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Participants will work in teams to prototype solutions that could define how we live, learn, heal, and connect in an age of sentient technology. From adaptive learning systems to empathetic care networks, from regenerative sustainability tools to mind-body optimization platforms.

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Hackathon Sponsors

Prizes

$71,000+ in prizes
+ other prizes
DevTools - Main Track
$2,000 in cash
3 winners

1st Place: $2000 + MLH Winner Pins
2nd Place: $1000
3rd Place: $500

Healthcare - Main Track
$2,000 in cash
3 winners

1st Place: $2000 + MLH Winner Pins
2nd Place: $1000
3rd Place: $500

Education - Main Track
$2,000 in cash
3 winners

1st place: $2,000 + MLH Winner Pins
2nd place: $1,000
3rd place: $500

General - Main Track
$2,000 in cash
3 winners

1st place: $2,000 + MLH Winner Pins
2nd place: $1,000
3rd place: $500

The Token Company - Track 1: Alternative Compression Model
$2,000 in cash
3 winners

1st Place: $1000 + Claude Max 6-month subscriptions
2nd Place: $500 + Claude Max 6-month subscriptions
3rd Place: $500 + Claude Max 6-month subscriptions

The Token Company - Track 2: Innovative Application
$2,000 in cash
3 winners

1st Place: $1000 + Claude Pro 6-month subscriptions
2nd Place: $500 + Claude Pro 6-month subscriptions
3rd Place: $500 + Claude Pro 6-month subscriptions

Polymarket - Sponsor Track
$2,500 in cash
3 winners

1st Place: $1250 cash + Apple Airpod Maxes for all
2nd Place: $750 + Internship Interview
3rd Place: $500 + Internship Interview

Kairo - Sponsor Track
3 winners

1st Place: Apple Watches + Interview Internship + $1000 Kairo Tokens
2nd Place: Nintendo Game Boy + Internship Interview + $1000 Kairo Tokens
3rd Place: Internship Interview + $1000 Kairo Tokens

LiveKit - Sponsor Track
$1,500 in cash
3 winners

โ€1st Place: $750 and Keychron Q3 Max for team mates.
2nd Place: $500
3rd Place: $250
Honorable Mentions: LiveKit-branded Owala water bottles.

Arize - Sponsor Track
$1,000 in cash
1 winner

Seda - Sponsor Track
$1,000 in cash
5 winners

1st Most Points Team: $1,000
2nd Most Points Team: $750
Best Debate/Challenge Thread: $250
Most Novel Post: $250
Deepest Researched Chain: $250

Wood Wilde AI - Sponsor Track
$1,500 in cash
3 winners

1st Place: $750
2nd Place: $500
3rd Place: $250

DevSwarm - Sponsor Track
$2,000 in cash
3 winners

1st Place: $1,000 + Interview at DevSwarm to join the core product team
2nd Place: $500 + 1-year subscription to an AI coding tool of your choice
3rd Place: $500 + LOFREE Flow 2 84 keyboard or 1-year subscription to an AI coding tool of your choice
All participants: Free Student Plan + invite to the DevSwarm GTM Internship Program

Overshoot - Sponsor Track
3 winners

Prize Pool: Meta Ray-Ban Smart Glasses, Times Square billboard feature, and Hinge+ subscription and Clash Royale pass for one year.

First place gets first pick, second gets second, and third gets third.

TRAE (ByteDance) - Sponsor Track
$1,000 in cash
1 winner

1st place: $1000
2nd place: $500
3rd place: $500

Wispr Flow - Add-on Track
1 winner

1st Place: 1 year free of Wispr Flow Pro, a unique Wispr key, and Wispr swag

LeanMCP - Add-on Track
$500 in cash
3 winners

1st Place: Includes LeanMCP credits (usable across OpenAI, Anthropic, ElevenLabs) + Internship and New Grad interviews
2nd Place: Includes LeanMCP credits (usable across OpenAI, Anthropic, ElevenLabs) + Internship and New Grad interviews
3rd Place: Includes LeanMCP credits (usable across OpenAI, Anthropic, ElevenLabs) + Internship and New Grad interviews

Best UI/UX - Add-on Track
$1,000 in cash
1 winner

1st place: $1000

Best Technical Difficulty - Add-on Track
$1,000 in cash
1 winner

1st place: $1000

Most Impactful - Add-on Track
$1,000 in cash
1 winner

1st place: $1000

Best Solo Hacker - Add-on Track
$1,000 in cash
1 winner

1st place: $1000

Google Gemini - Add-on Track - MLH
1 winner

Best Use of Google Gemini API

1st Place: Google Swag Kits

ElevenLabs - Add-on Track - MLH
1 winner

1st Place: Beats Wireless Earbuds + 6 months of the Scale tier ($330/month value) + Winning project will be featured on the ElevenLabs Showcase.

Solana - Add-on Track - MLH
1 winner

Best Use of Solana

1st Place: Ledger Nano S Plus

DigitalOcean - Add-on Track - MLH
1 winner

Best Use of DigitalOcean

1st Place: Retro Wireless Mouse

MongoDB - Add-on Track - MLH
1 winner

Best Use of MongoDB Atlas

1st Place: M5GO IoT Starter Kit

.Tech - Add-on Track - MLH
1 winner

Best .Tech Domain Name

1st Place: Desktop Microphone + a Free .Tech Domain Name for up to 10 years!

