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About the Challenge

Hackonomics™ 2025 allows individuals passionate about finance, economics, and computer science in our community to fuse the aforementioned principles via projects with the potential to have a positive impact on our community.

Current Prize Pool Value: $8,740 USD

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Getting Started

Brainstorm project ideas, approaches to outreach, and potential impact. Additionally, join the discord server for more details on the event.

Requirements

What to Build

Create an innovative project, product, business, or idea that would help spread awareness about financial literacy and economics in the community.

This Hackathon is open-ended and beginner-friendly hackathon and allows submissions covering the wide range of economic or financial topics. We also allow submissions in all mediums and different stages of development.

What to Submit

A YouTube video or Google Drive video describing your project (1-2 Minutes Recommended, 5 Minutes Maximum) and a document of the source program (any medium). Designs, prototypes, and submissions from Hackonomics 2024 are permitted. See criteria for more information.

Hackathon Sponsors

Prizes

5 non-cash prizes

First Place

1 winner

Most effective in satisfying criteria of all submitted projects.

- (x2) 1 year long subscriptions of NordVPN, NordPass and Incogni
- (x2) 1GB of free eSIM data with Saily.
- Art of problem-solving $50 credit
- 1 year pro subscription to Momen.app

Second Place

1 winner

Second most effective in satisfying criteria of all submitted projects.

- (x2) 1 year long subscriptions of NordVPN, NordPass and Incogni
- (x2) 1GB of free eSIM data with Saily.
- Art of problem-solving $25 credit
- 1 year pro subscription to Momen.app

Third Place

1 winner

Third most effective in satisfying criteria of all submitted projects.

- (x2) 1 year long subscriptions of NordVPN, NordPass and Incogni
- (x2) 1GB of free eSIM data with Saily.
- Art of problem-solving $25 credit
- 1 year pro subscription to Momen.app

Design Award

2 winners

Incorporates a sleek, user-friendly, and polished design, maximizing accessibility of project content. (May be a Figma-based project or prototype.) Top two in presenation category.

- 1 year pro subscription to Momen.app

Technical Award

2 winners

Projects that demonstrate the best application by using data and integration to create a comprehensive app that covers all aspects of the project's task. Top two projects in the technical execution category.

- 1 year pro subscription to Momen.app

Judges

Atharv Patil
Hackathon operations & logistics manager

Eytan Grumberg
Hackathon outreach & membership manager

Deven Yadav
Senior SQL Server DBA

Kumar Koduvayur Krishnamurthy
Technology Strategist and Innovator

Bharath Kumar Varma Sagi
Senior Data Scientist at Starbucks

Satyanarayana Raju
Principal Cloud Vulnerability Specialist at Morgan Stanley

Avinash Bawane
Sr. Software Engineer at Apple Inc.

Siri Varma Vegiraju
Tech Lead at Microsoft Security

Bhanuprakash Madupati
Senior Software Engineer at Minnesota DOC

Koushik Balaji Venkatesan
Software Development Engineer at Amazon

Igor Piatkov
Software Engineer & Founder of 1Certify

Gogulakrishan Thiyagarajan
Software Engineering Technical Lead at Cisco

Rupesh Shirke
Critical Infrastructure Security/Cofounder of ICS2 chapter

Albert Lie
Co-founder of SF VC-backed AI startup/Founding Engineer and Tech Lead

Misba Khair
Oracle HCM Cloud Consultant

Pulkit Goel
Staff Software Engineer at Activision Blizzard(Microsoft)

Subhransu Mishra
Mobile Engineer at Adobe

Subhash Chandra Bose Naripeddy
Technical Lead, Engineer at Meta

Tony Chang
Software Engineer at Databricks

Peiyang Yu
Software Engineer at Meta

Archita Sajjan
Technical Product Manager at Visa

Rachit Jain
Software Engineer at Google

Dylan Lee
Software Engineer at Goldman Sachs

Bhoomi Patel
Software Engineer at Meta

Nimit Patel
Principle Data Scientist at McKinsey & Company

Nikita Baryshev
Senior Software Developer at Check Point Cyber Security

Wes Kim
Founding AI Engineer at Arrow

Rajesh Sura
Head of Engineering and Analytics at Amazon

Jagrati Bhardwaj
Software Engineer at Microsoft

Praneetha Kotla
Lead RPA Developer & Solution Architect at ERP Smartlabs

Gaurav Mittal
Software Developer Engineer at Nordstrom

Mukesh Khaniya
Senior Software Engineer at Apple

Santosh Srinivasan
Senior Enterprise Architect at Amazon Web Services

Prateek Batla
AI lead product manager at Meta

Disha Patel
VP of Product at Collective

Aashish Mishra
Senior Software Developer at First Republic Bank

Prashanthi Matam
Full Stack Engineer/Senior Software Engineer at Discover Financial Services

Rishab Bansal
Senior Software Developer at Tesla

Vishal Kirankumar Shah
Data Analytics Engineer & Visualization Expert at Virginia Department of Wildlife Resources

Shilpa Shastri
Principle Product Manager at Apptio

Ruoran Wang
Technical Program Manager at Plus

Raju Ansari
Senior Software Engineer at AWS Amazon

Nithin Prasad
Associate Director/Senior Engineering Major at GEP Worldwide

Karthik Yedavilli
Senior Manager Software Development Engineer at Fintech

Pankaj Verma
Senior Data Scientist at Shell

Saurabh Aggarwal
Principal Data Scientist at Autodesk

Shreyas Sharma
Senior Software Developer at American Crystal Sugar Company

Deepak Giri
Executive Director at Wells Fargo

Pearl Li
Founder of Read Bean

Sreeja Apparaju
Machine Engineer at Snapchat

Judging Criteria

Relevancy
How well does the project address the theme of economics and financial literacy while combining code? Does it also include an element of educating others on the topic?
Technical Execution
How well is the project built? Does it demonstrate a high level of technical proficiency, scalability, and efficiency? Is the implementation technically sound?
Presentation
How visually appealing and user-friendly is the project? Is the design intuitive, with a clear and attractive user interface, thoughtful color schemes, and a seamless user experience?
Impact
What is the potential impact of the project? Could it have meaningful applications or scale beyond Hackonomics? Does it offer long-term value in terms of user benefit, business, or societal impact?
Innovation
How unique or creative is the approach to solving the problem? Does the project push boundaries or introduce novel ideas or technologies?