**Leaderboard Prizes**: Awarded based on private leaderboard ranking.

* 1st Place - $8,000
* 2nd Place - $4,000
* 3rd Place - $3,000

**TPU Star Prizes**: Awarded to the most knowledgeable and helpful TPU experts in the community.

* Three $1,000 Prizes

"TPU Star" prizes will be evaluated by experts from Google, on the following criteria:

1. Forum and notebook discussion/comment contributions
2. Quality of code samples in public notebooks and/or forums
3. Thoughtful analysis and explainability of code content

You may become eligible for these prizes either of two ways:
* Kaggle-identified: Kaggle will query all participants in the competition contributing upvoted public notebook(s) and making discussion contribution(s).
* Self-nominated: [Submit this form](https://www.kaggle.com/tpu-star-submission-form) **by February 28, 2021** to self-nominate for consideration. At a minimum, you must have shared a public notebook which uses Kaggle's TPU integration on this competition's dataset.

> Be aware that because this is a code competition with a hidden test set, internet and TPUs cannot be enabled on your submission notebook. Therefore TPUs will only be available for training models. For a walk-through on how to train on TPUs and run inference/submit on GPUs, see our [TPU Docs](https://www.kaggle.com/docs/tpu#tpu6).