Prize: Rocketbook Reusable Notebook

Our hackers love to learn! From attending workshops about a range of topics to traveling to Technica with their classmates, Technica weekend provides a wealth of opportunities to learn. We want to see your hack focused on education! From financial literacy to learning new recipes, we'd love to see what you've created. Submit a project related to education, educating others, or improving education!

Prize: Lego set

This prize is for the hack that incorporates the best UI/UX design. Factors considered will be innovation, aesthetics, service to the project/challenge, and the process.

Prize: CAMKORY Digital Camera

Submit any and all hacks related to sustainability, climate change, biodiversity, and more! We invite you to return to your roots and create the coolest hack related to sustainability!

Prize: Logitech Gaming Headset

Technica welcomes you to explore the wonder that awaits this weekend! Whether it's by gamifying an everyday task or embarking on a new adventure through a video game hack, we hope your imagination runs wild!

Prize: Anker Bluetooth Speaker

Technica embraces its mission to promote diversity and inclusion! We want to see your hacks that utilize technology to provide more inclusive, accessible, and empowering solutions.

Prize: TEANAGOO Matcha Kit

The Techni-fam loves being active and focusing on their personal growth, whether it means dedicating more time to self-care, attending gym classes, or spending time with friends! We'd like to see your best hack related to active wellness and health.

Prize: CiBest Mini Projector

The Techni-fam loves innovation! Whether it's a disruptive tech solution, a creative app, or a groundbreaking product, we're looking for hacks that have the potential to revolutionize the startup world. Show us your entrepreneurial spirit and take your project to the next level.

Prize: Uniqlo Shoulder Bag

Is this your first time attending a hackathon or creating a hack? We want to encourage all first-time hackers to submit their creations! This should be the first hackathon for at least one member of the team. Ideally, this must be the first hackathon for all or almost all team members. All team members should be at least 18 years old, and participants are expected to have limited to no prior coding knowledge. We're excited to hear about what you've learned and what you've come up with for your first hack!

Prize: Weighted Cat Plush

Is this your first time attending a hackathon or creating a hack? We want to encourage all first-time hackers to submit their creations! At least one member of the team has to be a first-time hacker. Team members submitting for this category must be in middle or high school. We're excited to hear about what you learned and what you came up with for your first hack!

Prize: Digital Gift Card

GoDaddy Registry is giving you everything you need to be the best hacker no matter where you are. Register your domain name with GoDaddy Registry for a chance to win some amazing prizes!

Prize: 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?

Prize: 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!

Prize: ElevenLabs 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 exclusive ElevenLabs branded airpods!

Prize: Portable Screens

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: 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!

Prize: 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!

Build your next hack with Presage and show us the future of human-computer interaction!

Best Use of Presage winners will receive SenseCAP Watchers for each team member, along with the following perks from the Presage team:
- A Free design consultation with a Presage application deployment expert
- Free refills for Presage Development credits to accelerate you through your next three months of building
- 30% off all Presage usage charges for your first year after going live

Prize: 4 headphones for winners

A submission that uses Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, or Generative AI to solve a complex problem by providing intelligent guidance, automating a tedious workflow, or dramatically increasing efficiency and speed for the user. The best hacks will demonstrate clear, measurable impact.

Prize: $300 Giftogram Gift Card

At Capital One, we are building the bank of the future. We recognized early on that winners in banking will be great tech companies with the risk management skills of a leading bank. Along the journey of our tech transformation, we went all-in on the public cloud, invested in modern architecture standards (microservices, rest APIs, open source) and created a real-time streaming ecosystem for big data. Our track is The Best Financial Hack! This is your chance to change the game in fintech. Whether it's an innovative payment solution, helping consumers shop smarter, making financing more accessible, or a creative way to improve financial literacy, we want to see your boldest ideas in action. Judging will be based on the project's creativity, complexity, and completeness. Take advantage of Capital One Hackathon API, Nessie, for real public-facing data to help spearhead your innovative idea.

Prize: Portable Monitor

Challenge Overview
In an increasingly complex financial world, many individuals lack the foundational knowledge needed to make informed investment decisions. This challenge invites participants to reimagine how we teach investing concepts, market behavior, and portfolio management with a focus on accessibility, engagement, and measurable impact. Remember, we want them to actually understand the concepts and not only create a tool. “Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime”

Why It Matters
- According to the FINRA Foundation’s 2025 National Financial Capability Study, only 36% of U.S. adults could correctly answer basic financial literacy questions, with significant gaps across age, gender, and income levels
- The World Economic Forum reports that financial literacy in the U.S. has hovered around 50% for eight consecutive years, with younger adults and women scoring significantly lower
- The OECD’s 2023 International Survey found that globally, only 27% of adults demonstrate high levels of financial literacy, with disparities most pronounced among youth and low-income populations

Your Mission
Design a solution that educates and empowers users to understand and apply key investing principles. Your project should focus on at least one of the following areas:
- Investing Fundamentals: Risk vs. return, diversification, compounding, asset classes.
- Market Behavior: Volatility, economic cycles, behavioral finance.
- Portfolio Management: Goal setting, rebalancing, risk tolerance, long-term planning.

Project Ideas
- A gamified app that teaches investing through real-world simulations.
- A visual tool that helps users build and adjust portfolios based on life goals.
- A platform that distills concepts in ways that resonate with different audiences.