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Education Hackathon Winners

2,374 winning projects · 487 hackathons

1st Place

NeuroBin — AI Waste Intelligence for Smart Cities

NeuroBin is not just a smart waste segregator. It is an AI-powered waste intelligence system designed to transform how cities handle waste at scale.

AI Autonomous Smart City Hackathon 2026 · 2026

Artificial IntelligenceEducation
ArduinoOpenCVPythonRaspberry Pi+1
Source pending review
1st - place amazon gift card

NeuroSketch

NeuroSketch: An AI-powered screening tool that helps paramedical workers detect early signs of Parkinson’s through simple motor, voice, and movement tests anywh

Health and Fitness Technology · 2026

Artificial IntelligenceHealthcare
GeminiOpenCVPythonStreamlit
Source pending review
First Place - Advanced

Nexus Lending

Buying a home is exciting; getting a mortgage shouldn't be exhausting. Nexus Lending uses AI to guide borrowers, automate underwriting, and eliminate the paperw

Weber State AI Hackathon 2026 · 2026

Artificial IntelligenceEducation
FastAPIJavaScriptPostgreSQLPython+2
Source pending review
AI Research and Alignment Environments by d_model [$500 for 1st, $250 for 2nd, $125 for 3rd (Amazon gift cards)]

Object State Tracking in Language Models

I investigate whether language models can track evolving object states across multi-step narratives or fail at state overwriting.

HackPrinceton Spring '26 · 2026

Artificial IntelligenceEducation
PythonPyTorch
Source pending review
First Place Prize

OmniGlove

Robotic training is slow. OmniGlove fixes this by mirroring 3D hand motion for intuitive real-time control. By capturing natural movement, we generate AI imitat

StarkHacks · 2026

Artificial IntelligenceEducation
ESP32
Source pending review
Track: Best AI Inference (1st Place)

OpenReality

OpenClaw in the real world! Generate and reason in a 3d map with just your phone!

HackIllinois 2026 · 2026

Artificial IntelligenceEducation
ClaudeFlaskGeminiPython+2
Source pending review
First Place winner

OurCampus

Turn free time into friend time

JACHacks 2026 · 2026

Artificial IntelligenceEducation
ElevenLabsGeminiJavaScriptPostgreSQL+4
Source pending review
1st Place

Outbreak: Save The Rig

Prevent the rig from spilling oil into the ocean or failing, all while fighting off hordes of zombies!

Hack For The World 2026 · 2026

EducationSocial Impact
JavaScript
Source pending review
FinHack 1st Place

Overseer

OverSeer is an AI-powered cybersecurity platform that stops financial fraud before it happens by detecting, blocking, and analyzing browser-based transaction at

MarinHacks · 2026

Artificial IntelligenceEducation
Claude
Source pending review
[Neptune North] CHALLENGE 2: ‘STUDENT LIFE’ - First place

Overtake

Overtake is a fast-paced AI-powered study game where students upload notes, generate adaptive quizzes, and race friends around a track by answering questions ou

DUWiT Hacks 2026 · 2026

Artificial IntelligenceEducation
AnthropicFirebaseJavaScriptReact
Source pending review
Best Storytelling & Entertainment Project 1st Place

Paper Trail

The Paper Trail is a WebXR story experience where players embody a paper airplane through an enchanted Ancient Egyptian household.

Worlds in Action Hack [02-LA] · 2026

Artificial IntelligenceEducation
WebRTC
Source pending review
PA
1st Place

Passline

The only thing worse than a broken ramp is a broken bank account. ADA compliance, made easy.

Hack Indy 2026 · 2026

Artificial IntelligenceEducation
FastAPIJavaScriptMongoDBOpenCV+4
Source pending review
1st Place Prizes!

PatchWork

A self-healing execution layer for inventory machinery

CreateRU 2026 · 2026

Artificial IntelligenceEducation
OpenCVPythonPyTorchStreamlit
Source pending review
Best use of Render 1st

PayTrack

Fight back against employers blatantly stealing from you.

STEMist Hacks IV · 2026

Education
ClaudeJavaScriptReact
Source pending review
[Skyscanner] 1st place

PearPost

A serverless agent communication network where personal AI agents discover each other, exchange messages, delegate tasks, and coordinate decisions from develope

HackUPC 2026 · 2026

Artificial IntelligenceEducation
JavaScript
Source pending review
Best First-Time Builder

Penetron

Penetron proves vulnerabilities instead of just flagging them: an AI agent exploits your running app to confirm what's real, governed end-to-end by UiPath.

UiPath AgentHack · 2026

Artificial IntelligenceEducation
AnthropicClaudeReactTypeScript
Source pending review
1st Overall

Penguin

Penguin is an AI agent that lives inside your iMessage group chat. Add it like any other member, @mention it, and it answers with memory of all the inside jokes

SCU Hack-a-Stack - Endurance Track · 2026

Artificial IntelligenceEducation
CloudflareFastAPIPython
Source pending review
1st Prize

Personal Practice Intelligence

Practice memory for architects and designers. An agentic teammate for students at heart, keeping the reasoning behind every reference, and recalling it when a s

TheFirst Spark 2026: Youth Symposium · 2026

Artificial IntelligenceEducation
JavaScriptOpenAIPostgreSQLSupabase+1
Source pending review
Best Security or Privacy Hack 1st

PhishLens

PhishLens is a privacy-first Android security shield that combines real-time browser and SMS interception with Groq AI intelligence to instantly detect and bloc

STEMist Hacks IV · 2026

Artificial IntelligenceEducation
GroqKotlin
Source pending review
1st Prize

PiedPiper

A multimodal compression platform for LLM context windows. Whether it's text or video, we'll make it small.

FoundersHack Sydney 2026 · 2026

Artificial IntelligenceEducation
Hugging FacePythonPyTorch
Source pending review
1st price - DAMM Challenge

PimPamDamm

AI-powered logistics that loads smarter, routes faster, and guides drivers turn by turn — turning every delivery truck into an intelligent, self-optimizing oper

InterHackBCN · 2026

Artificial IntelligenceEducation
FlutterGeminiJavaScriptPython+2
Source pending review
1st Place Theme

Pitchside

The football archive you can walk into.

United Hacks V7 · 2026

EducationCreative Tools
PythonReactTypeScript
Source pending review
Kindly Labs winner 1st place

PlanWise

Custom AI plans with a polished and interactive experience.

Kindly labs weekly hackathon · 2026

Artificial IntelligenceEducation
JavaScriptReact
Source pending review
First Place Prize

Polymates

Polymarket for your group chat. Friends bet virtual points on Yes/No questions, submit evidence, and an AI judge delivers a sarcastic verdict.

2026 DevSoc Halftime Hackathon · 2026

Artificial IntelligenceEducation
ReactTypeScript
Source pending review