This prize is awarded to the best project created at Hack the 6ix 2025.

Each member of the winning team will receive:

- Meta Quest 3S 128GB + 3-Month Trial of Meta Horizon+
- 1-Year Nord Subscription (NordVPN, NordPass, NordProtect, Incogni, Saily)
- MLH Winner Pin

Please refer to the judging criteria below.

This prize is awarded to the 2nd best project created at Hack the 6ix 2025.

Each member of the winning team will receive:

- 24-Inch Computer Monitor
- 1-Year Taskade Subscription
- MLH Winner Pin

Please refer to the judging criteria below.

This prize is awarded to the 3rd best project created at Hack the 6ix 2025.

Each member of the winning team will receive:

- FUJIFILM INSTAX Mini 12 Instant Camera Gift Set (Camera, Case, 10 Film, Frame)
- 1-Year Taskade Subscription
- MLH Winner Pin

Please refer to the judging criteria below.

This prize is awarded to the best Video Game project created at Hack the 6ix 2025.

Please note that a project can only submit to one of Best Game, Best Hardware, or Best Beginner prize tracks.

Each member of the winning team will receive:

- Gaming Mechanical Keyboard

This prize is awarded to the best hardware project created at Hack the 6ix 2025.

Please note that a project can only submit to one of Best Game, Best Hardware, or Best Beginner prize tracks.

Each member of the winning team will receive:

- A BLAHAJ

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Did you know that Hack the 6ix 2025 consists of 25.8302583% beginners? This prize is awarded to the best project created by a team of which beginners (1st time hackers) are the majority (>50%).

Please note that a project can only submit to one of Best Game, Best Hardware, or Best Beginner prize tracks.

Each member of a University level winning team will receive:

- $50 Uber Eats Gift Card
- TKS Swag Bundle

Each member of a High School level winning team will receive:

- $250 TKS Program Grant
- TKS Swag Bundle

Vellum provides best-in-class tools to build, test, and ship your product’s AI layer faster. With an innovative low code builder *and* SDK, engineers can write code in their IDE and push it to an interactive UI to debug agents visually, collaborate with teammates, and ship higher quality AI products faster. Hackers have built coding copilots, self-optimizing systems, and more by combining vellum’s features and APIs. These prizes will be awarded to the most innovative usage of Vellum!

**To qualify for this prize track, you must meet the following requirements:**

- Use the Vellum platform (UI or SDK)
- Include a public GitHub repository and/or a detailed written project description
- Submit a short demo video showcasing your project

This prize will have 2 winners (winner, runner-up).

Each member of the winning team will receive:

- $500 cash

Each member of the runner-up winning team will receive:

- $250 cash

QNX challenges teams to explore embedded systems and smart technologies by creating projects that use the QNX platform, whether software-only or integrated with some hardware components.

QNX will be providing Raspberry Pis and other hardware to help you with your project! You'll be able to keep the Pi if you submit your project to this track.

The winning team will receive:

- $500 Amazon Gift Card
- QNX Swag Box

Build something extraordinary using Ribbon’s AI voice interviewer API. Whether you’re
reinventing hiring, research, education, or inventing an entirely new category, show the world
what’s possible when conversations become data.

This prize will have 3 podium winners (1st, 2nd, 3rd).

Each member of the 1st place winning team will receive:

- $250 Visa Gift Card
- Ribbon Swag Pack

Each member of the 2nd place winning team will receive:

- $50 Visa Gift Card
- Ribbon Swag Pack

Each member of the 3rd place winning team will receive:

- Ribbon Swag Pack

Build something amazing with TwelveLabs’ powerful video understanding API! Analyze, search, and extract meaning from video content using multimodal AI—leverage text, audio, visual, and motion data to create smart video apps, search tools, or interactive experiences. The most creative and impactful use of the TwelveLabs API will take the podium!

This prize will have 3 podium winners (1st, 2nd, 3rd).

Each member of the 1st place winning team will receive:

- GoPro
- $50 TwelveLabs Credit
- TwelveLabs Custom Swag Bag

Each member of the 2nd place winning team will receive:

- $40 TwelveLabs Credit
- TwelveLabs Custom Swag Bag

Each member of the 3rd place winning team will receive:

- $30 TwelveLabs Credit
- TwelveLabs Swag Bag

Harness the power of artificial intelligence to drive sustainable solutions and tackle environmental challenges. This track invites teams to develop innovative AI-driven applications that promote eco-friendly practices, optimize resource use, reduce carbon footprints, or support biodiversity. Projects should demonstrate clear environmental impact, feasibility, and scalability, whether it’s smart energy management, intelligent waste reduction, or predictive analytics for climate resilience.

