We are back! Following the great success of PhysTech 2025, we are excited to invite you to this year's edition: PhysTech 2026.

Website: https://binnovative-boston.github.io/phystech/2026.html

Discord: https://discord.gg/mt4RVtcA7h

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/phys.tech26/

Email: phystech@yahoo.com

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/17528013/

Book publication: Your project will be featured in a book in the Binnovative Innovation Book Series.

About the challenge

PhysTech is an online international hackathon led by students for anyone who does, watches, analyzes and promotes physical activities - including sports, workouts, fitness exercises, casual hobbies/pastimes, and recreational adventures.

PhysTech welcomes any type of physical activity. Sports and physical training are in. Yoga, pilates, ballet? Of course. Swimming, kayaking, cycling, dancing, skateboarding, rock/mountain climbing, hiking, horseback riding? Sure. Fishing, bowling, paddleboarding, scuba diving, rafting, cheerleading, outdoor bird watching, gardening, kite flying, disc golf (frisbee), or cornhole? Why not!

Not only athletes and recreational players, but also fans, coaches, referees/judges, and analysts are welcome.

PhysTech offers you a platform to address various needs, wants, and challenges in physical activities and produce creative solutions (hacks) with technology.

PhysTech welcomes anyone of all ages and all technical skills, from limited experience to advanced.

Entry is free.

Expected project topics include, but are not limited to:

Monitoring and enhancing performance
Logging and tracking practice, training, and exercise
Recording, analyzing, and communicating activity data
Applying data analytics to physical activity
Enhancing fan experience
Increasing participation/engagement in physical activity
Promoting health and wellness through physical activity
Preventing and helping heal from injuries
Improving dietary and nutritional assistance
Protecting and improving the environment for physical activity

Solutions can take many different forms, such as apps, games, social platforms, websites/services, devices, sensors, robots, audio/video, data collection/storage, data analysis/forecasts, data visualization, information retrieval, and 3-dimensional modeling/printing. PhysTech is hosted by Binnovative, a nonprofit organization in Massachusetts.

Book chapter publication: We will publish a book that features the projects presented at PhysTech 2026. Selected participants will be invited to extend their project descriptions and publish them as a book. We are planning to publish this book as a part of the Binnovative Innovation Book Series.

InnovArt is hosted by Binnovative, a nonprofit organization in Massachusetts.

Organizers:

Konomi Karube (Co-chair)
Naomi McCreary
Rei Nagata (Co-chair)
Hanna Suzuki (Co-chair)
Alyssa Yasuhara (Co-chair)
Rimi Yoshikawa

Requirements

Each participant/team is required to complete ALL of the following 3 retirements:

Submit your project to Devpost by 12 pm on June 27 (Sat), EST.
Register your project presentation by 12 pm on June 27 (Sat), EST.
Give a project presentation online on June 28 (Sun), EST.

Note that the deadlines are firm. No extensions will be given. Failure to meet the above requirements will disqualify you (and your team) from award judging.

A link for presentation registration will be shared in the PhysTech 2026 channel in Discord. To register your presentation, you will be asked to submit:

Your name and contact info
Your project presentation title
An abstract (short one-paragraph description) of your project
A publicly accessible link to your project is placed on an online code repository (e.g., GitHub) or online storage (e.g., Google Drive). We will verify the actual outcome of your work with this link in the afternoon of June 27. Please note that we will not schedule your presentation if we cannot verify your actual work. You can submit a link to your project on Devpost; however, please make sure that the link references the actual outcome of your work.

We will announce the schedule of project presentations (i.e., what time each presentation starts) by early morning of June 28 (Sun), EST. A Zoom link will be made available in the PhysTech 2026 channel in Discord.

Project Presentation: We tentatively plan to start project presentations at 10 am on June 28 (Sun), EST, but we might slightly adjust it based on the locations (time zones) where participants reside. We will announce the full presentation schedule by early morning of June 28 (Sun), EST. A Zoom link will be made available in the PhysTech 2026 channel of Discord.

You will have 10 minutes in total for your presentation, including approx. 3 minutes for QAs with judges and other participants.

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