$5500+ In Prizes
1st
$1500
2nd
$750
Ship Fast, Ship Often - Build a Payworthy MVP in a Weekend
$800 Cash Prize
Can you create a product people would pay for in just one weekend? Join this track to build a minimum viable product (MVP) with real market potential. Whether it's an app, Chrome extension, or web app, your goal is to solve a real problem quickly and effectively. Focus on creating something simple, valuable, and marketable. Top projects win cash prizes, swag, and bragging rights!
Best Public Health Innovation
$500 Cash Prize
Presented by Palantir: This prize recognizes outstanding efforts in addressing critical public health challenges, improving patient outcomes, and/or enhancing community well-being. Award recipients will have demonstrated exceptional creativity, technical skill, and a dedication to making a meaningful impact on global health through thoughtful analysis and implementation of data-driven solutions.
Most Accessible Hack
$500 Cash Prize
Accessibility matters! This prize goes to the project that best improves urban living for people with disabilities, making city life more inclusive and accessible to all.
Best AI Hack
$400 Cash Prize
Spin up your GPUs and download some data! The project that best utilizes AI to enhance urban living, tackling city issues with advanced algorithms, will take home this prize.
Best Sustainability Hack
$400 Cash Prize
Go green or go home! This prize recognizes the project that most creatively tackles environmental challenges in the city, making urban living sustainable and eco-friendly.
Best Education Hack
$400 Cash Prize
Time to hit the books—or tablets! Awarded to the project that best improves urban education, making city learning more fun, accessible, and effective.
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