Prize Categories

Best Business Plan
Awarded to the project with the most well-thought-out and feasible business strategy. Judges will evaluate the potential for real-world implementation, scalability, and market impact.

Most Technically Impressive
Recognizes the project demonstrating exceptional technical innovation, complexity, and skill. This prize celebrates engineering excellence and cutting-edge technology.

Best Social Impact
Given to the project that makes the greatest positive impact on society. Judges will look for solutions addressing pressing social, environmental, or humanitarian challenges.

People's Choice
This prize is decided by participant votes and celebrates the most popular project among attendees. A great opportunity to showcase creativity and make an impression on the hackathon community.

Most Useless Hack
Awarded to the most creative yet impractical project. This category celebrates originality, humor, and the idea that not all hacks have to be useful—some just need to make us laugh!

Best Use of AR
Recognizes the project that demonstrates the most innovative and effective use of augmented reality. This award celebrates creativity, technical execution, and real-world impact in enhancing user experiences.
Sponsor Prizes
Fifth Third Bank - Financial Well for Young Adults
Kinetic Vision - API Integration
Rare EVO
Build a Farcaster Frame that could be utilized by our NFT tickets for Rare Evo 2025, which are built on Base.
Example: A Frame that allows for NFT tickets to be registered (asking for the user to put information like name/email/company name) and then claimed, updating the metadata indicating that it goes from unclaimed to claimed status, while generating a unique QR code for check in at the ticketed event.
Here are our NFT tickets, but they could use any NFT to create a beta/test app.
https://rareevo.io/rareperksMedpace - Improve Medical Research Challenge
AWS
Parkinson's Together
ICR Sponsored Capture The Flag
ICR is hosting a full Capture The Flag (CTF) challenge running throughout the entire event!
Sign up here: https://ctf.icr-team.com/
Rules and details: https://ctf.icr-team.com/rules