MEGA Hackathon 2025
MEGA is a dynamic and diverse coalition of high school and college students from around the world, attending institutions such as the University of Pennsylvania, UC Berkeley, University of Chicago, Duke University, Georgia Institute of Technology, The University of Glasgow, Rutgers Preparatory School, Milton Academy, The Hun School of Princeton, The Lawrenceville School, and many more. With a shared commitment to fostering sustainable development and promoting global welfare, MEGA is proud to announce its upcoming hackathon, MEGA Hackathon 2025, which is slated to take place online on Saturday, March 15, 2025, and Sunday, March 16, 2025.
The hackathons within the past four years have been significantly successful, with participants submitting innovative projects that tackled some of the world's most pressing issues, including education, climate change, poverty, and inequality. You can check out the projects from all of our hackathons at https://devpost.com/hackathons?organization=MegaHackathonLeague and our website at https://site.megahack.org/.
Objective
The objective of this hackathon will be to apply computer science or artificial intelligence to improve infrastructure and/or propel economic growth. This can be completed in the form of a business plan, game, application, or website.
Purpose
The MEGA Hackathon is a unique opportunity for computer science students to showcase their skills and creativity, while also contributing to the United Nations' seventeen sustainable development goals. By infusing computer science competitions with these goals, MEGA aims to raise awareness about pressing global issues and instill passion in the next generation of computer scientists.
MEGA's annual hackathon is an event that allows participants to collaborate and compete. This year, MEGA's hackathon will cater to a diverse range of interests and skill sets, with a variety of categories that include web development, data science, machine learning, and more.
The hackathon is open to students from all backgrounds, and there are no prerequisites for participation other than an interest in computer science and a desire to make a positive impact on the world. Participants will have the opportunity to work with mentors and industry professionals, as well as to network with other like-minded individuals from around the world.
Holistically, MEGA's annual hackathon is an exciting and impactful event that showcases the power of computer science to drive positive change in the world. We encourage all computer science students to join us for this year's event and help us make a difference!
Requirements
Before submitting your project, please fill out this registration form: Registration Form
The objective of this hackathon will be to apply STEM in projects that have the potential to increase global economic growth and/or infrastructure, in alignment with the United Nations' 17 Sustainable Development Goals (https://sdgs.un.org/goals).
This can be completed in the form of a business plan, game, application, or website. Regardless of which form of submission you choose, please submit a presentation or video describing your final product. If you wrote any code, please submit that too (preferably through a GitHub link).
There are also other awards that have secondary requirements such as the Wolfram Award and Business Innovator Award. To qualify for these awards, read the description of the prize to learn more about the requirements for these awards.
Note: When you register, you will recieve an access code for a 6 month subscription that would allow you to access the Wolfram Language. This would allow you to create projects that meets the requirement of the Wolfram Award.
The prize values listed within every prize are the total cash values of the prizes listed. We are not offering actual cash prizes in this hackathon.
Prizes
Gold Medal
This prize is for the most impressive, innovative, and impactful project.
-$45 Desmos Swag Pack
-$25 Art of Problem Solving Coupon (2x)
-$50 Interview Cake 7-Day Coding Interview Prep Course (1 per team member)
-Vaunt GitHub Badge
Silver Medal
This prize is for the second most impressive, innovative, and impactful project.
-$25 Art of Problem Solving Coupon
-$50 Interview Cake 7-Day Coding Interview Prep Course (1 per team member)
-Vaunt GitHub Badge
Bronze Medal
This prize is for the third most impressive, innovative, and impactful project.
-$25 Art of Problem Solving Coupon
-$50 Interview Cake 7-Day Coding Interview Prep Course (1 per team member)
-Vaunt GitHub Badge
Website Award
This prize is for the project with the best and most visually appealing website.
- $60 1 Password Family (1 year subscription) (1 per team member)
- $50 Interview Cake 7-Day Coding Interview Prep Course (1 per team member)
- Vaunt GitHub Badge
Business Innovator Award
This award is for the project with the best business plan.
- $60 1 Password Family (1 year subscription) (1 per team member)
- $50 Interview Cake 7-Day Coding Interview Prep Course (1 per team member)
- Vaunt GitHub Badge
Artificial Intelligence (AI) Award
This award is for the project that best utilizes artificial intelligence to impact economics and infrastructure positively.
- $60 1 Password Family (1 year subscription) (1 per team member)
- $50 Interview Cake 7-Day Coding Interview Prep Course (1 per team member)
- Vaunt GitHub Badge
Gaming Award
This award is for the project that consists of the best game.
- $60 1 Password Family (1 year subscription) (1 per team member)
- $50 Interview Cake 7-Day Coding Interview Prep Course (1 per team member)
- Vaunt GitHub Badge
Sustainability Award
This award is for the project that best aligns with the United Nations' 17 Sustainable Development Goals.
- $60 1 Password Family (1 year subscription) (1 per team member)
- $50 Interview Cake 7-Day Coding Interview Prep Course (1 per team member)
- Vaunt GitHub Badge
Wolfram Award
This award is given to the projects that feature the Wolfram Language and are award-winning projects.
