🌱 About the Challenge

Get ready to innovate at the Tech to Treasure Environmental Hackathon! Join 100+ Bay Area students for a full day of building sustainability-focused technology solutions that tackle real-world environmental challenges, with free food provided for all participants!

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Requirements

There is no pre-work allowed before the hackathon. All projects must be built during the event.

What to submit:

  • ✍️ Project Title & Description - A clear & descriptive name + a short description of the problem you are solving, your solution, and its relevance to sustainability (100-500 words)
  • πŸ‘₯ Team Members - List of all team members participating in the project
  • πŸ”— Source Code Link (GitHub/GitLab/Bitbucket, etc.)
  • πŸ“· Website Link or Demo Video - include link to working demo OR a pitch/demo video of up to 5 minutes

Projects must focus on a sustainability or environmental theme and demonstrate a working prototype or well-developed concept.

Hackathon Sponsors

Prizes

$450+ in prizes
+ other prizes
1st Place
$300 in cash
1 winner

+$6800 in credits/subscriptions

YRI Fellowship $1500 scholarship per member
2-year Code CraftersVIP membership $720
HHKB Professional HYBRID Type-S keyboard $299
CleanShot X license $29 each
1-year Mobbin Pro free + Mobbin Merch $150 each
Momen credit $2000
Featherless credits $300
relay.app +2,500 AI Credits/month for 1 year $1080
1 year of Linearity Pro $79
Daily Integral of 6-month subscription $40
3-month access and $230 credit for nexos.ai $290 each
3 months ElevenLabs Pro $297 each
5 .xyz domains $75

2nd Place
$100 in cash
1 winner

+$3400 in credits/subscriptions

YRI Fellowship $1500 scholarship per member
1-year Code Crafters VIP membership $360
CleanShot X license $29 each
1-year Mobbin Pro free + Mobbin Merch $150 each
Featherless credits $150
relay.app +1,500 AI credits/month $648
3 months of Linearity Pro $38.97
3 months of Daily Integral subscription $20
1-year NordVPN $65.88 each
1-year NordPass $23.88 each
1-year Incogni $95.88 each

O'Reilly AI Textbooks $300
3 .xyz domains $45

3rd Place
$50 in cash
1 winner

+$2500 in credits/subscriptions

YRI Fellowship $1500 scholarship per member
CodeCrafters 6-month VIP membership $240
CleanShot X license $29 each
1-year Mobbin Pro free + Mobbin Merch $150 each
Featherless credits $75
1 month of Linearity Pro $12.99
Relay.app +1,000 AI credits/month $432
1 month of Daily Integral subscription $6
1 GB of free data for Saily 3.99 each
2 .xyz domains $30

4th Place
1 winner

$373 in credits/subscriptions

CleanShot X license $29 each
+750 relay.app AI credits/month $324
Mobbin Merch $20 each

5th Place
1 winner

$265 in credits/subscriptions

relay.app +500 AI credits/month $216
CleanShot X license $29 each
Mobbin Merch $20 each

Wolfram Award
1 winner

+$2160

Wolfram One for 1 year $1660 each
Eligibility for a 500 dollar scholarship to Wolfram's summer program

Best Project Built with ElevenLabs
1 winner

6 months ElevenLabs Scale Tier $1980 each

Participation
100 winners

All participants receive additional $6000 in credits/subscriptions:

Momen credits $100 each
3 month Mobbin Pro $45 each
n8n Cloud Pro $50 each
6 month Wolfram|One $830 each
1 month Featherless AI Inference Access
1 month ElevenLabs Creator Title $22 each
7 days Interview Cake full access license $50 x 50
Principles of Building AI Agents book $50 x 50

Devpost Achievements

Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:

Judges

Divyank Shah

Divyank Shah
Software Engineer @ Apple

Sanjay Delvi

Sanjay Delvi
Senior Software Engineering Manager @ Salesforce

Nishi Doshi

Nishi Doshi
Software Engineer III @ Google

Judging Criteria

  • Innovation
    Project is original and creative in addressing an environmental problem.
  • Real World Impact
    The potential of the solution to create meaningful and measurable environmental change.
  • Technical Difficulty
    The complexity and depth of the technology used to build the project.
  • Functionality
    How well the prototype works and whether it successfully demonstrates the intended core idea.
  • Presentation
    The team is clear and effective in communicating their problem, solution, and demo to the judges.

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