Presage - Add-on Track - MLH
1 winner

Best Use of Presage

1st Place: SenseCAP Watcher + Presage Perks

Devpost Achievements

Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:

Judges

Ade Omitowoju

Ade Omitowoju
Executive Director at JP Morgan

Alex Denusek

Alex Denusek

Akash Thakur

Akash Thakur
YC

Akshat Prakash

Akshat Prakash
Cofounder of CAMB.AI

Akshay Patel

Akshay Patel
CMU President of Traders

Ali Teshnizi

Ali Teshnizi
Founder/Stanford

Alykhan Kora

Alykhan Kora
ex-founder

Ananya Singhal

Ananya Singhal
M&T and Google

Anir Prativadi

Anir Prativadi
YC

Arjun Nargowala

Arjun Nargowala

Aryan Sawhney

Aryan Sawhney
YC

Bryan Hong

Bryan Hong
YC

Damian Chng

Damian Chng
YC

Daniel Kathein

Daniel Kathein
YC

Daniel Martinez

Daniel Martinez
YC

Eldaniz Babayev

Eldaniz Babayev
Neuronav (in the Residency)

Erik Vank

Erik Vank
YC

Ethan Nlai

Ethan Nlai

Eunice Lai

Eunice Lai
Ex CMO Series

Fatimah Hussain

Fatimah Hussain

George Kalangi

George Kalangi
Apple

Jefferson Ding

Jefferson Ding
Clado

Jerry Zhang

Jerry Zhang
YC Founder

Justin Wu

Justin Wu
CMU AI Club

Mohan Sankaran

Mohan Sankaran

Musa Aqeel

Musa Aqeel
YC

Neha Suresh

Neha Suresh
YC Founder

Nick Srivastava

Nick Srivastava

Nikhil Devaraj

Nikhil Devaraj
YC

Philip Ho

Philip Ho
YC

Pierre-Louise Soulie

Pierre-Louise Soulie
Founder of Fable Engineering

Pietro Demicheli

Pietro Demicheli
YC

Ramanpreet

Ramanpreet

Rushil Saini

Rushil Saini

Sai Mandhan

Sai Mandhan

Saksham Sood

Saksham Sood
Cornell/Console

Shaheer Sandhu

Shaheer Sandhu
Susa

Shamus Madan

Shamus Madan

Theo Michel

Theo Michel
YC founding engineer / judged Calhacks

Tiger Zhang

Tiger Zhang
Antler Founder

Tingyu Su

Tingyu Su
CMU alum

Toms Ce

Toms Ce
Founder of Roam

Uma Venugopal

Uma Venugopal
Prev judge at HackMIT and Berkeley Hackathon

Vatsal Shah

Vatsal Shah
YC

Vivek Alamuri

Vivek Alamuri
Waterloo content creator

Vivek Isukapalli

Vivek Isukapalli
YC

Elly Peng

Elly Peng

Youssef

Youssef
Genesis Fund

Luis Gaspar Schroeder

Luis Gaspar Schroeder
Founding Member of Technical Staff at Universal AGI

Chetan Gautam

Chetan Gautam

Oliver

Oliver
V11

Otso

Otso
The Token Company

Ahmed

Ahmed
Openai

Ethan Ng

Ethan Ng

Jack Mcclelland

Jack Mcclelland
Afore

Judging Criteria

  • Dev Tools - General Track
    Ship a developer tool that saves time, reduces mistakes, or improves observability; something youโ€™d genuinely want in your own workflow.
  • Healthcare - General Track
    Build a solution that improves healthcare experiences by reducing admin burden, improving coordination, or helping people navigate care without requiring medical diagnosis.
  • Education - General Track
    Create a tool that improves learning outcomes by making education more personalized, accessible, and engaging for students, educators, or self-learners.
  • General Track
    Build a product that meaningfully improves a real-world workflow for students, creators, or communities in under 48 hours. Prioritize usefulness, clarity, and a tight demo over breadth.
  • The Token Company Track
    Category 1: Alternative Compression Modelโ€”Build the most innovative LLM input compression model or algorithm. Category 2: Innovative Application for Compressionโ€”Build the most creative application using The Token Companyโ€™s bear-1 compression model.
  • Polymarket Track
    Design and build advanced trading tools for Polymarket that help users better understand, visualize, and manage risk across time, price, and probability.
  • LiveKit Track
    Use our open-source framework and cloud services to build an agent that embeds into your application (or that your application is built around).
  • Kairo Track
    Build a blockchain-based application, protocol, or developer tool using Kairo.
  • Arize Track
    Bring Arize into the mix to help understand what your agent is doing and why, and then use our prompt playground or experiments to get your AI agent from โ€œsort of worksโ€ to โ€œalways works.โ€
  • Seda Track
    Participants will come together, form teams, and research anything they are interested in or actively working on using the Seda Deep Research Engine. Teams will then post their discoveries to the Seda social media platform.
  • Wood Wide AI Track
    Build a numeric decision workflow using Wood Wide AI. Using Wood Wide APIs, participants are asked to build an application that reasons over realistic structured data and supports a clear, real-world decision that a person or system would actually make.
  • DevSwarm Track
    Use DevSwarm to build your NexHacks project. Thatโ€™s it. Download DevSwarm and build your project end to end. Run multiple AI coding assistants in parallel on isolated branches. Ship quality code in half the time and credits.
  • Overshoot Track
    Participants are encouraged to use their creativity to build anything they are excited aboutโ€”whether thatโ€™s a UFC live commentator, an AI that watches your pet, or an assistant that monitors your screen while you study.
  • LeanMCP Track
    Your challenge is to solve a real-world problem using MCP and deploy the MCP on the LeanMCP platform. Participants are encouraged to use the LeanMCP SDK to build their solution.
  • Wispr Flow Track
    Participants are encouraged to build projects that incorporate speech-to-text technology using Wispr Flow.
  • ElevenLabs Track
    Build an innovative application that leverages ElevenLabsโ€™ voice AI technology to solve a real problem or create a compelling user experience. Your project should demonstrate creative and effective use of our technology.

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