RECAP OF THE EVENT

What is Forkwell Coronavirus Hack ?
OPENING
FINAL PITCHING
CLOSING & WINNER'S ANNOUNCEMENT
TOPIC 1 - DRUG DISCOVERY
https://github.com/forkwell-io/fch-drug-discovery
TOPIC 2 - VIRUS COMBAT
https://github.com/forkwell-io/fch-virus-combat
Winning Prize 🏅
1st Winner
- USD 1000 Cash
- AWS Credit USD 500
- DigitalOcean Credit USD 500
- Wild card to Sunway iLabs
2nd Winner
- USD 500 Cash
- AWS Credit USD 300
- DigitalOcean Credit USD 500
3rd Winner
- USD 200 Cash
- AWS Credit USD 100
- DigitalOcean Credit USD 500
For all Malaysian participants
- Chances to participate in CREST's TGL (The Great Lab) Grand Design Challenge with funding worth of RM1,500.
- Chances to be qualified for CREST's incubation program with grant worth up to RM50,000 plus facilitation.
- Opportunities to apply for CREST's R&D grant with exclusive coaching (the grant with minimum RM100k to RM200k for at least 24 months)
For all participants
- DigitalOcean Credit USD 100
Who are the judges?













Virtual Mentors














Rules and Regulations
- Base guidelines can be found here and on top of that, these rules mentioned here applies.
- You have full autonomy on how you structure and architect your project, this includes choice of language, choice of technology and target platform (however, the web is preferred).
- You are open to use and depend on any publicly available datasets and open source technologies.
- You have full ownership of your project including the option to continue contributing to the project after the event has ended. However, during the period of the event, the project has to be open sourced licensed.
- Your submission is only considered legitimate when you submit both 15-minute presentation video and a link to your forked repository off the hackathon kit template repository.
- For team submissions, you are required to display the name and github profile of your team members in the 15-minute presentation video as well as in your projects’ README.
Frequently Asked Questions
Sponsors & Partners
Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational technology company with headquarters in Redmond, Washington. It develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells computer software, consumer electronics, personal computers, and related services.
Malaysia Digital Economy Corporation (MDEC), their mission is the help build a sustainable digital ecosystem that will drive Malaysia's digital economy forward and benefit all Malaysians.
CREST (Collaborative Research in Engineering, Science and Technology) is a catalyst and change agent that drives the growth of Malaysia’s Electrical & Electronics (E&E) industry through market-driven research and talent development.
DigitalOcean, Inc. is an American cloud infrastructure provider headquartered in New York City with data centers worldwide. DigitalOcean provides developers cloud services that help to deploy and scale applications that run simultaneously on multiple computers.
Amazon Web Services is a subsidiary of Amazon that provides on-demand cloud computing platforms and APIs to individuals, companies, and governments, on a metered pay-as-you-go basis.
Sunway iLabs aims to foster entrepreneurship and stimulate market-driven innovations, to help entrepreneurs become more competitive in this rapidly changing environment.
A WHO recognized community-based project, powered by over 2,500 volunteers from across the globe, ranging from data scientists, medical professionals, UI/UX designers, fullstack developers, to the general public.
A tech institute that provides in-demand skills training in the areas of data science, digital marketing, and full stack web programming.
SIGNATE is an AI development platform and an operating company that allows data scientists and AI engineers from around the world to compete for optimal models and ideas for AI development and data analysis issues of companies and governments.
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