Each member of the winning team will receive:

- Deloitte Swag Bundle

About Linear

What is Linear? [Linear](https://linear.app/) offers a clean, intuitive platform that helps engineering, product, and design teams manage projects, track issues, and optimize their development process.

What is Linear for Agents? [Agents](https://linear.app/agents) are AI-driven members of your Linear workspace. They can be assigned to issues, added to projects, or @mentioned in comment threads, then complete work on complex tasks on your behalf. Agents can work across multiple issues and tools simultaneously.

Your Task

Build an AI agent that can work as a teammate to help human Linear users. Winners will receive the rare Linear Supply Kit, containing a curated collection of tools for builders and a $50 Amazon gift card.

Submission requirements:

- Projects must be built using the Linear for Agents API and/or SDK
- Include a 1-4 minute video demoing your agent working on, implementing, or resolving a Linear issue or Project
- Provide a novel solution to an issue commonly faced by PMs, engineers, and designers building software. Some examples include:
- Product documentation and changelogs are out of date and falling behind the pace of feature launches.
- PMs spend a lot of time researching customer details such as their industry, contact info, tech stack, etc. to inform feature specs and design.
- Engineers are spending too much time resolving simple bug reports.
- A company has added a number of agents to work with them, but they need a way to manage all of these new agentic teammates. They would like some way to better handle multi-agent workflows, handoffs between agents, review of agent work, and merging of agent work.
- An engineering team is having trouble reviewing and merging PRs on a timely basis. (See our [PR review feature](https://linear.app/changelog/2025-01-23-pull-request-reviews), currently in public alpha.)
- Employees are taking too long deciding what to order for lunch every day, greatly impacting overall productivity.
- For more ideas, watch our [request for agents](https://youtu.be/pUOk5W2G66o?feature=shared&t=846).
- You may use any model you wish, but refer to our recommendations in the [resources below](https://www.notion.so/Linear-HackThe6ix-Resources-2319ef0487a58022abfdd86035866368?pvs=21)

Judging criteria:

- Hack offers a creative and novel solution not yet represented by [existing agents](https://linear.app/integrations/agents) (Innovation - 30%)
- Implementation must include code that responds to an @mention or issue assignment in Linear (Technical implementation - 30%)
- Submission video clearly and succinctly demonstrates the agent’s capabilities within Linear (Demo - 20%)
- Agent function and UX is informed by real world use cases and workflows (Applications - 20%)

You can find more information here: https://www.notion.so/linearapp/Linear-HackThe6ix-Resources-2319ef0487a58022abfdd86035866368

Each member of the winning team will receive:

- $50 Amazon Gift Card
- Linear Supply Kit

Build a hack that focuses on improving the developer experience in some meaningful way - this could be tackling any part of the development lifecycle (creating, modifying or testing software)!

We'd love for you to try out Warp as an Agentic Development Environment (https://warp.dev/)! Feel free to send us your feedback in our Discord channel or public GitHub repository! Note that this will have no impact on judging.

Each member of the winning team will receive a Keychron C3 Pro Mechanical Keyboard!

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?

Each member of the winning team will receive:

- Google Swag

MongoDB Atlas takes the leading modern database and makes it accessible in the cloud! Get started with a $50 credit for students or sign up for the Atlas free forever tier (no credit card required). Along with a suite of services and functionalities, you'll have everything you need to manage all of your data, and you can get a headstart with free resources from MongoDB University! Build a hack using MongoDB Atlas for a chance to win a M5GO IoT Starter Kit for you and each member of your team.

Each member of the winning team will receive:

- M5GO IoT Starter Kit

Auth0 wants your applications to be secure! Why spend hours building features like social sign-in, Multi-Factor Authentication, and passwordless log-in when you can enable them through Auth0 straight out of the box? Auth0 is free to try, doesn’t require a credit card, and allows for up to 7,000 free active users and unlimited log-ins. Make your new account today and use any of the Auth0 APIs for a chance to win a pair of wireless headphones for you and each member of your team!

Each member of the winning team will receive:

- Wireless Headphones