Selecting this award enters your team in the CGI main track and makes it eligible for all three placements: $500 for first, $300 for second, and $200 for third. Build and pitch a working solution to the Northwind client brief, supported by a one-page value case. Full brief and CSV data pack: https://tracker.hackthehill.com/resources#cgi-challenge-the-northwind-brief

Second place in the CGI Challenge. Teams enter this main track by selecting CGI Challenge — First Place.

Third place in the CGI Challenge. Teams enter this main track by selecting CGI Challenge — First Place.

First place in the Civic Technology main track. Selecting this award enters your team in the Civic Technology track and makes it eligible for all three placements: $500 for first, $300 for second, and $200 for third. Build technology that helps people engage with government, public institutions, public services, or civic life. Full challenge details: https://tracker.hackthehill.com/resources#civic-technology-challenge

Second place in the Civic Technology main track. Teams enter this main track by selecting Civic Technology — First Place.

Third place in the Civic Technology main track. Teams enter this main track by selecting Civic Technology — First Place.

First place in the General Challenge. Selecting this award enters your team in the General main track and makes it eligible for all three placements: $500 for first, $300 for second, and $200 for third. The first-place team also receives three months of ElevenLabs Pro per team member—a $297 value per person, with 600,000 credits per month. Open to any eligible technical project; there is no required theme.

Second place in the General Challenge. Teams enter this main track by selecting General Challenge — First Place.

Third place in the General Challenge. Teams enter this main track by selecting General Challenge — First Place.

$200 total for one winning team. Awarded to the strongest project built entirely with open-source technology. Full challenge details: https://tracker.hackthehill.com/resources#best-foss-project

$200 total for one winning team. Awarded for an exceptionally clear, polished, accessible, and thoughtful user experience. Full challenge details: https://tracker.hackthehill.com/resources#best-uiux

$200 total for one winning team. Awarded to the strongest project that meaningfully incorporates physical hardware. Full challenge details: https://tracker.hackthehill.com/resources#best-hardware-hack

$200 total for one winning team. Build something that removes a barrier to education, explores a new way of learning, or serves an overlooked or underserved niche. Full challenge details: https://tracker.hackthehill.com/resources#mathematech-mini-challenge-education-for-everyone

One combined challenge with one winning team. Each team member receives three months of ElevenLabs Scale—a $897 value per person, with 1.8 million credits per month—plus the MLH wireless-earbuds award. Build a project that makes meaningful, functional use of ElevenLabs to create natural, expressive, or dynamic audio. Hacker guide: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mCh5MtOzBw0aJpurQVUmIVFfPMAHW3MjNemE-LNiMto/edit?usp=sharing. Complete resources: https://tracker.hackthehill.com/resources.

MLH 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?

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!

Stream Deck Mini
Building high-performance apps under hackathon deadlines shouldn't mean spending half your weekend configuring complex databases or learning obscure query languages. Tiger Data extends PostgreSQL to give student developers an ultra-fast foundation for real-time data, time-series metrics, and complex analytics.

Why build with Tiger Data this weekend?

Standard SQL Power: Query massive datasets instantly using the SQL you already know, with no complex NoSQL aggregation pipelines required.

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90%+ Data Compression: Store millions of events on free-tier cloud instances without running out of disk space.

Whether you’re building real-time IoT monitoring, AI-driven analytics dashboards, or financial prediction engines, show us how Tiger Data powers your project. The team that demonstrates the most innovative, impactful, and performance-driven use of Tiger Data will take home some great prizes!

Fitbit Inspire & 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.

Use any of the Presage SDKs to integrate capabilities like real-time heart rate, breathing rate, engagement levels, and facial expressions into your hack with just a few lines of code.

Immersive Gaming & Entertainment: Dynamically change game difficulty or story elements based on a player's excitement or focus levels.
Contactless Wellness & Fitness: Build a non-invasive app that monitors stress, recovery, or fitness performance.
Accessibility & Security: Utilize vital signs for effortless authentication, or to enhance accessibility.
Productivity: Design a tool that tracks focus or stress.
Build your next hack with Presage and show us the future of human-computer interaction! Win awesome prizes along for with the following perks from the Presage team:
Free refills for Presage Development credits to accelerate you through your next three months of building
30% off all Presage usage charges for your first year after going live

Portable Screens
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!

Wireless Headphones
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!

Digital Gift Card
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!