We are back! Given the great success of last year's AnimalHack 2024 and 2023, we are excited to invite you to this year's edition: AnimalHack 2025. 

Website: https://animalhack.org/ 

Discord: https://discord.gg/ZBbTxuxND2 

Email: [email protected]

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/animal.hack

Book Publication: Your project will be featured in a book. See the AnimalHack 2024 book and 2023 book for your reference. 

 

AnimalHack is a student-organized hackathon for anyone who interacts with any animals - including pets, service animals, farm animals and wild animals. We were disappointed with the lack of international, open hackathons that focus on animals, so we started our own. 

AnimalHack is a platform that inspires you to think of needs, wants and challenges in interacting with animals. It is intended to help you ignite creative solutions (hacks) with technology and innovate human-animal relationships. 

AnimalHack welcomes anyone of all ages and all technical skills, from limited experience to advanced. 

Entry is free. 

 

Expected project topics include, but are not limited to: 

* Contributing to animal wellbeing 

* Assisting animal owners 

* Assisting animal adoptions 

* Monitoring, conserving and improving the environment around animals 

* Observing, tracing and protecting wild animals 

* Breeding, rearing/farming and harvesting animals 

* Managing nuisance issues with wildlife

* Addressing animal abuse, cruelty and illegal capture/trade 

 

Solutions can take many different forms such as apps, games, social platforms, web sites/services, devices, robots, data collection/storage, data analysis/forecasts, data visualization, information retrieval, and 3-dimensional modeling/printing. 

AnimalHack is a “flexible” online hackathon. Participants can work on their projects anytime until the event starts. Each participant/team is required to submit a project presentation title and contact information by 12pm on September 6 (Sat), EST. 

AnimalHack will take place at 10am on September 7 (Sun), EST. Each participant/team will deliver a project presentation (~10 minutes) online. Various awards are available. A panel of judges will select award winners at the end of the event. 

AnimalHack is hosted by Binnovative, a nonprofit organization in Massachusetts.

We will publish a book that features the projects presented at AnimalHack 2025. Selected participants will be invited to extend their project abstracts and publish them as book chapters. We are planning to publish this book through Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing. See the AnimalHack 2023 and 2024 book for your reference: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0CSBPT21P, https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FDFYMGQ9

Organizers: 

Konomi Karube

Yuma Karube (Co-chair)

Naomi McCreary

Hanna Suzuki (Co-chair)

Alyssa Yasuhara

Rimi Yoshikawa

Requirements

Project Work: AnimalHack is a “flexible” online hackathon. You can work on your project anytime until 12pm on September 6 (Sat), EST.

Project Submission: You are required to complete ALL of the following 3 requirements:

  • Submit your project to Devpost by 12pm on September 6 (Sat), EST.
  • Register your project presentation on a Google Forms page by 12pm on September 6 (Sat), EST.
  • Give a project presentation online at September 7 (Sun), EST.

The deadlines are firm. No extensions will be given. Failure to meet the above requirements will disqualify you (and your team) in award judging.

A link for presentation registration will be shared in the AnimalHack 2025 channel of Discord. To register your presentation, you will be asked to submit:

  • Your name and contact info
  • Your country of residence
  • Your project presentation title
  • An abstract (short one-paragraph description) of your project
  • A publicly accessible link to your project placed on an online code repository (e.g. GitHub) or online storage (e.g. Google Drive). We will verify the actual outcome of your work with this link in the afternoon of September 6. Please note that we will not schedule your presentation if we cannot verify your actual work. You can submit a link to your project on Devpost; however, please make sure that the link references the actual outcome of your work.

Project Presentation: We tentatively plan to start project presentations at 10am, September 7 (Sun), EST, but we might slightly adjust it based on the locations (time zones) where participants reside. We will announce the full presentation schedule by early morning of September 7 (Sun), EST. A Zoom link will be made available in the AnimalHack 2025 channel of Discord.

You will have 10 minutes in total for your presentation, including approx. 3 minutes for QAs with judges and other participants.

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Prizes

9 non-cash prizes
Grand Prix
2 winners

-Certificate of achievement
-Will be invited to publish a book chapter about the project (priceless achievement!).

2nd Place
2 winners

-Certificate of achievement
-Will be invited to publish a book chapter about the project (priceless achievement!).

3rd Place
2 winners

-Certificate of achievement
-Will be invited to publish a book chapter about the project (priceless achievement!).

Honorable Mentions
1 winner

-Certificate of achievement
-Will be invited to publish a book chapter about the project (priceless achievement!).

Excellence in Entrepreneurship Award
1 winner

-Certificate of achievement
-Will be invited to publish a book chapter about the project (priceless achievement!).

Excellence in Research Award
1 winner

-Certificate of achievement
-Will be invited to publish a book chapter about the project (priceless achievement!).

Excellence in Creativity Award
2 winners

-Certificate of achievement
-Will be invited to publish a book chapter about the project (priceless achievement!).

Excellence in Social Impacts
1 winner

-Certificate of achievement
-Will be invited to publish a book chapter about the project (priceless achievement!).

Emerging Talent Award
2 winners

-Certificate of achievement
-Will be invited to publish a book chapter about the project (priceless achievement!).

Devpost Achievements

Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:

Judging Criteria

  • Impact
    How much impact (quality and quantity) can this project have? Does it solve a big problem or a small problem? Will it inspire or help many or a few?
  • Creativity
    How creative/innovative is this project? Is it something that hasn't been attempted before, or is it an incremental improvement on something that already exists?
  • Presentation
    How well did the team/individual communicate this project? Was the presentation effective in telling the story of the project: why it is important, what challenge it addresses, and how it delivers a solution?

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