Welcome to the WEHack Museum! For this year, develop an application that follows our theme, The Night at the Museum! Build an application that pushes meaningful change by studying the past to unlock and shape what’s to come. Reimagine how history and technology can work together to learn from the past, improve the present, and inspire the future.

Submission Requirements:
Github Repo (required)
Demo Video (optional)

Prizes:
1st Place: Apple iPads (11-inch - 128GB)
2nd Place: Apple Watch SE (2nd Gen)
3rd Place: Amazon Kindle (16 GB)

The museum is now open! Step inside with the UX Club and bring exhibits to life through careful curation and intentional, experience-driven design. Deliver an outstanding user experience. The final product should demonstrate seamless usability, captivating visual design, and a strong ability to resonate with its intended audience.

Judging Criteria:
User Interface
Usability
Impact
Innovation
Functional/Coded Prototype
Submission Requirements:
Figma Prototype (required)
Github Repo (optional)

Prizes:
1st Place: Logitech POP Mechanical Keyboards

Build a Personalized Risk Assessment experience that helps customers in auto, homeowners, or life insurance proactively reduce risk. Create an app/tool that collects a few user inputs (real or simulated) and uses AI or a simple ML/LLM-powered scoring approach to generate a clear risk score, explain the key drivers behind it, and deliver tailored, actionable safety recommendations that motivate behavior change and reduce the likelihood of claims.

Consider including: quick intake (a short quiz or sensor/simulated data), transparent explanations (“what raised/lowered your score”), timely alerts (weather, location, seasonal hazards), and engagement mechanics (goals, streaks, badges, progress over time). Bonus points for responsible design—privacy-friendly data choices, user consent, and recommendations that are realistic, safe, and easy to follow.

Prizes
1st Place: Meta Quest 3s
2nd Place: Beats Studio Pro
3rd Place: Anker Laptop Power Bank

Workshop
Hacking, but Make it Ethical - From Zero to Exploit: A Journey into Offensive Security

Design and prototype an AI agent—or multi-agent system—that demonstrates a thoughtful, intentional approach to memory over time. Your solution should clearly
illustrate how memory is created, stored, retrieved, updated, and used to drive
intelligent, context-aware behavior.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1hCzmcLpc-jdfzcUWl2e0URmuQxMvV-L6/view?usp=sharing

Prizes
1st Place: AirPods ($150 value)
2nd Place: Portable Monitor ($90 value)
3rd Place: Wireless Keyboard & Mouse Set ($40 value)

Workshop
Beyond Leetcode - Cracking the System Design Interview

Finance for All: Making saving, budgeting, and investing more engaging. At Fidelity, we believe financial confidence should be accessible to everyone. Your challenge is to design a solution that makes saving, budgeting, or investing more engaging and intuitive. This might include a gamified savings experience, a simplified budgeting tool, a guided investing experience for beginners, or an educational feature that helps users build confidence over time. Build an experience that helps people start with confidence, stay motivated, and develop lasting financial habits. Clearly show the user problem you’re solving, your solution, and how it drives long‑term engagement.

Prizes
1st: $100 Gift card + Fidelity Branded Swag Bag
2nd: Fidelity Branded Swag Bag

Workshop
The impact of Cybersecurity and Threat Intelligence

Our track is The Best Financial Hack! This is your chance to change the game in fintech. Whether it's an innovative payment solution, helping consumers shop smarter, making financing more accessible, or a creative way to improve financial literacy, we want to see your boldest ideas in action. The track is intentionally vague to let you bring your own creativity to it! You can optionally take advantage of Capital One’s Hackathon API, Nessie (api.nessieisreal.com). It provides mock banking/transaction data to help spearhead your idea.

Prizes
$250 Giftogram per person on the winning team.

Using this year’s theme, develop a startup concept that brings a piece of history, culture, or the past into the future. Choose an artifact, historical figure, or moment in time and imagine how it could inspire a modern-day startup. Build a functional prototype (using Figma) and outline a well-thought out plan that explains the problem, solution, target market/users, business model, and/or impact.

Judging Criteria:
Innovation & Originality
Historical/Cultural Integration
Problem–Solution Fit
Quality
Target Users & Market Understanding
Feasibility & Business Model
Impact & Value Potential

Submission Requirements:
Figma Prototype (required)
A detailed document (3-page max) about the business model, market analysis, competitive landscape (SWOT analysis), revenue streams, growth strategy, and cost breakdown (required)

Prizes:
1st Place: Apple AirPods 4

Welcome to Biotech Club’s Conservatory Lab, where technology uncovers the mysteries of the past to shape the future of life. Design a hardware, software, or AI solution that enhances an aspect of the medical or biomedical workflow. Your project may automate data sensing and gathering, optimize cleaning and operational processes in clinical environments, or protect and manage sensitive biomedical data. The goal is to reduce human error, accelerate operations, and make complex environments run smarter and more efficiently.

Projects will be judged on:
Impact
Functionality
Feasibility
Innovation
Clarity

Submission Requirements:
Github Repo (required)
Demo Video (optional)

Prizes:
1st Place: Mini Projectors + Apple Airtags

The night is young, and there are so many things to explore in the Museum. The Nebula Labs wing offers a curated look into courses, professors, rooms, events, and more! Build an application, service, or tool using the Nebula API that enhances student experiences and fills a real need at UT Dallas or a broader college community.

Projects will be judged on:
Technical Implementation
Innovation & Creativity
Usefulness & Impact
Execution
Clarity
Relevance to Track

Submission Requirements:
Github Repo (required)
Must use the Nebula API (or the provided raw data)
Project must be beneficial to students
Demo Video (optional)

Prizes:
1st Place: JBL FLIP 5, Waterproof Bluetooth Speakers

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?

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Prize: Google Swag Kits

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 will empower you to build rich, immersive experiences without the need for actors or complex audio production, using simply the power of AI.

Integrate fully autonomous audio experiences into your hack with ElevenLabs and give your project a voice, along with giving your team the chance to win some wireless earbuds!

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Prize: Wireless Earbuds

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 ideas become real world projects. 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!

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Prize: Ledger Nano S Plus

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 and claim your free cloud credits! Take your next hack to the cloud with Vultr for a chance to win some awesome portable screens for you and your team!

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Prize: Portable Screen

GoDaddy Registry is giving you everything you need to be the best hacker no matter where you are. Register your domain name with GoDaddy Registry for a chance to win some amazing prizes!

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Prize: Digital Gift Card