For the hacks that force you to unearth your potential and make us want to join the winners by the campfire!

First Place: Fireplace Aroma Diffuser
Second Place: Certificate

The most creative, technical, and innovative use of circuitry, electronics, or microcontrollers in a hack.

Each member of the winning team will receive a drone.

The Best Hack by a First Time Hacker that shows the most individual growth. Were you able to learn a new skill at Bitcamp and apply it to your project? At least half of the hackers in your team must be a first-time Bitcamp hacker to be eligible for this prize.

Each member of the winning team will receive an astronaut room projector.

Best overall submitted UX/UI designs of hacks from the weekend. Factors considered will be innovation, aesthetics, service to the project/challenge, and the process.

Each member of the winning team will receive a sticker printer.

The most creative, innovative, and well-developed hack that “shoots for the moon”.

First Place: Moon Lamp
Second Place: Certificate

Most unique project! This prize will be awarded to two projects that best entertain our judges.

First Place: Diamond Painting Kit
Second Place: Certificate

Does your hack solve a social problem or help empower a marginalized community? Submit it here to win our Social Good prize!

First Place: Owala
Second Place: Certificate

Created a hack that gamifies an everyday task? Submit it here!

Each member of the winning teams will receive a Nintendo Switch Stand.

Hackers vote on which project(s) they liked the best!

First Place: Speaker

Does your hack strive to help the environment or solve an issue related to sustainability? Submit it here to win Best Sustainability Hack!

Each member of the winning teams will receive a compost bin for their kitchen.

The best hack that is not centered on the project being an AI wrapper.

Each member of the winning team will receive a record player.

Digital forensics topics include but are not limited to: Data carving\reconstruction\recovery tools, finding specific objects (other than faces) in a large collection of digital images, steganography detection or exploitation, registry or memory artifact analysis, encryption detection, or anything else that could aid investigators who are looking at computers recovered from crime scenes.

IMPORTANT NOTE: Anyone can participate in our company challenge during the hackathon, but when it comes to awarding a prize, individuals must be based and living in the United States to receive a prize. Non-US based individuals are not eligible to receive a prize.

PRIZE: $100 Amazon e-Gift Card and CT swag package valued at over $100. to include a Yeti Tumbler and Nike hat, to each member of the winning team who design the best application that pertains to digital forensics or reverse engineering.

This prize will be awarded to the team that a) transforms complex data into a clear and engaging visual experience, b) enables users to explore information through interactive features such as filtering, drill-downs, or dynamic visual elements, and c) leverages modern visualization technologies such as Plotly, Tableau, Power BI, or other visualization frameworks and libraries to build interfaces that make complex data intuitive, insightful, and easy to explore.

A backpack filled with Peraton swag and a pair of wireless Beats Headphones for each member of the team.

Teams will build (at least) one TerpAI agent that students and/or faculty simply can't live without. Think beyond the hack-a-thon. Create a tool that solves real campus problems and can be integrated into everyday Terp life. Make it so indispensable that the campus has no choice but to roll it out to all—then convince the panel with a shark-tank style pitch that seals the deal. Bonus points for social media buzz: tag @Microsoft and @Cloudforce on LinkedIn, with double points for the most engagement.

First Place Prize: XBox Series X
Second Place Prize: Mentorship Lunch with a Cloudforce Executive and a Swag Bag
Third Place Prize: A Swag Bag

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 HackathonAPI, Nessie (api.nessieisreal.com). It provides mock banking/transaction data to help spearhead your idea.

Prize: $300 gift cards from Giftogram, to each member of the winning team

This award celebrates the project that best leverages technology to create meaningful social impact. Whether addressing challenges in healthcare, education, environmental sustainability, accessibility, or community support, the winning hack demonstrates a clear commitment to improving lives and uplifting underserved or marginalized groups. Judges will look for thoughtful problem selection, real-world relevance, and a compelling vision for positive change. Technical complexity is valued, but priority is given to solutions that are impactful, inclusive, and scalable beyond the hackathon.

Prize: Bloomberg Swag Bags

We want to keep it relatively broad, with the single caveat that hackers will need to show at least 2 devices connected using Netcore. The hackers will need to use our SDK to do this, which we will provide access to via our website/linktree.

