Mini-PCs per person.
The team who scores the highest in the overall judging will receive the Grand Prize! This is the award for the hack that has truly defined the weekend. We are looking for the project that left the judges absolutely amazed and undeniably impressed, generating immediate buzz. This prize will be awarded to the single hack that best delivered the most powerful combination of creativity, technical execution, and thematic relevance.

£100 Amazon vouchers provided by TPP per person
The 2nd place prize recognizes a project of exceptional overall quality and outstanding execution. This award is reserved for a project that was a close contender and demonstrated remarkable mastery across the board, earning high marks for its strong balance of creative thinking, technical achievement, and thematic fit.

Portable Monitor per person
The 3rd place prize honors a team whose project shows tremendous potential and impressive performance in one or more key areas. This award highlights a hack that excelled and stood out for its notable creativity, technical challenge, or powerful thematic connection, marking it as one of the best projects built this weekend.

HackSheffield 10 Commemorative Compass for each team member. This award is for the project that adhered best to the event's theme of Odyssey.

1st place: Apple Airpods

2nd Place: Airtags

3rd Place – Reply Backpacks

Address the complexity of coordinating diverse participants in a dynamic group chat.
Your solution must tackle the inherent complexity of integrating a diverse team of participants—humans and multiple AI agents—into a dynamic group chat:

Targeted Intent Recognition
Context Management & Attribution
Asynchronous Interaction & Collaboration

This prize celebrates hackathon projects that best harness Grafana to bring data to life. Whether visualizing information from public APIs, custom-built endpoints, or the data stores powering your application, we’re looking for creative and insightful dashboards that turn raw data into meaningful stories. Extra credit goes to teams that integrate multiple data sources, combining diverse streams into a single, visualisation that highlights patterns, insights, or concepts in a way that’s both technically impressive and visually engaging.

£100 Sports Direct giftcard per person.

I'm looking for commits, issues, pull requests, codespaces, actions, projects... ✨ anything GitHub ✨

Whilst the criteria isn't strictly the number of things you use (having 150 pull requests won't make you win...), having lots of many things will definitely impress me!

The prize? A selection of GitHub goodies – and you each get to choose one!

R36s Retro Handheld Games Console
Comp Soc is awarding this prize to the teams who have just started their hackathon journey! If it is at least half of your team's first time at a hackathon, you will be eligible for this prize. We are looking for teams who have come to HackSheffield and gave it their all, pushing themselves at this event and embodying what hackathons are all about.

Laptop Battery Pack
This award is a chance for you, the hackers, to vote on which project you think should be recognised and awarded a prize. You can choose any metric you wish for this, funniest hack, most impressive hack, or that team made your experience better at the event.

Mystery Box
Comp Soc is looking for the funniest hack this weekend! During our normal judging we will be taking note of the comedy factor of your hacks, we want to see projects that make us laugh. We are open to anything but please refrain from making any content that may be considered offensive!

Wireless Mice
SWiCS is looking for the project that best promotes diversity, equality, and inclusion in its design or purpose. We are judging based on accessible design, real-world impact and overall creativity.

Develop an innovative AI agent running on Arm hardware—from mobile devices to cloud servers! This challenge encourages leveraging LLMs, either on-device or via API, to create practical solutions.

Show us the best use of AI agents on Arm and win a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W kit!

Learn more at https://hackuk.org/arm

Build something over-the-top over engineered and held together with string. Use your imagination. Our favourite project will win Shark Plushes for each team member.

Google Swag Kits

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?

Understand language like a human and build a chatbot that gives personalized advice

Analyze info like a supercomputer and create an app that summarizes complex research papers

Generate creative content like code, scripts, music, and more

Think of the possibilities… what will you build with the Google Gemini API this weekend?

https://mlh.link/gemini-quickstart

M5Stack Starter Kit

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.

Create a game, social app, or consumer product that relies on instant, high-frequency transactions.

Design a sophisticated trading, lending, or decentralized exchange (DEX).

Build a prototype for supply chain, identity, or payments that can handle massive, real-world volume.

Show us how you can innovate with Solana for a chance to win some cool prizes for you and each member of your team!

https://mlh.link/solana

Retro Wireless Mouse

DigitalOcean GradientTM AI is a unified AI cloud for building, training, and deploying machine learning models and AI agents. Get access to GPU infrastructure like DigitalOcean GPU Droplets and Bare Metal servers, along with serverless inference and 1-Click Models for instant deployment of your favorite LLMs!

Sign up for DigitalOcean today and get $200 worth of free credits that you can use towards building your next Gradient-powered hack. Enable your next project with DigitalOcean GradientTM AI for a chance to win some great prizes for you and each of your team mates!

http://mlh.link/digitalocean

SenseCAP Watcher & Presage Perks
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.

Wireless Earbuds

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.

Integrate fully autonomous audio experiences into your hack with ElevenLabs and give your project a voice, along with giving your team the chance to win some wireless earbuds!

https://mlh.link/elevenlabs

Handheld Game Console
Building with ARM allows you to create highly efficient, performant, and scalable applications & software! From IoT and Smart Devices, to AI and Machine Learning, ARM’s high performance computing and extreme energy efficiency will power whatever hackathon project you’re creating into the next level.

With hundreds of sample projects and tutorials, you’ll find everything you need to get started and then some, at ARM’s developer hub. With ARM powering the vast majority of the world’s smartphones, tablets, laptops, servers, and IoT devices, now is your chance to get hands on with the most popular processor architecture around!

Assemble your team and build your hack using one of Arm's learning paths today for a chance to win some awesome prizes!

Arduino Kit
Cloudflare is one of the world’s largest networks enabling hackers like you to build, deploy, and deliver trusted applications, no matter where you are! With Cloudflare, you’ll have all the building blocks to create a full-stack application, from C3 (create Cloudflare command line) instance deployment to object storage. You can even run GenAI (LLMs, text to image, Voice to text, etc.) in the cloud and leverage your AI functionality via API requests using Cloudlfare’s Workers AI. Enjoy Cloudflare’s generous free tier to get started at no cost. This weekend, we want you to build an AI Application utilizing Cloudflare’s numerous services for a chance to win Arduino Kits for you and your team!