Prize: Each member will receive
- Mini projector
- USAII Student Ambassador digital badge
- Complimentary entry and recognition at the USAII National Hackathon
- MLH Winner Pins

Prize: Each member will receive
- Wireless Mechanical Keyboard
- USAII Student Ambassador digital badge
- Complimentary entry and recognition at the USAII National Hackathon
- MLH Winner Pins

Prize: Each member will receive
- Drawing Tablet
- USAII Student Ambassador digital badge
- Complimentary entry and recognition at the USAII National Hackathon
- MLH Winner Pins

Single-use plastics have significant negative impacts on environmental and human health. According to the UNEP, "Combating plastic pollution including in the marine environment is imperative to safeguard ecosystems from irreversible damage and to preserve biodiversity". Significantly reducing the impacts of single-use plastics can have significant benefits for Georgetown's campus community. Please help us to design a solution that will incentivize Georgetown Community Members (students, faculty, and staff) to reduce their use/purchase of single-use plastics campus-wide.

Prize: Each member will receive
- Raycon Headphones

Digital forensics topics include but are not limited to:
Data carving\reconstruction\recovery tools, finding specific objects (other than faces) in a large collection of digital images, steganography detection or exploitation, registry or memory artifact analysis, encryption detection, or anything else that could aid investigators who are looking at computers recovered from crime scenes.

Prizes:
Cipher Tech is giving away $100 in Amazon egift cards plus special Cipher Tech Swag bags (to include a Yeti tumbler!) to each member of the team of up to 5, who design the best application that pertains in some way to digital forensics.

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: Google Swag Kits

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!

Prize: Ledger Nano S Plus

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: Portable Screens

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!

Prize: Wireless Earbuds

Play with industry-leading LLMs on a single account using the Snowflake APIs. Adding AI capabilities into your application can be as simple as a single CURL command to Snowflake’s REST API.

Build customized applications, RAG powered chat bots, or embed AI-powered features into your app in half the time with half the hassle. Get started for free with a special, student 120-day Snowflake trial and check out this repository (mlh.link/snowflake-tutorial) for an example of the Snowflake REST API in action.

Prize: Arduino Tiny ML Kit

MongoDB Atlas takes the leading modern database and makes it accessible in the cloud! Get started with a $50 credit for students or sign up for the Atlas free forever tier (no credit card required). Along with a suite of services and functionalities, you'll have everything you need to manage all of your data, and you can get a headstart with free resources from MongoDB University! Build a hack using MongoDB Atlas for a chance to win a M5GO IoT Starter Kit for you and each member of your team.

Prize: M5GO IoT Starter Kit

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

Prize: Desktop Microphone & a Free .Tech Domain Name for up to 10 years!