New York · Education · beginner · hardware, robotics, hackathon
A 24-hour in-person hardware hackathon at Columbia University for students to design and prototype physical projects, including a healthcare robotics track. Teams of 1-4 receive free food, hardware, and mentorship.
Cincinnati · Tech · beginner · hackathon, hardware, security
A 24-hour hybrid hackathon by IEEE at the University of Cincinnati offering free participation with significant prizes. Teams work on hardware, education, social impact, or security projects using provided tools and APIs.
Cincinnati · Tech · beginner · hackathon, hardware, security
A 24-hour hybrid hackathon by IEEE at the University of Cincinnati offering free entry, workshops, and prizes. Teams build projects in hardware, education, social impact, or security tracks, welcoming both beginners and experts.
Vancovuer · Tech · beginner · hackathon, web-development, design
A free 2-day in-person hackathon in Vancouver designed for first-time hackers and beginners. The event includes skill-building workshops on web development and design, followed by an overnight build day to create projects focused on accessibility and diversity.
Hamilton · Health · beginner · hackathon, healthcare, neuroscience
BioHacks 2026 is a free two-day hackathon in Hamilton where students from diverse fields team up to design solutions for neurological conditions. Teams develop evidence-backed proposals and pitch them to judges after working through a structured case study.
Calgary · Tech · beginner · hackathon, mlh, social-impact
A free, two-day in-person hackathon in Calgary where Canadian students collaborate to build software solutions for social impact. Teams compete over 24 hours to create prototypes addressing real-world problems, with $10,000 in prizes awarded based on innovation and technical exec
Richardson · Tech · beginner · hackathon, students, coding
HackUTD is a 24-hour university hackathon at the University of Texas at Dallas for students to innovate and learn new technologies through coding challenges. This free event offers workshops, food, and team-based activities over two days.
OngoingOnline · Tech · intermediate · python, knime, classification
An online Kaggle competition for course 32130 where participants build classifiers to predict diabetes binary outcomes. Students use Python or KNIME to preprocess data and optimize models for evaluation via ROC curve.
Registration openNew Delhi · Business · intermediate · marketing, case-study, pitching
A free marketing case competition for undergraduate and postgraduate students in New Delhi. Participants solve real-world business challenges through a quiz, a written case submission, and a final pitch presentation before judges.
OngoingOnline · Tech · beginner · augmented-reality, ai-agents, lens-studio
This free online hackathon teaches participants to design and build AR lenses for Snap's glasses using AI coding agents in Lens Studio. No physical glasses are required; attendees will create working prototypes, planning documents, and learn AR-specific design strategies.
OngoingOnline · Education · advanced · ai, research, kaggle
This is a free online research competition on Kaggle where participants submit written analyses of their solutions to the ARC-AGI-2 or ARC-AGI-3 challenges. It targets researchers and developers focusing on AI generalization and adaptive learning, requiring a detailed paper and c
Registration openKolkata · Business · intermediate · product-management, marketing, strategy
A free national competition for Indian students blending product management and marketing strategy. Teams compete to solve real-world business problems using first-principles thinking and data-driven frameworks.