Train your digital apprentice. As part of this prize track, develop, train, or fine-tune your own model and prove your mastery of machine learning. Win a $400 prize!

Build for better health! Create tech that addresses critical public health challenges, improves patient outcomes, and/or enhances community well-being. The winners of this track will take home this $400 prize.

Greener horizons ahead. Create a project that addresses environmental concerns and brings us closer to a self-sustaining, eco-friendly future. Win a $400 prize!

Give your project an AI edge! Whether it’s your own model or you are utilizing API calls, use AI creatively as an integral part of your project. Win an air fryer!

Turn data into discovery! Combine data analysis and data visualization to extract meaningful insights, simulate outcomes, or reveal hidden trends. Win an Echo Dot! Additionally, win a 1-year subscription for NordVPN, NordPass, NordProtect and Incogni; 1 GB of free data for Saily; and 3-month access with €200 credit for nexos.ai!

Your debut deserves the spotlight! If more than half your team is hacking for the first time, this track is for you. Win Lego Technic Sets!

Pocket-sized innovation with big impact. Build the best app experience for phones or emulators - simple, intuitive, and made to move. Win a portable charger!

Craft something tangible! Bring your ideas into the physical world with hardware components. Win an Amazon Fire TV Stick!

The winner of this category received high accolades from judges across many prize track categories and was an overall judge favorite! Win a JBL Speaker!

This prize will be awarded to the best project that makes use of Photon. Win $250 and API keys/tokens! More info here: https://somethingreat.notion.site/hackrpi

Logitech Webcam & Meeting with the Reach Capital Investors || AI has upended what we can accomplish with technology. Reach Capital invests in the next generation of founders and technical talent, and they want you to use AI to transform the future of learning, health, and work. Build a project that impacts one (or all!) of these areas for a chance to win a Logitech webcam for each member of your team and the exclusive opportunity to discuss your creation with Reach Capital’s team of expert investors. Interested in working at world-changing startups? Reach's 130+ portfolio companies — including Replit, Brilliant, ClassDojo, GPTZero, and Desmos — are always looking for the next wave of talent. Share what you’re studying, building, or exploring, and Reach will connect you to career-defining opportunities. Add your profile and join the hackers already in the Reach talent network.

Blue Snowball Microphone & a Free .Tech Domain Name for up to 10 years! || Make your Team's Achievements timeless: Win a .Tech Domain Name for up to 10 years to Showcase and Expand Your Project, Plus Blue Snowball Mics for Effortless Collaboration on Zoom, empowering you to build even more cool things together!

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? 1. Understand language like a human and build a chatbot that gives personalized advice, 2. Analyze info like a supercomputer and create an app that summarizes complex research papers, and 3. Generate creative content like code, scripts, music, and more. Think of the possibilities… what will you build with the Google Gemini API this weekend?

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!

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 teammates!

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!

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