Awarded to the best overall project submitted to the hackathon

Prize: iPad + Apple Pencil

Awarded to the best metropolis-centric project

Prize: Apple Airpods Pro 3

Awarded to the best no-code project prototyped in Figma or another design software

Prize: Fujifilm Instax Mini 12 Bundle

Awarded to the project with the highest overall ranking, where at least 2/3 of team members are attending their first hackathon.

Prize: JBL Flip 5

Create a personalized city experience platform that uses technology to transform how people discover, engage with, and navigate urban spaces and enable trade and commerce using payment technologies. Focus is more on applicability and depth of solution, and what kind of large and small problems it can solve together.

Prize: $200 Visa Gift Cards for each member of the winning team

Prize: $250 gift cards to each member

This track is designed to equip participants with the knowledge and skills needed to maximize the potential of AWS for building, deploying, and managing scalable, secure, and cost-effective cloud solutions.

Prize: $1000 dollars in Amazon Gift Cards

Marshall Wace is always looking to develop innovative solutions that help us perform at the highest level. New generative AI technologies present a huge opportunity to do so. In our track, we want students to build applications or solutions that use generative AI in creative ways. An example would be a system that analyzes a set of tweets and ranks them based on sentiment or an agent that reads from a textbook using RAG to generate relevant study problems and answers. We anticipate participants will use tooling such as LlamaIndex, LangChain, RAG, structured outputs, and so on. What we’re not looking for is GPT wrappers or pure prompt engineering. We’d also love students to put some effort into validating the quality and accuracy of their tools as that’s quite an important and tricky aspect of this space.

Prize:
1st - $2000
2nd - $500
3rd - $250

Goal - Build and launch AI Agents on Agentverse, discoverable via ASI:One, that turn user intent into real, executable outcomes.

Design a multi-agent workflow that takes natural language goals, breaks them into multi-step plans, and adapts in real time to ensure success - while including built-in monetization so you can charge for usage, outcomes or features.
Use any agentic framework like Langgraph, CrewAI, ADK, etc. of your choice to bring your idea to life.

Deploy your agents to Agentverse and implement the Chat Protocol (mandatory) & Payment Protocol (optional) to support direct ASI:One interactions and built-in monetization.

Find full information here: [https://www.fetch.ai/events/hackathons/hack-brown-2026/hackpack]

Prize:
1st - $750
2nd - $500

It’s time to push the boundaries of what's possible with AI using Google Gemini. Check out the Gemini API to build AI-powered apps that make your friends say WHOA. So, what can Gemini do for your hackathon project? Think of the possibilities… what will you build with the Google Gemini API this weekend?

Prize: Google Swag Kits

Deploy natural, human-sounding audio with ElevenLabs. Create realistic, dynamic, and emotionally expressive voices for any project, from interactive AI companions to narrated stories and voice-enabled apps. ElevenLabs will empower you to build rich, immersive experiences without the need for actors or complex audio production, using simply the power of AI.

Prize: Wireless Earbuds

Presage is pioneering the Human Sensing Layer, enabling any application to understand a person’s real-time physical and emotional state. With Presage, you can leverage clinically-proven vital signs, movement, emotion, and/or focus tracking to build a project that gives the standard camera super powers. Use any of the Presage SDKs to integrate capabilities like real-time heart rate, breathing rate, engagement levels, and facial expressions into your hack with just a few lines of code.

Prize: SenseCAP Watcher & Presage Perks

The world of development is evolving fast and Solana is leading the charge with a network built to handle all of your infrastructure needs. Forget high fees and slow confirmations, it’s time to build applications that are fast, efficient, and scalable. Harness Solana's core advantages like blazing fast execution and near-zero transaction costs to make your hackathon ideas become real world projects. With Solana, the possibilities are endless.

Prize: Ledger Nano S Plus

Vultr empowers hackers to bring their high-performance projects to life instantly; providing everything from the speed of one-click deployment and scalable cloud compute, to specialized Vultr Cloud GPUs that can power AI-driven applications. We want you to push the limits of what can be built when infrastructure is no longer the bottleneck!

Sign up for a Vultr account today and claim your free cloud credits! Take your next hack to the cloud with Vultr for a chance to win some awesome portable screens for you and your team!

Prize: Portable Screens

Make your Team's Achievements timeless: Win a .Tech Domain Name for up to 10 years to Showcase and Expand Your Project, Plus Desktop Mics for Effortless Collaboration on Zoom, empowering you to build even more cool things together!

Prize: Desktop Microphone & a Free .Tech Domain Name for up to 10 years

MongoDB Atlas takes the leading modern database and makes it accessible in the cloud! Get started with a $50 credit for students or sign up for the Atlas free forever tier (no credit card required). Along with a suite of services and functionalities, you'll have everything you need to manage all of your data, and you can get a headstart with free resources from MongoDB University! Build a hack using MongoDB Atlas for a chance to win a M5Stack IoT Kit for you and each member of your team.

Prize: M5Stack IoT Kit