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Social Impact Hackathon Winners

933 winning projects · 185 hackathons

Best Overall Hack — First Place

Cadence

An app for voice-to-insight journaling, therapy, and coaching records

MacHacks 2026 · 2026

Artificial IntelligenceEducation
Source pending review
1st Place

CalmLayer

A crisis mode for the internet. One press turns chaotic, stressful pages into calm, step-by-step experiences for people who are panicked, elderly, injured, or o

Katy Youth Hacks 2026 · 2026

Social Impact
JavaScript
Source pending review
1st Place Intermediate

Canopy

Smarter urban tree dispatch anywhere. Crews routed by real need, weighted by situation. Live 311 data, drought stress, and equity-weighted AI briefings. Plug an

FutureHacks · 2026

Artificial IntelligenceSocial Impact
JavaScriptVercel
Source pending review
1st Place Winner (Worth up to 3388 CAD)

Carades

Looking to fire up your brain cells? Introducing charades with a twist - code your favourite coding concepts with your friends and see who can guess the fastest

cmd-f 2026 · 2026

Social Impact
FirebaseJavaScriptReactVercel
Source pending review
First Place Overall

Circa

Real-time field monitoring for precision irrigation control.

YHack Spring 2026 · 2026

Artificial IntelligenceEducation
ArduinoFastAPIPythonReact
Source pending review
Best AI-Powered App by Orchids (1st place: $300 cash, 2nd place: $200 cash)

Citadail

Citadail is an AI-native hedge fund where specialized AI coworkers research companies, build stock decision pitches, pass PM/risk checks, open paper trades, and

HackPrinceton Spring '26 · 2026

Artificial IntelligenceEducation
GeminiReactTypeScript
Source pending review
First place

Claudio

AI-powered visual assistant for individuals with dementia

Claude Builders AI Hackathon · 2026

Artificial IntelligenceEducation
React
Source pending review
1st Overall

codebreaker

AI-Native CyberSec — detect, validate, and fix vulnerabilities with agent intelligence, powered by an open harness and an expansive benchmark

LA Hacks 2026 · 2026

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

Confab

Detecting LLM confabulation from hidden-state geometry so AI tools in education can flag unreliable outputs before students trust them.

HackPrinceton Spring '26 · 2026

Artificial IntelligenceEducation
PythonPyTorchStreamlit
Source pending review
1st Place

Crab Hunt

Personalized AI scavenger hunt around your community!

Panther Hacks · 2026

Artificial IntelligenceSocial Impact
ArduinoVercel
Source pending review
1st Place

CravingCapital

Wall Street meets the menstrual cycle: algorithmic grocery arbitrage for your junk food cravings.

DUWiT Hacks 2026 · 2026

Social Impact
FastAPIGroqPythonReact
Source pending review
1st Place Beginner

CyberTree Net

CyberTree Net is a smart network of mechanical trees that filters air, saves urban space, and prevents deforestation. It is a powerful leap forward in our missi

FutureHacks · 2026

CybersecuritySustainability
Source pending review
DA
1st Place Gift Card

Data Readiness Desk

Turning a broad hospital dataset into planning-ready data, claim by claim, with evidence, leverage-ranked review, and an AI chat assistant

Databricks Apps & Agents for Good Hackathon 2026 · 2026

Artificial IntelligenceEducation
Source pending review
DY
First Place

DysFix

DysFix is a calm AI reading assistant for dyslexic students. We don't fix dyslexia - we fix the design failure of systems never built for neurodivergent brains.

AI4Good Hackathon · 2026

Artificial IntelligenceEducation
JavaScript
Source pending review
Energy / Power Stream - 1st

Electrigrid

Save your utilities, save the environment.

Hacked 2026 · 2026

ClimateProductivity
JavaScript
Source pending review
$250 Youth Culture Sponsor Prize | Sponsored by Youth Culture Inc | 1st Place Prize

Emergency Command Center (ECC)

ECC is an AI-powered emergency command center that triages calls, detects disaster surges, maps incidents live, and helps operators prioritize urgent cases when

IBM x UNSA Hackathon · 2026

Artificial IntelligenceEducation
ClaudeElevenLabsJavaScriptMapbox+3
Source pending review
Best Overall - 1st

FairPlay AI

Your AI Referee! FairPlay is a real-time computer vision system that makes instant line calls, tracks bounces, and keeps score using just your phone.

Build4Good 2026 · 2026

Artificial IntelligenceSocial Impact
FastAPIJavaScriptOpenCVPython+1
Source pending review
First Place Overall

FloodSense-PK

When monsoon clouds blind optical satellites, FloodSense-PK sees through them. SAR + AI + live river data = early flood warnings for millions of Pakistanis.

Next Byte Hacks V3 · 2026

Artificial IntelligenceSocial Impact
DockerFastAPIGeminiGroq+7
Source pending review
Overall 1st Place Hack(1 team)

Focus Guard

This is Focus Guard. It is a working extension which blocks sites which distract you and decrease productivity

PantherHack 2026 · 2026

ProductivitySocial Impact
Python
Source pending review
1st Overall

FocusLock

FocusLock uses AI to watch you study through your webcam — not your screen. Compete with friends in real-time, unlock achievements, buy new skins, share your wi

UCLA Hack on the Hill (HOTH) XIII · 2026

Artificial IntelligenceSocial Impact
ReactTailwind CSSTypeScript
Source pending review
1st Place – Inspire Award (Overall Winner)

FoodShare

Share your Food, Share your Love.

Design for Everyone by The Merge · 2026

EducationSocial Impact
FirebaseJavaScriptReact
Source pending review
Game Development Track: 1st place: Secret Prize (Per team member)

FourShot

A topdown 2D roguelike dungeon crawler shooter with a pixel art style.

SMCCD 2026 Hackathon · 2026

EducationSocial Impact
Source pending review
Beginner 1st Place

FuturoSeguro

FuturoSeguro is an app that provides immigrant families with the financial tools and knowledge to plan a secure future.

SolHacks 2026 · 2026

Social Impact
FastAPIPythonReact
Source pending review
Interactive Learning First Place

Harmonic

Harmonica is a software that allows users to learn instruments by air playing them, avoiding the expensive costs of learning an instrument. It allows users to l

Milpitas Hacks 3 · 2026

EducationSocial Impact
JavaScriptPython
Source pending review