OngoingOnline · Education · intermediate · data-science, machine-learning, prediction
A free online data science competition challenging participants to build an astrological model that predicts whether a relationship lasted 30+ years. Using historical Wikidata records of birth dates and locations, competitors must create a genderless, order-agnostic prediction mo
Cincinnati · Education · beginner · hackathon, students, coding
A 24-hour in-person hackathon for students of all majors at the University of Cincinnati. Participants compete in tracks covering coding, business strategy, social impact, and augmented reality to build projects and improve skills.
Urbana · Education · beginner · hackathon, students, coding
A premier student-run hackathon at the University of Illinois where nearly 1,000 participants collaborate for a weekend to build websites, mobile apps, and other innovations. This free event offers substantial prizes and focuses on skill development through teamwork.
Newark · Education · beginner · hackathon, students, teamwork
HenHacks is a beginner-friendly, in-person hackathon for college students of any major at the University of Delaware. Participants will build projects, attend workshops, and network with sponsors over a weekend.
Lawrence · Education · hackathon, mlh, free-event
HackKU27 is a free student hackathon taking place in Lawrence from April 9 to 11, 2027, organized under the Major League Hacking network. Participants will engage in collaborative software development over three days.
OngoingOnline · Education · beginner · hackathon, finance, economics
A beginner-friendly online hackathon where participants build projects combining finance, economics, and coding to promote financial literacy. Teams submit video demos and source code for prizes based on technical execution, design, and social impact.
OngoingOnline · Education · intermediate · audio-classification, nlp, speech-processing
A free Kaggle competition where participants reorder shuffled audio segments of spoken dialogues using NLP and speech models like Whisper and Qwen2.5. Targeted at students and data scientists practicing sequence modeling and audio processing.
OngoingOnline · Education · intermediate · machine-learning, classification, nlp
A free online machine learning competition to classify multiple-choice questions from Russian state exams (ЕГЭ/ОГЭ) across 16 subjects including physics, math, and foreign languages. Participants build models for multi-class text classification using unique, non-leaked labels gen
OngoingOnline · Education · advanced · zero-shot, classification, ai-agents
This is a zero-shot AI competition where participants must solve Russian state exam questions (EGE/OGE) without any training data. It tests model generalization across subjects like physics and social studies using a unique dataset verified by the official FIP checker.
Registration openMumbai · Education · essay-writing, writing, english
A free monthly international essay contest for students and writers in Mumbai, offering Junior and Senior categories. Participants write original essays in English, Hindi, or Bengali on educational topics to demonstrate creativity and research skills.
Ongoing since 2018Online · Education · intermediate · kaggle, machine-learning, python
A free online competition for data science students and learners to practice predicting housing prices using regression techniques like random forest and gradient boosting. Participants apply feature engineering in R or Python to minimize RMSE errors on a dataset of Ames, Iowa ho
Ongoing since 2012Online · Education · beginner · computer-vision, machine-learning, python
An indefinite online competition teaching computer vision basics by classifying handwritten digits from the MNIST dataset. Targeted at students and beginners in machine learning using Python.