Participants will build AI-driven assistants, broadband apps, or autonomous workflows that integrate with or enhance the T-Mobile's 5G Home Internet product. Each team will be given a Raspberry Pi which simulates T-Mobiles Linux-based gateway device. Using LLMs/SLMs and agentic AI principles, teams should explore how HINT can:

- Simplify and personalize customer experiences
- Automate network insights, device management, or service upgrades
- Create AI-native apps that leverage always-on, high-speed, low-latency 5G connectivity
- Deliver value through AI copilots for households, small businesses, or communities

Top 2 Teams: $2,000 cash or equivalent gift card to each team ($500 per team member, max 4 members).

With AWS providing Cloud Credits to all participants, you can dream bigger and explore beyond free-tier services. Remember the excitement of getting a new toy as a kid? Channel that same curiosity as you play with powerful AWS services like SageMaker AI and Bedrock to create distributed applications solving real student challenges.

Unleash your creativity with SageMaker AI and Bedrock to craft AI-powered applications - from intelligent tutoring systems to personalized learning assistants using foundation models. Don't be afraid to experiment – try that shiny new AWS service you've been eyeing! Whether you're building a real-time study group finder, a streamlined course registration system, or a scalable mental health resource hub, the possibilities are endless. New to microservices or an experienced dev?

This 36-hour challenge is your technical playground to make a difference. Break down monolithic problems into elegant, maintainable solutions while transforming student life. The best projects will showcase creative use of AWS services while delivering meaningful impact.

First Prize: HP Elitebook 14'' Laptop

Second Prize: Fire HD10 10'' Tablet

Third Prize: $50 Amazon Gift Card

Unleash your creativity and supercharge teamwork by building innovative apps or automations using Atlassian’s Forge platform! Tackle real-world collaboration, productivity, or DevOps challenges by extending Atlassian tools like Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket, and Trello. Show us how you can make work smarter, faster, and more fun with Forge Agents!

First Prize: Sony Headphones

Second Prize: Bose Speaker

Third Prize: Beats Pill Speaker

Some problems need a bold idea, and a bolder build. This track is your playground for innovation! The most unconventional ideas are welcome, as long as they’re solving real problems.

Whether you're pushing the boundaries of AI or building something no one’s seen before, connect imagination with technical ingenuity. The Inventor champions projects that embrace experimentation, harness disruptive technologies, and challenge the norm.

Powerful solutions bring us closer and help us thrive. This track celebrates technology's role in strengthening our ties to each other, our communities, and the world around us, while also empowering ourselves.

It's human-centered and fosters belonging, bridge gaps, and unlock personal and collective growth. The Advocate build tools that unite, uplift, and drive positive, lasting change.

The idea is to combine childhood nostalgia (games, toys, allowance systems) with innovative payment solutions (Visa APIs, tokenization, security, digital wallets).

Challenge Question
“How can you reimagine childhood experiences—like allowance, trading cards, or arcade games—using Visa’s payment network to make them secure, fun, and future-ready?”

Requirements:
- Use any open-source or publicly available payment API (e.g., Stripe, PayPal
Sandbox, Square, Razorpay, or mock payment libraries).
- Incorporate gamification or nostalgic elements (e.g., sticker books, piggy banks, board
games).
- Ensure security and inclusivity (parental controls, fraud prevention).
- Deliver a working prototype with a clear demo.

First Prize: iPads for all team members

Many aspiring developers are starting their college journeys as well as their coding journeys, brimming with creative ideas, but are still working towards bring their projects to life. The Best Freshman Beginner’s Project awarded by DubHacks is designed to recognize and celebrate exceptional projects created by newcomers to the field. This prize honors a standout project that exemplifies creativity and innovation showcasing the impressive potential of those who are just starting their journey in development.

This track can be entered by teams that consist of Freshmen ONLY.

First Prize: Amazon Echo Pop

AI is powerful — but how do you know which model, prompt, or feature actually works best? That’s where Statsig comes in.

Your challenge: Build an AI-powered product that uses Statsig to experiment, personalize, or optimize the experience.

