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SWECCathon 2026

Devpost hackathon: SWECCathon 2026. Imported automatically.

Year
2026
Winning projects
10
Participants
34
Platform
Devpost

Winners

1st Place

  • RhetBench1st Place OverallRhetBench — a benchmark testing whether AI agents can persuade an NPC on a real-world topic. The character's hidden personality determines which persuasion straFastAPIPython

2nd Place

  • Sokoban2nd Place OverallCan an LLM reason about physical space and consequences? Sokoban: push boxes, climb ramps, reach the goal, but one wrong move soft-locks the level. Understand yJavaScriptPython

3rd Place

Track Winner

  • Efficient Scientific DiscoveryFuturistic Track WinnerEvaluate whether agents can identify hidden scientific laws by selecting informative experiments under budget and observation noise.GeminiJavaScriptPython
  • JengaBenchGames Track WinnerEvaluates visual-spatial reasoning and strategic decision-making of LLMs in a deterministic 3D Jenga environment.DockerFastAPIJavaScript
  • Orbital PlannerAGI & Real World Track WinnerPlans impulsive burns to rendezvous with moving satellites or moons in 3D Earth orbit; the Mesocosm AI agent explains strategy and outcomes; a deterministic phyJavaScriptPython
  • UnderlieFuturistic Track WinnerA benchmark to test AI's ability to create emotions.Python

Honorable Mention

  • Citation TrapHonorable Mentions!Right answer, invented sources. Citation Trap is a benchmark that scores LLM citation faithfulness vs. answer correctness across 500 questions, catching models AnthropicFastAPIGemini
  • Clue-LessHonorable Mentions!Benchmarking LLM's abilities and approaches towards solving a non-deterministic cryptic puzzle called MinuteCryptic.Python
  • PikachuHonorable Mentions!N/APython