Name: HackPrinceton Fall 2025
Start: 2025-11-07T20:00:00.000-05:00
End: 2025-11-09T08:15:00.000-05:00
Location: HackPrinceton Fall 2025

WELCOME TO HACKPRINCETON FALL 2025

At HackPrinceton, you'll meet fellow hackers from around the world, learn new skills, and work alongside seasoned mentors. We'll have free workshops, lecture series, mentorship, prizes, games, and more. Don't have a team or even an idea? Don't worry! We'll give you the tools to build something incredible.

For 36 hours from November 7th to November 9th in-person on Princeton University's campus, you'll have the opportunity to collaborate and build out brilliant, innovative, and impactful ideas.

Our tracks for this semester's Hackathon:

HEALTHCARE

Projects that improve healthcare delivery, promote wellness, or tackle public health challenges. Examples include telehealth solutions, AI-driven diagnostics, mental health tools, and fitness tracking apps.

SUSTAINABILITY

Projects that use technology to address environmental challenges or promote eco-friendly habits. Examples include carbon tracking apps, smart waste management, and renewable energy tools.

BUSINESS & ENTERPRISE

Projects that improve the efficiency of financial tools and streamline business management. Examples include financial tools for startups, B2B billing, dashboards, analytics, cybersecurity, and privacy, among others.

ENTERTAINMENT & EDUCATION

Projects that make learning and entertainment more interactive, accessible, or personalized. This includes e-learning platforms, AI content creators, games, and tools for virtual experiences.

Requirements

1. You must submit a link to your project's public GitHub repository created between November 7, 2025 - November 9, 2025

2. You MAY submit an OPTIONAL video demo that does not exceed 2 minutes in length. Remember to leave time to upload your video to YouTube/any other platform and add the link to your video to your Devpost submission. Note: In-person demos will be required on Sunday, see below!

3. Judging will be from 9:30 AM - 2 PM on Sunday, November 9. Hackers will be expected to present their finished work in front of the judges during this time period. You must prepare for a presentation explaining/demoing your project to the judges that does not exceed 2 minutes in length, even if you attached a video to your project. Your presentation should clearly indicate the problem your hack attempts to solve and a walkthrough of your hack’s functionality.

Please add your Discord usernames to your submission so we can contact you if you win a prize!

Hackathon Sponsors

Prizes

$17,000+ in prizes

+ other prizes

Best Overall Hack [Courtesy of Amplitude, Anthropic, OpenAI]

$100 in cash

3 winners

Nintendo Switch 2 + Mario Kart World Bundle per member

$100 Visa Gift Card and opportunity to intern at Amplitude, no interview required!

1k Claude credits

Top three winners receive $10K, $5K, and $1K in OpenAI credits respectively

Best Healthcare Hack [Courtesy of Daylight Health]

1 winner

3D Printer

Internship at Daylight

Best Business + Enterprise Hack [Courtesy of Orcava AI, Eragon AI]

Third Place: $500 API Credits + $100 cash

Best Use of Vibe Kanban by Vibe Kanban

5 winners

Teenage Engineering EP-1320 medieval

Best Predictive Intelligence by Chestnut Forty

$700 in cash

Pathik Sharma

Pooja Vazirani

Andrew Gordon

Mounish Sunkara

Vishal Thukral

Meiqi Sun

Cathy

Aryan

Saurish Srivastava

Santiago Medina

Tiffany Tan

Sam Bai

Oleksandr Sosnytskyi

Kieran O'Reilly

Daniel Tian

Juston Forte

Jose Escamilla

Harshita Arora

Benedikt

Veniamin Veselovsky

Senhao Cao

Shira Feinberg

Sheshananda Reddy Kandula

Venu Sannamuri

Karan Goel

Anusha Sheelavant

Sagar Bharat Shah

Akanksha Anand

Reshu Bisht

Pramod Begur Nagaraj

Kartik Pandey

Balaji Sundareshan

Surabhi Boob

Anoop Gopi

Deepa lakshmi Duraisamy

Janaki Vivrekar

Omkaar Shenoy

Adam Selim

Manav Kapoor

Judging Criteria

Creativity
How unique is the concept behind the hack? Does it address a problem you didn’t even know existed? Does it address a common problem in a creative way or with an intuitive algorithm? What is this hack’s “ah-ha” moment?
Utility
Does this hack function? If so, how in-depth is its functionality? How likely would you be to frequently use this hack in its current state in your own life?
Charity
Does this hack address a specific societal need? If so, how well does it address it? What contributions does this hack make in the nation’s service and the service of humanity?
Avidity
How excited do the team members seem about the final state of their project? Passion can be demonstrated through their presentation, the project’s description on Devpost, the future plans they have for their hack, or an overall polished program.