As for the prize, we’d love to provide a Raspberry Pi kit for each member of the winning team. In addition, the prize includes a guaranteed final-round interview for a paid Netcore Brand Ambassador Internship, as well as a final-round interview for a $2,000 Builder Grant to support continued development of the project.

Ambrook works with businesses in the real economy: agriculture, construction, trucking, manufacturing, and more. Build a creative project that has a real world component. From moving something physical to incorporating natural resources, there are a lot of different ways you could take this!

Winners will be invited to a special tour hosted with Ambrook’s farming customers IRL (depending on the location of the hackers).

We want to highlight people who make
contributions, build with open source, or care about it, because that is who we are.

1st, 2nd, 3rd prizes, offering $300, $150, and $75 in credits respectively.

Most LIT Hack is judged by the most number of LEDs used in a hack. Monitors and screens don't count to the total count of LEDs. LED strips will count. This is meant to encourage hackers to implement more fun hardware in their hacks instead of just only having a screen with an app.

Prize: ESP32 Kits

The Davis Prize for Human Ingenuity’s purpose is to create tools for hackathon organizers to detect if AI has been used in the creation of a hackathon project, and ideally to what degree if so. The goal is to allow organizers to host a “best human made hack” prize at a future hackathons. Projects should be open source and freely and easily usable by other hackathon organizers around the world to have the best chance at winning -- you can ask me questions about the prize during the event at the Alumni table or on Slack!

Each member of the winning team will receive a battery pack.

Best example of using trained and initially prompted AI agents launched at Bitcamp to autonomously red team another software or agent or build the best unexpected/unprompted output on its own after initial training and prompting.

Prize: $75 Gift Card

The Friendship Award celebrates the connections and shared experiences that help make Bitcamp special. Teams will submit a small, thoughtful digital artifact and reflection capturing how they bonded over the weekend.

Each member of the winning team will receive a small friendship plushie.

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?

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!

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!

As AI agents become more autonomous, security is more critical than ever. We’re looking for the most innovative implementation of Auth0 for AI Agents. Show us how you use Auth0’s robust APIs to manage identities, secure agent-to-user interactions, and protect your application’s integrity.

Why Auth0?
Zero Friction: 7,000 free monthly active users.
Zero Risk: No credit card needed to sign up.
Total Security: Industry-leading MFA and social integrations.

Auth0 wants your applications to be secure! Why spend hours building features like social sign-in, Multi-Factor Authentication, and passwordless log-in when you can enable them through Auth0 straight out of the box? You can also secure your AI applications with Auth0 for AI Agents.

Auth0 is free to try, doesn’t require a credit card, and allows for up to 7,000 free active users and unlimited log-ins. Make your new account today and use any of the Auth0 APIs for a chance to win a pair of wireless headphones for you and each member of your team!

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!

Best hack that demonstrates app development principles and incorporates App Dev workshop content. Each member of the winning team will receive a speaker. If the winners are from UMD, they will also receive a spot on an App Dev project team.

The theme for the game jam is Echo! You can interpret the theme in any way you like, as long as you can justify how your submission relates to the theme.

Rules:
You are free to build your game with any engine or tool that you have the legal right to use
You are free to use any assets you find online as long as you have the legal right to use them (check the license!)
Your final game must run either on Windows or in the Browser without requiring any additional dependencies.
No micro-transactions (or macro-transactions for that matter). Your game should be 100% free to play.
No NSFW content.

Each member of the winning team gets a red Xbox controller.

This prize category is for people who haven't had much experience with quantum or physics, and is focused on using classical algorithms, solvers, etc to solve a problem related to quantum!

First Place: JLab Wireless Earbuds
Second Place: Wireless Charging Pad

This prize category focuses on hacks that use quantum algorithms to solve a physics problem!

First Place: JLab Wireless Earbuds
Second Place: Wireless Charging Pad

A $100 worth of UberEats gift cards split evenly among your team.

All members of the team will receive a certificate of recognition.

All members of the team will receive a certificate of recognition.

Best hack that demonstrates machine learning principles and incorporates ML workshop content. A $100 worth of Amazon gift cards will be split evenly among your team.