USAII® Global AI Hackathon 2026
Devpost hackathon: USAII® Global AI Hackathon 2026. Imported automatically.
- Year
- 2026
- Winning projects
- 15
- Participants
- 6,071
- Prize pool
- $15,000
- Platform
- Devpost
Winners
Grand Prize
- AlyoshaHigh School Grand PrizeThe help for life after prison already exists. It's just scattered. Alyosha turns it into one guided path home for the 600+ thousand people leaving prison everyClaudeSupabase
- Opioid Action EngineGraduate (Masters/Doctoral) Grand PrizeThe opioid epidemic doesn't wait for funding to catch up.ClaudeFastAPIGemini
- ZenCollege/Undergraduate Grand PrizeGoogle gives you a list. Zen guides you through, tells you where you qualify, explains why in your language, and follows through until help actually arrives. ThPythonSupabase
3rd Place
- Cabinet ClearHigh School Third PlaceAI agent that reads your hospital discharge letter and tells you exactly which medicines to keep, dispose, or replace — in seconds.FastAPIPythonPyTorch
- LaunchifyCollege/Undergraduate Third PlaceKnow what you don't know — before you build.ClaudeGeminiNext.js
- Team OutliersGraduate (Masters/Doctoral) Third PlaceDefeating the 911 queue: An AI triage system that intercepts overflow, dynamically clusters duplicates, and instantly prioritizes life-threatening emergencies.FastAPIPostgreSQLPython
Other
- CompassHigh School - Social ImpactA parent receives an electricity shutoff notice and doesn't know where to start. Compass turns a crisis described in plain words into a ready to file packet of AnthropicGroqReact
- Green Spark AIHigh School - Responsible AIFind the waste. Fund the change.ReactTypeScript
- HAVENCollege/Undergraduate - Responsible AIFacing eviction in England? HAVEN checks if your notice is even legal, shows how much time you have, and tells you exactly what to do next — based on the most rClaudeGroqJavaScript
- NAWIRICollege/Undergraduate - Social ImpactIn West Africa, families miss aid they're legally entitled to , not because it doesn't exist, but because the system is too hard to navigate. NAWIRI fixes that.Vercel
- NightSafeGraduate (Masters/Doctoral) - Responsible AIAI that helps city planners score road corridors according to street feature risks, estimate the cost of acting now versus waiting, and decide where to put nighPythonStreamlit
- SafeAid - AI Emergency Routing for SurvivorsGraduate (Masters/Doctoral) - Social ImpactAI-powered platform that routes trafficking survivors and vulnerable people to the nearest shelter, NGO, or emergency contact via SMS or the Web app (no smartphSupabaseTypeScript
- TowerguardGraduate (Masters/Doctoral) Runner UpTowerGuard quantifies the Cost of Doing Nothing in America's air-traffic-controller staffing crisis.AnthropicClaudeCloudflare
- TulongAICollege/Undergraduate Runner UpAI-powered benefits navigator helping Filipino families discover which of 4 government programs they may qualify for — in plain language, with real next steps.FastAPIPythonReact
- WayfinderHigh School Runner UpYour personal AI caseworker for U.S. refugee benefits. Answer a few questions, see what you qualify for, and let Wayfinder auto-fill your applications so you neJavaScriptPostgreSQLReact