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All projects will automatically be considered for the overall prize - you don't need to opt into this one!

Build systems with many
interacting AI agents and
explore the unexpected
behaviors, roles, and social
dynamics that emerge as
they collaborate or compete
toward shared goals.

Study the gap between
designed systems and real
human behavior by analyzing
the traces people leave when
they ignore the “right” path
—and use those insights to
propose what should have
been built instead

Projects that improve access to technology for everyone by creating new ways of interacting through hardware or software, remove obstacles to enable wider use, and have a thoughtful approach to their design that takes usability into account.

Google Swag Kits
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?

SenseCAP Watcher & Presage Perks
Presage is pioneering the Human Sensing Layer, enabling any application to understand a person’s real-time physical and emotional state. With Presage, you can leverage clinically-proven vital signs, movement, emotion, and/or focus tracking to build a project that gives the standard camera super powers.

Ledger Nano S Plus
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!

Retro Wireless Mouse
DigitalOcean offers a reliable and easy-to-use cloud platform for every stage of your project. Leverage core services like Droplets, Managed Databases, and App Platform to build, deploy, and scale your application effortlessly. Building with AI? DigitalOcean Gradient™ AI enables you to build, train, and deploy machine learning models, including access to GPU infrastructure and serverless inference!

Sign up for DigitalOcean today and get $200 worth of free credits that you can use towards building your next great hack. Build with DigitalOcean's robust cloud infrastructure for a chance to win some great prizes for you and each of your teammates!

Wireless Earbuds
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!

Arduino Tiny ML Kit
Play with industry-leading LLMs on a single account using the Snowflake APIs. Adding AI capabilities into your application can be as simple as a single CURL command to Snowflake’s REST API.

Build customized applications, RAG powered chat bots, or embed AI-powered features into your app in half the time with half the hassle. Get started for free with a special, student 120-day Snowflake trial and check out this repository for an example of the Snowflake REST API in action.

Amazon Gift Card, Cozy Blanket, 36-Can Cooler, Camper Cup

FREE-WILi Device
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1st Place — $1,100
2nd Place — $300
3rd Place — $100
Please be sure to select this sponsor on Spartahack.com. This allows us to accurately match your project with the appropriate sponsor judges.

1st Place - 800. 2nd Place - 500. 3rd Place - 350.
Please be sure to select this sponsor on Spartahack.com. This allows us to accurately match your project with the appropriate sponsor judges.

This prize is for the LLM experts that endlessly refine their prompts to coax a perfect response through persuasion, motivational affirmations, threats or straight up desperate pleading. For this award, you'll show us one prompt that is used by your project that is crazy but effective, and how it gets you the result you want. (Note: here we are looking at the way your project uses AI, not how you used AI to generate the project code itself!)

For the most impressive project involving physical hardware, sensors, or embedded systems. Make things that interact with the real world!

Celebrating playful design, interactivity, and the joy of building something people want to play.

A beginner hack is considered a project where >50% of the team has never participated in a hackathon before. We want to recognize those who have gone through a great learning experience and can demonstrate how they levelled up their skills at the event!

Spent hours rehearsing your pitch, creating a flashy slideshow, or an especially engaging presentation? This award will recognize the effort put into the demonstration of your final product.

Please be sure to select this sponsor on Spartahack.com. This allows us to accurately match your project with the appropriate sponsor judges.

Prize: Steelseries Gaming Keyboards.

This award is for people who go above and beyond, both in idea and execution, in AI projects. If you deep dive into seemingly simple problems with custom trained models, elaborate AI pipelines, or give an absurd amount of thought to solving a very specific and narrow problem by pulling out all your CS chops, this award is for you.