Registration openChennai · Sports · intermediate · robotics, hardware, competition
A robotics competition in Chennai where teams build and control bots for soccer matches. Participants compete in 1-vs-1 or 2-vs-2 formats after a video submission screening. This event tests hardware engineering and teamwork skills.
Registration openChennai · Tech · intermediate · robotics, hardware, automation
RoboRun 2027 is a robotics competition at IIT Madras where teams build autonomous line-following bots to navigate mazes and displace blocks. It targets students interested in embedded systems, hardware engineering, and automation.
Registration openChennai · Sports · intermediate · robotics, hardware, engineering
An international combat robotics competition in Chennai where teams design, build, and battle robots in 8kg and 15kg categories. Participants showcase engineering skills and strategy through video submissions and live arena battles.
Registration openChennai · Education · intermediate · epigenetics, genomics, molecular-biology
A free competition for students to solve biological puzzles centered on epigenetics across three rounds: an online quiz, a written case report submission, and an offline final at IIT Madras requiring rapid adaptation and presentation defense.
OngoingOnline · Education · intermediate · computer-vision, machine-learning, wildlife-management
A free online hackathon where participants build machine learning tools to analyze trail camera images for wildlife research. Teams will predict deer attributes like antler status and age using computer vision techniques.
OngoingOnline · Education · intermediate · nlp, generative-ai, open-source
A competition to transcribe 19th-century handwritten archives from UW Libraries using open-weight AI models on a single GPU. This free online event targets developers and researchers interested in NLP and generative AI.
OngoingOnline · Tech · intermediate · rag, ai, sustainability
Build a RAG system to answer questions about AI's energy and water usage using 100+ research papers and reports. This free online competition tests skills in retrieval, citation accuracy, and sustainable AI analysis for students and professionals.
Registration openChennai · Education · beginner · neuropsychology, cognition, critical-thinking
MindShift is a free competition exploring the science of decisions through neuropsychology and cognition challenges. Open to students from all disciplines, it tests critical thinking, research skills, and problem-solving via quizzes and case studies.
Registration openChennai · Education · intermediate · biomimicry, innovation, sustainability
An interdisciplinary biomimicry competition in Chennai where students design sustainable engineering solutions inspired by nature. Open to all Indian undergraduate, postgraduate, and PhD students.
Registration openChennai · Tech · intermediate · neuroscience, machine-learning, python
A two-round hackathon where students use Python and machine learning to classify human emotions from real EEG brainwave signals. Open to undergraduates and postgraduates of any discipline, featuring an online quiz followed by a 24-hour offline challenge at IIT Madras.
OngoingOnline · Tech · intermediate · hackathon, software-development, ai-agents
Kiroween 2026 is a free online hackathon where teams of up to three build software applications using the Kiro platform. Participants compete in categories like reviving obsolete tech or creating spooky UIs, with $100,000 in prizes for innovation and implementation.
OngoingOnline · Tech · advanced · llm, membership-inference, code-evaluation
A technical competition challenging teams to build algorithms that detect if specific code files were used in training Large Language Models. Participants will perform file-level membership inference on code datasets using Python and machine learning techniques, with submissions