Projects that showcase exceptional innovation and originality efficiently address problems or challenges and deliver a seamless and enjoyable user experience.

Prize: iPad + MLH Winner Pins

Designs that feature outstanding UI/UX, emphasizing aesthetics, usability, and innovation, while effectively supporting the project’s goals.

Prize: Monitor + MLH Winner Pins

Projects that think beyond the ordinary, offering entirely novel solutions or implementations that push the boundaries of creativity.

Prize: Sony WH-1000XM4 Headphones + MLH Winner Pins

Projects that demonstrate creativity and skill from first-time hackers or those with limited coding experience, showcasing a strong start in hacking.

Prize: Keyboard + mouse + MLH Winner Pins

Projects that fully embrace the theme of music and focus on the link between sound and technology

Prize: JBL Speaker + MLH Winner Pins

Projects that enhance communities of listeners, bringing people together through streaming and shared culture.

Prize: Spotify gift card + MLH Winner Pins

Prize: Google Swag Kits - 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:Beats Solo Buds - 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: Ledger Nano S Plus - 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: Portable Screens - 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: M5Stack Tab5

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 for an example of the Snowflake REST API in action.