on this GitHub repository with a description of their (in progress) Open Hackathon project are eligible for $4000 in additional AWS credits to use towards their hackathon project.

Access Sandbox's Floq Simulator

  • Alpha access to TPU-based quantum simulators: The top 50 teams in the challenge will each receive an API key for the alpha of Sandbox@Alphabet's Floq API. Discover more details about Floq@QHack here.

  • Floq Cash Prize: The team with the best usage of Floq by the end of the Open Hackathon will be eligible to receive a $2500 cash prize. See here for more details.

Grand Prize

  • Win a summer internship at CERN: The top overall team (judged by QML Challenge scoreboard ranking and Open Hackathon project) will receive up to 3 summer internship positions at CERN.

Please read our terms and conditions for official eligibility and evaluation criteria. Entry void in Quebec.

Participants in the event agree to abide by the QHack Code of Conduct.

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