Welcome to Quackathon 2026! 🦆💻

We are thrilled to have you hacking with us. This Devpost is your central hub for project submissions, rules, and judging criteria. Whether you are building your first web app, training a machine learning model, or creating a game, we can't wait to see what you build over the next 24 hours.

Important Note for 2026: We want you to have maximum, uninterrupted time to focus on your hacks, so there is no speed networking this year. Dive straight in and get building!

Schedule: Day 1

  • 10:00 - Registration

  • 11:00 - Opening Ceremony

  • 12:00 - Coding Starts

  • 13:00 - Lunch

  • 15:15 - NCR Atleos Workshop

  • 16:00 - BlackRock Workshop

  • 19:00 - Dinner

  • 20:00 - Hackathons UK Cup Stacking

Day 2

  • 00:00 - Midnight Pizza

  • 01:00 - Gaming Tournament

  • 09:00 - Breakfast

  • 12:00 - Submission Deadline and Judging Starts

  • 13:00 - Closing Ceremony

  • 14:00 - End of Quackathon

Requirements

Your Submission would need to include:

  • A written description of the project and the problem it solves.

  • A link to the public GitHub repository.

  • Specify maximum team size (usually up to 4).

Hackathon Sponsors

Prizes

£275+ in prizes
+ other prizes
NCR Award
£75 in cash
1 winner

Winning team
£75 Amazon vouchers per person and NCR Atleos goodies.

Runners up (2nd & 3rd) 
NCR Atleos goodies.

Mini challenge
NCR Atleos goodies.

Aladdin by BlackRock Award
1 winner

AirPods Pro 3 or
Nintendo Switch 1 or
NINJA CRISPi Pro AS101UKLG 7-in-1 Glass Air Fryer

Junior Challenge Award
£200 in cash
1 winner

£50 Amazon voucher per member

[Hackathons UK] Best Use of AI Agents on Arm
1 winner

Develop an innovative AI agent running on Arm hardware—from mobile devices to cloud servers! This challenge encourages leveraging LLMs, either on-device or via API, to create practical solutions. Show us the best use of AI agents on Arm and win a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W kit! Learn more at https://hackuk.org/arm

[Hackathons UK] Hackiest Hack
1 winner

Build something over-the-top over engineered and held together with string. Use your imagination. Our favourite project will win Shark Plushes for each team member.

Devpost Achievements

Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:

Judges

NCR Atleos

NCR Atleos

DUCS Team

DUCS Team

Aladdin by BlackRock

Aladdin by BlackRock

Holly Packer

Holly Packer
Hackathons UK

Judging Criteria

  • TBD
    Consult an organiser if you have any questions. Judging criteria are also put on Discord

Questions? Email the hackathon manager

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Hackathon sponsors

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