Name: Catalyst 2025
Start: 2025-09-05T23:30:00.000-04:00
End: 2025-09-07T05:00:00.000-04:00
Location: Catalyst 2025

Catalyst 2025

CATALYST IS CISSA’S SECOND ANNUAL FLAGSHIP HACKATHON FOR STUDENTS.

Who can participate

Above legal age of majority in country of residence
College students only
Team required: 3 to 5 members
All countries/territories, excluding standard exceptions

View full rules

Ready to turn a wild idea into a real thing in just one weekend? 🚀

CISSA’s hackathon: CATALYST is happening! 🔥 This is our annual sem 2 hackathon where you team up and build a tech project from the ground up. Think code, creativity, and a whole lot of food and refreshments.

It doesn’t matter if you’re a coding wizard or have literally never written code before - Catalyst is a perfect beginner-friendly environment to improve your dev skills!

CATALYST IS CISSA’S SECOND ANNUAL FLAGSHIP HACKATHON FOR STUDENTS.

Ticket Purchase: Catalyst 2025 Ticket on Humanitix

Team Registration: ONE person from each team to fill out this Google Form

Online venue/Discord (team-finding, announcements, socials): Catalyst Discord Server

Requirements

Submission Deadline: Sunday 6th September 5.00 PM

[ IMPORTANT: Devpost requires a ZIP file when making your submission, compress your pitch deck (presentation slides) and upload them ]

Catalyst 2025 will be using Devpost to showcase your projects and ensure smooth running of the judging process. All submissions should include the following:

An explanation of your project, background information, and the process of developing your idea.
URL link to a PUBLICLY VISIBLE Github page showing your project code.
URL link to a pitch video that showcases your project (5 minutes MAX). Any platform that allows the video to be publicly viewed is accepted, e.g. Youtube / Google Drive / Vimeo etc.
If you have deployed a website, please also provide the URL of your website.

Please ensure that your project submission contains a submission title (we recommend using your project name + a simple tagline for this), photos/videos for your project gallery, and the project description.