Description

Hack-Earth is a sustainability-driven innovation challenge where students, creators, and beginners come together to build real solutions for climate resilience, environmental protection, and sustainable technology. Whether you're a coder, designer, researcher, or completely new to hackathons, this event provides you with mentorship and resources to help you bring your ideas to life. Participants will compete for prizes by creating innovative projects that address environmental challenges through technology, creativity, and problem-solving.

Hack-Earth challenges participants to identify and solve a pressing environmental problem using technology of their choice—whether that's AI, data analytics, IoT, web/mobile apps, or any other innovative approach. You have complete freedom to choose the sustainability challenge you want to address and how you want to solve it.

Potential Environmental Challenges to Explore (or create your own!)

The world faces countless environmental challenges. Here are some areas you might consider, but feel free to think beyond this list:

• Air Quality & Pollution: Real-time monitoring systems, pollution prediction, urban air quality solutions

• Water Conservation & Quality: Contamination tracking, water usage optimization, clean water access

• Climate Action & Carbon Reduction: Carbon footprint calculators, emission tracking, climate education tools

• Wildlife & Biodiversity: Endangered species monitoring, habitat protection, ecosystem health tracking

• Renewable Energy: Solar/wind optimization, energy efficiency tools, grid management solutions

• Waste Management: Recycling innovation, circular economy platforms, waste reduction systems

• Sustainable Agriculture: Smart farming, crop monitoring, food security solutions

• Ocean & Marine Protection: Plastic pollution tracking, coral reef monitoring, sustainable fishing

• Climate Adaptation: Disaster prediction, resilient infrastructure, community preparedness

• Environmental Education: Awareness platforms, gamified learning, community engagement tools

Your Challenge. Your Solution. Your Impact.

We encourage you to think creatively about the environmental problems that matter most to you and your community. The best projects identify a clear problem, propose an innovative solution, and demonstrate real-world impact potential.

Judges will evaluate projects based on innovation, technical implementation, sustainability impact, and presentation—regardless of which environmental challenge you choose to tackle.

• Innovation & Creativity
  Originality of idea, unique approach, wow factor, thinking outside the box
• Technical Implementation
  Code quality, functionality, use of technologies, completeness
• Impact & Sustainability
  Real-world applicability, environmental/social impact, scalability potential
• Presentation & Demo
  Quality of pitch, clarity of explanation, demo effectiveness
• Effort & Learning
  Dedication, overcoming challenges, growth demonstrated (especially for beginners)