$1660 1-year subscription of Wolfram|One
Participation Prize
- $10 .xyz domain (1 year subscription)
Participation Prize 2
- $830 6-month Wolfram|One subscription
Participation Prize 3
- $10 1 Month ACCESS to refact.ai PRO subscription
Devpost Achievements
Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:
Judges
Swetha Sridharan
System Design Analyst at AbbVie
Arvind Toorpu
Cloud Operations Manager at Allspring Global Investments
Swaroopa Shigli
Autonomous Systems Engineer and Program Manager at Code19 Racing
Mourya Chigurupati
SRE & Cloud Solutions Tech Lead at GM Financial
Nilesh Jain
Engineering Lead at Oracle America, Inc.
Ashutosh Ahuja
Enterprise Architect Lead at Starbucks
Supriya Lal
Group Tech Lead at Yelp Inc.
Prakash Reddy Putta
Staff Software Engineer at Instacart
Shalmali Patil
Business Intelligence Engineer at Amazon Web Services
Sireesha Pulipati
Staff Data Engineer at Attain
Sudeep Mungara
Data Scientist at Data-Core Systems Inc.
Siri Varma Vegiraju
Software Engineer at Microsoft
Hrishekesssa Raghu Eeti
Software Engineer at Cisco
Ranita Ganguly
Quality Consultant at 3D Technologies LLC
Ravi Laudya
Development Expert at SAP Concur
Samhitha Rama Prasad
Software Engineer II at BlackRock
Siddharth Nandagopal
Senior Software Engineer
Akshay Phadke
Senior Software Engineer at Webflow
Gaurav Mital
Manager of DataScience at ThermoFisher Scientific
Aayush Bhutani
Staff Software Engineer at Meta
Vibhas Mohan Zanpure
Software Development Manager at Amazon
Artem Holinka
Senior Frontend Engineer at Jiji
Milavkumar Shah
Engineering Manager at Amazon
Nikhil Kassetty
Software Engineer at Intuit Inc.
Monika Rathor
Lead Application Engineer, LevelHome Co.
Bharath Chandra Mummadisetty
Senior Data Engineer at Netflix
Avinash Bawane
Senior Software Engineer at Apple Inc.
Rajeev Kumar
Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Netflix
Manav Mittal
Senior Project Manager at ACM
Palash Bansal
Software Engineer at Meta
Vijay Pahuja
Senior Lead Software Engineer at Cox Automotive Inc.
Oleksandr Khrustalov
Principal Software Engineer at proSapient
Shailesh Kumar Agrahari
Founder of HelpyFinder, Inc.
Rupesh Dabbir
Engineering Manager at Google
Chingun Khasar
Co-Founder and CEO at Antispace
Ashwin Kumar Gopi Valliammal
Senior Software Engineer at Netflix
Gregory Makodzeba
Head of Developer Relations at Runtime Verification
Aldo Augustine
Senior Cloud Development Engineer at Pegasystems
Justin Hoang
Head of Core Product at Nextdoor
Aayush Dubey
Former Backend Software Engineer at VMware, Inc.
Aditya Kartikeya Mallajosyula
Member of Technical Staff at Oracle
Bidisha Goswami
Sr. Business Systems Analyst at The Pokemon Company International
Jatin Gupta
Product designer at T-Mobile
Nitish Mhalgi
Engineering Manager (Software) at Amazon
Nikhil Pareek
Founder & CEO at Future AGI India Private Limited
Jigar Bhati
Member of Technical Staff at OpenAI
Aditya Mehra
CTO at Infinict
Chandresh Kapadia
Tech Lead at Coinbase Global Inc
Harikrishnan K Chandrikakutty
Senior Design Verification Engineer at Microsoft
Lakshman Kumar Jamili
Lead Gen AI Architect at McKesson
Sandeep Keshetti
Software Engineer at Amazon
Venkata Vijay Krishna Paruchuru
Senior Software Engineer at Walmart Stores Inc
Pratik Karki
Founder, CTO at Anthromind
Xianghan Wang
XR/Motion Designer at Apple
Abhishek Aryaman
Product Manager at Lyft
Karan Alang
Software Engineer at Versa Networks Inc.
Richard Li
Software Engineer at Meta
Jiazhao Shi
Software Engineer at Amazon
Hyacinthe Hamon
CEO at HAMON FZCO
Zeqiu Xu
Software Engineer at Yahoo
Peiyang Yu
Production Engineer at Meta
Anastasiia Prydius
Head of Product Development at AccelIQ.digital
Yanina Shynhelska
Salesforce QA Engineer at Customertimes
Wajid Abdul
Senior Integration Engineer at Crowdstrike
Judging Criteria
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Innovation
Max Score 5 - Is this idea new? - Will this project contribute to economic growth or improved infrastructure? -
Technicality
Max Score 5 - Use of APIs, programs, and code in the project (if code was used) - How well was the idea implemented? (if code was used) - Is this concept possible to implement in the real world? -
Presentation
Max Score 5 - Is the information organized? - Is the concept understandable?
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