1st place: Kindle
2nd place: JBL Headphones
3rd place: $45 Gift Card

The Education Track empowers innovators to reshape how we learn and share knowledge. In a world where education is becoming more digital, adaptive, and global, this track challenges participants to create tools that make learning accessible, engaging, and personalized. Projects might focus on improving remote learning, bridging global education gaps, or reimagining classroom experiences through data and technology. It’s about building systems that not only teach, but inspire lifelong curiosity and opportunity.

1st place: 1 TB SSD
2nd place: $75 Gift Card
3rd place: Amazon Fire TV Stick 4K

The Fintech Track explores how technology can transform global finance to be more inclusive, transparent, and efficient. Participants will reimagine how people save, spend, invest, and manage money through secure, data-driven innovation. Projects might focus on empowering the unbanked, improving digital payments, promoting financial literacy, or bringing trust to global transactions with blockchain and AI. This track is about building tools that democratize access to financial opportunity and strengthen the connection between people and their money.

1st: Ergonomic Keyboard
2nd place: $75 Gift Card
3rd place: Amazon Echo Dot

The Healthcare Track challenges hackers to reimagine the future of medicine and wellness through innovation and technology. Participants will design solutions that improve patient care, streamline healthcare systems, and make medical services more accessible to all. Whether it’s AI-powered diagnostics, telehealth tools, wearable data platforms, or systems that enhance mental health support, this track is your chance to revolutionize how we deliver and experience healthcare.

Prizes:
1st place: Digital Camera
2nd place: Jellycat Bunny Stuffed Animal
3rd place: Anker Power Bank

The Interactive Media & Entertainment Track invites creators to push the boundaries of storytelling, design, and human experience. This track explores how technology can enhance creativity, emotion, and connection: from immersive virtual worlds and generative art to social platforms and digital performances. Participants will experiment with tools like AR/VR, AI, and interactive design to build projects that engage, entertain, and inspire. Whether it’s transforming how people experience games, music, or visual media, this track is where creativity meets code.

1st place: LEGO Botanicals Flower Arrangement
2nd place: $75 Gift Card
3rd place: Stanley Tumbler

The Sustainability Track challenges participants to design solutions that drive environmental responsibility and sustainable living. From renewable energy and waste management to climate data and community action, this track is about creating technologies that safeguard our planet for future generations. Teams will focus on innovation that enables smarter resource use, greener cities, and more conscious choices at every level. Here, tech becomes a force for a cleaner, more resilient world.

$200 to each member of the winning team
Create a simulated marketplace where an autonomous Buyer Agent negotiates with multiple Seller Agents to complete a purchase. Moving beyond basic comparisons, your agents should reason, strategize, and negotiate. Push the boundaries of agentic decision-making in complex economic interactions.

Solana is a high performance L1 Blockchain platform designed for fast, low-cost and highly scalable decentralized applications and digital transactions. Build on Solana, with either your own smart contract or utilizing existing contracts, libraries or APIs to leverage payments and assets at the speed of the internet.

$375 Amazon Gift Card / person

1st Place: $1000 cash prize; final round interview with the full Aristotle founding team for an intern or full-time role (for each winning team member); alpha access to Aristotle platform.
2nd Place: $500 cash prize; interview with an Aristotle founding team member for an intern or full-time role (for each winning team member); alpha access to Aristotle platform.
3rd Place: $250 cash prize
Hacks pushing the boundaries of AI agent capabilities. Areas we are excited for teams to explore include memory, multimodality, proactivity, natural interactions, personality, and more.

1st place: $100 Cash + $100 Nodal CLI credits + Arduino MEGA for each member of the winning team

2nd place: 50$ cash + $100 Nodal CLI credits

Awarded to the team that makes the most impactful and technically impressive use of Nodal CLI to build a hardware + software project.

https://www.nodalcli.com

Blue Snowball Microphone + a Free .Tech Domain Name for up to 10 years

Make your team’s achievements timeless: win a .Tech domain name for up to 10 years to showcase and expand your project, plus Blue Snowball mics for effortless collaboration on Zoom—empowering you to build even more cool things together!

Arduino Tiny Machine Learning Kit

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 the repository for an example of the Snowflake REST API in action.

Wireless Earbuds

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 empowers you to build rich, immersive experiences without actors or complex audio production, using simply the power of AI. Integrate fully-autonomous audio experiences into your hack with ElevenLabs and give your team the chance to win wireless earbuds!

Handheld Game Console

Building with Arm allows you to create highly efficient, performant, and scalable applications & software! From IoT and smart devices to AI and machine learning, Arm’s high-performance computing and extreme energy efficiency will power whatever hackathon project you’re creating to the next level. With hundreds of sample projects and tutorials at Arm’s developer hub, you’ll find everything you need to get started (and then some). With Arm powering the vast majority of the world’s smartphones, tablets, laptops, servers and IoT devices, now is your chance to get hands-on with the most popular processor architecture around! Assemble your team and build your hack using one of Arm’s learning paths today for a chance to win some awesome prizes!

M5Stack Development Kit

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 idea into a real-world project. 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!

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 with your exclusive MLH promo code and claim your free cloud credits! Take your next hack to the cloud with Vultr for a chance to win some awesome prizes!

$50 for each member of the winning team.
Whole team has to be a first-time hacker

$50 for each member of the winning team.
Humor is a feature

$50 for each member of the winning team.
For the project that made the wrapper cool, not just "a wrapper"

Arduino Uno Q