Examples include:

- An AI tutor that experiments with different teaching styles
- A chatbot that adapts its personality using feature flags
- An image or audio AI app that tests multiple enhancement models
- A recommendation engine that personalizes content with dynamic configs

What we’re looking for
- Creativity
– Unique AI applications that stand out
- Effective Statsig Integration
– Use feature flags, experiments, or dynamic configs
- Impact Metrics
– Show us how your app improves with data (engagement, accuracy, conversions, etc.)
- Polish Presentation
– Functional demos that clearly explain results

Why this is exciting:
With Statsig, you don’t just build AI features — you measure what’s working in real time and deliver the best experience.

Prizes will go to the projects that best combine AI creativity with smart Statsig experimentation/feature flagging/product analytics

First Prize: Nintendo Switch 2

Get ready to hack the apple genome and help create the farm of the future. Today’s food system faces unprecedented challenges, and the iconic Washington apple is no exception. Okanagan Specialty Fruits, the developer of the world’s first bioengineered apple, has outlined our vision for the farm of the future in a recent white paper (linked in track description in hacker guide).

In this vision, we must employ the tools of AI and bioinformatics, coupled with the genome hacking tools CRISPR to change the architecture and fruiting behavior of apple trees to be able to fully harness innovations in AI and robotics that will be essential to ensure a resilient food system.

Challenge:
Your challenge is to work as a team to hack into the apple genome using bioinformatics-based data mining and AI to develop a gene editing strategy that will result in the genetic changes needed to realize the apple farm of the future.

Requirements:
Read the Traits & Tech: Designing the Farm of the Future white paper linked in the hacker guide to get started.

Consider getting a head start on your apple hacking strategy by attending the Hack the Farm of the Future Bioinformatics Workshop (recommended but not required).

First Prize: $1500 Toward a Tree-Top Vacation at an AirBnB location of your choice (Ok, it’s $1500 in AirBnB gift cards, but we hope you’ll stay in a treehouse or
somewhere really cool!)

Second Prize: $200 Apple Gift Card(s)

Third Prize: A box of bioengineered apples for you and your friends sent to your US address on your birthday!

This track is designed to identify and reward the project with the highest potential to become a successful startup product. The project has to demonstrate an innovation that disrupts a market, displaying a clear path to commercial viability.

This is your opportunity to take your project to the next level, getting ahead of the hundreds of applicants to DubHacks Next every year!

First Prize: $200 and expedited interview for DubHacks Next

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 exclusive ElevenLabs branded airpods!

Build with ElevenLabs! (https://mlh.link/elevenlabs)

First Prize: ElevenLabs Airpods & MLH Winner Pins

GoDaddy Registry is giving you everything you need to be the best hacker no matter where you are. Register your domain name with GoDaddy Registry for a chance to win some amazing prizes!

Build with GoDaddy Registry! (https://mlh.link/GoDaddyRegistry)

First Prize: Digital Gift Card & MLH Winner Pins

Cloudflare is one of the world’s largest networks enabling hackers like you to build, deploy, and deliver trusted applications, no matter where you are! With Cloudflare, you’ll have all the building blocks to create a full-stack application; from C3 (create Cloudflare command line) instance deployment to object storage. You can even run GenAI (LLMs, text to image, Voice to text etc..) in the cloud and leverage your AI functionality via API requests using Cloudlfare’s Workers AI! Enjoy Cloudflare’s generous free tier to get started at no cost! This weekend, we want you to build an AI Application utilizing Cloudflare’s numerous services for a chance to win Arduino Kits for you and your team!
ou and your team!

Build with Cloudflare!(https://mlh.link/cloudflare)

First Prize: Arduino Kit & MLH Winner Pins

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?

Build with Gemini!(https://mlh.link/gemini-quickstart)

First Prize: Mechanical Keyboards & MLH Winner Pins

AI has upended what we can accomplish with technology. Reach Capital (https://mlh.link/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(https://mlh.link/reach-talent).

Build with Reach Capital!(https://airtable.com/appaKmxO6vAsUaEWk/pagUoOCii6OPMWPZd/form)

First Prize: Logitech Webcam and Meeting with the Reach Capital Investors & MLH Winner Pins

See individual prize descriptions for deliverables and sponsor details.