Fly sky high with during this hackathon and win a pair of Sony Headphones!

Train your digital apprentice and turn data into discovery! As part of this prize track, develop your own model, combine data analysis and data visualization, and reveal some meaningful insights, outcomes or hidden trends. Win $400 in cash!

Let's look towards greener fields ahead! Develop a project that addresses environmental concerns and brings us closer to a self-sustaining, eco-friendly future. Win $400!

Build for better health! Create technology that addresses public health challenges, improves chances, and elevates community well-being. The winners take home $400!

Make something tangible! Bring your ideas from the psyche to the physical and win a mini 4K drone!

Give your project an AI edge. Whether it's your own model or an API key, use AI as an integral part of your project and win an air fryer!

First time at a hackathon? No worries! If more than half of your team is hacking for the first time, this track is for you. Make your big debut and win a Lego Technic Plane!

Work hard and play hard! Develop a game that's fun, challenging, and innovative, and win some Govee LED Blacklight Bars!

Small tech, big impact. Build a simple, and intuitive app for phones or emulators and win a mini projector!

Build a cybersecurity project that helps protect systems, uncover vulnerabilities, or make the digital world safer!

The top 3 teams will receive a 3-month subscription (for each team member) to RET2's Foundations of Software Exploitation Course.

Design responsible, ethical, and trustworthy AI agents.
$300 for first place. $200 for second place. $100 for third place.

See the full criteria here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1bms4DUXfHYGFGr-lZ59EgVEl0heW0xAJ/view?usp=sharing

Build an innovative voice AI experience using Fish Audio. We’re excited to see creative applications across conversational AI, games, education, accessibility, entertainment, productivity, agents, and more. Projects should meaningfully integrate Fish Audio’s API and
demonstrate an interesting or useful application of voice AI. Win $200 in Fish Audio API credits!

Most tools give you one piece of the puzzle — a model API, a database, a dashboard builder. Meanwhile, Databricks gives you the entire data and AI platform in one place. Ingest and transform raw data with Lakeflow pipelines, query it with SQL or Python notebooks, build and deploy AI agents using foundation models, spin up a managed Postgres database with Lakebase, create interactive dashboards using plain English with Genie, build your custom apps on Databricks Apps, and let Genie Code write and debug your code along the way. The best hacks this weekend won't just call an API — they'll move data end-to-end, from messy source to polished product. Sign up on Databricks Free Edition (yes, it's forever-free), and show us what a complete data and AI platform can do in your hands!

#1 Place:
Databricks Swag Kit + $500 in Databricks Credits per person
#2 Place:
Databricks Swag Kit + $250 in Databricks Credits per person
#3 Place:
Databricks Swag Kit + $100 in Databricks Credits per person

Digital Gift Card || GoDaddy Registry is giving you everything you need to be the best hacker no matter where you are. Register your domain name with GoDaddy Registry for a chance to win some amazing prizes!

M5Stack IoT Kit || MongoDB Atlas takes the leading modern database and makes it accessible in the cloud! Get started with a $50 credit for students or sign up for the Atlas free forever tier (no credit card required). Along with a suite of services and functionalities, you’ll have everything you need to manage all of your data, and you can get a headstart with free resources from MongoDB University! Build a hack using MongoDB Atlas for a chance to win a M5Stack IoT Kit for you and each member of your group.

MLH Swag Kits || It’s time to push the boundaries of what’s possible with AI using Google Gemini. Check out the Gemini API to build AI-powered apps that make your friends say WHOA. So, what can Gemini do for your hackathon project?

Understand language like a human and build a chatbot that gives personalized advice
Analyze info like a supercomputer and create an app that summarizes complex research papers
Generate creative content like code, scripts, music, and more
Think of the possibilities… what will you build with the Google Gemini API this weekend?

Arduino Student Kit || Play with industry-leading LLMs on a single account using the Snowflake APIs. Adding AI capabilities into your application can be as simple as a single CURL command to Snowflake’s REST API.

Build customized applications, RAG powered chat bots, or embed AI-powered features into your app in half the time with half the hassle. Get started for free with a special, student 120-day Snowflake trial and check out this repository for an example of the Snowflake REST API in action.

Assorted Prizes || Vultr empowers hackers to bring their high-performance projects to life instantly; providing everything from the speed of one-click deployment and scalable cloud compute, to specialized Vultr Cloud GPUs that can power AI-driven applications. We want you to push the limits of what can be built when infrastructure is no longer the bottleneck!

Sign up for a Vultr account today and claim your free cloud credits! Take your next hack to the cloud with Vultr for a chance to win some awesome prizes for you and your team!

Unruggable Hardware Wallets || The world of development is evolving fast and Solana is leading the charge with a network built to handle all of your infrastructure needs. Forget high fees and slow confirmations, it’s time to build applications that are fast, efficient, and scalable.

Harness Solana’s core advantages like blazing fast execution and near-zero transaction costs to make your hackathon ideas become real world projects. With Solana, the possibilities are endless.

Create a game, social app, or consumer product that relies on instant, high-frequency transactions.
Design a sophisticated trading, lending, or decentralized exchange (DEX).
Build a prototype for supply chain, identity, or payments that can handle massive, real-world volume.
Show us how you can innovate with Solana for a chance to win Unruggable Hardware Wallets for you and each member of your team!

Stream Deck Mini || Building high-performance apps under hackathon deadlines shouldn't mean spending half your weekend configuring complex databases or learning obscure query languages. Tiger Data extends PostgreSQL to give student developers an ultra-fast foundation for real-time data, time-series metrics, and complex analytics.

Why build with Tiger Data this weekend?

Standard SQL Power: Query massive datasets instantly using the SQL you already know, with no complex NoSQL aggregation pipelines required.

Unified Data Stack: Store relational user profiles and high-frequency metric streams side-by-side in a single database.

Instant Dashboards: Serve lag-free, real-time frontend charts using pre-computed Continuous Aggregates.

90%+ Data Compression: Store millions of events on free-tier cloud instances without running out of disk space.

Whether you’re building real-time IoT monitoring, AI-driven analytics dashboards, or financial prediction engines, show us how Tiger Data powers your project. The team that demonstrates the most innovative, impactful, and performance-driven use of Tiger Data will take home some great prizes!

Mechanical Keyboard || This weekend, assemble your ultimate hackathon A-Team using Cursor and Grok Bot to streamline your development, accelerate your builds, and lock in your shot at the SpaceXSI raffle. Every member on the winning team walks away with a custom-branded Cursor mechanical keyboard.

Here’s how you qualify:

Use Cursor as your core AI coding agent and integrate Grok Bot automation into your workflow.
In your project description, describe how you use both Cursor and Grok Bot.
Submit your project and be sure to opt-in to the SpaceXSI raffle.