★ Black + Decker Ice Cream Maker

This prize will be awarded to the project that exhibits creativity, innovation, and diversity of thought. Special consideration will be given to projects that promote women empowerment and the goals of Girls Hoo Hack/Girls Who Code at UVA.

★ MNN 15.6" Portable Monitor

Join us in our mission to decrease gender disparity in the STEM workforce! Build a project that empowers women and emphasizes diversity.

★ Magcubic HY300PRO Mini Projector

This prize will be awarded to the project that pushes the limits of technology and innovation, aimed at creating a meaningful future for humanity.

★ $500 Cash Prize

Sponsored by UVA Sustainable IT! This track rewards projects that focus on eco-friendly solutions and sustainability. Whether you're tackling energy efficiency, reducing waste, or promoting greener practices, projects in this category should aim to promote sustainability.

★ Sony WH-1000XM5 Headphones

Sponsored by CoStar Group! This prize is reserved for the best project by beginner hackers. To qualify for this prize, the team must be made up of a majority of beginner hackers.

★ $120 UVA Bookstore Gift Card + 1-year subscriptions for NordVPN, NordPass, Coveron and Incogni + 1 GB of free data for Saily

Sponsored by the UVA Bookstore, NordVPN, NordPass, Coveron, Incogni, and Saily! This prize will be awarded to the project that gives the most captivating live demo at the Live Demo Event!

★ $120 Cash Prize

Sponsored by ML @ UVA! This prize will be awarded to the project with the best use of artificial intelligence or machine learning!

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!

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?

SenseCAP Card Tracker || 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!

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

M5Stack Official Tab5 || 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 prizes for you and 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.

Unified Data Stack: Store relational user profiles and high-frequency metric streams side-by-side in a single database.

Instant Dashboards: Serve lag-free, real-time frontend charts using pre-computed Continuous Aggregates.

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!

$100 ||
Give your project another chance to shine!

Your hackathon may end after the weekend, but your project story is just getting started. Publish what you built on DEV and help other developers learn from your process.

Each month, the DEV editorial team will select at least one favorite project. Additional projects may be selected depending on submission volume.

Selections consider technical substance, originality, clear storytelling, and community popularity. Great work deserves an audience, so make your post useful, memorable, and easy to share.