Code for Impact 2025 is starting soon! Register now here!
About the challenge
Code for Impact takes place online across 2 days. You’ll start by learning about how to create a potentially impactful idea, through virtual workshops and resources, on the first day. Then, on the second day, you'll get to bring your idea, which could be an app, game or something else entirely, to life with code. You’ll create something awesome, and the best entries will win prizes!
Get started
To get started, join the Discord server. If you want to prepare, the best thing to do is practise using your favorite development framework, or start learning a new platform or tool.
Requirements
What to Build
Build a project that aims to do good, and have a positive impact on an area that matters to you. You can read more about this in the hackathon guide, but to summarise, you should aim to help as many people as possible, and detail how your project will actually do to help.
What to Submit
You can submit any programming project, like an app, game, custom website, data analysis project, ML/AI model or something else entirely. You should also submit a short document or video with screenshots, explaining what your project is, and how it will make a difference, to help our judges. If your project is not 'experiencable', meaning the judges cannot run it and easily figure out what it does, you are recommended to include a document or video explaining this. The project must be open-sourced and hosted publicly in a Github Repository.
Prizes
4 $25 Art of Problem Solving Gift Cards
Get a $25 gift card to spend on the Art of Problem Solving online store. Art of Problem Solving develops educational resources for eager math students in grades 2-12, including textbooks, an online school, in-person learning centers, and a variety of online applications. We build the tools we wish we had when we were students.
.XYZ domain
A .xyz domain name, for 1 year.
Axure RP
1-year subscription to Axure RP Team, a revolutionary prototyping tool!
Wolfram One (6 months)
Wolfram|One includes both Desktop and Cloud access, full access to the Wolfram Language and Knowledgebase, FreeCDF Deployment, 5000 Wolfram|Alpha API calls, 5000 Cloud Credits, 2 installations per user and 2 GB of Cloud Storage.
Wolfram Award
Build a project using the Wolfram Language to win a 12-month subscription to Wolfram One, as well as a $500 scholarship to one of Wolfram's summer programs!
Best Entry!
Second Place
Third Place
Devpost Achievements
Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:
Judges
Felix Myrie
Hackathon Organiser
Priyanka Thakur
Python Expert
Siri Varma
Tech Lead, Microsoft
Kaushik Sathupadi
TLM & Staff engineer at Google
Chirag Pethad
Platform Architect - PetSmart
Varin Satish Nair
Engineering @ Applied Intuition
Tejas Tumakuru Ashok
Data Scientist - Wyndham Destinations
Stepan Mikhailiuk
Principal Software Engineer - Lumen5
Judging Criteria
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Potential to have a positive impact
Have the participants considered how their project can have a positive impact? Is this working towards solving an important issue, and does it have potential to make a difference on that issue? -
Implementation quality
How well-made is the project? Is it useful to achieving the goals that they have set out, or is something limiting this?
Questions? Email the hackathon manager
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