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

Imagine empowering young adults to take control of their financial future with confidence and ease. Your challenge is to develop an innovative financial planning solution tailored to their unique needs. It could help users set and achieve their financial goals, track their progress, receive personalized advice, or ! Let's create a solution that is an engaging and accessible experience that allows your creativity to shine!

Kinetic Vision - API Integration

Build a web application that plugs into existing APIs from one-or-more external tools to create a novel user experience! View full challenge information here!

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/rareperks

Medpace - Improve Medical Research Challenge

Best digital solution to improve the clinical trial process. Your challenge is to create a solution to improve or add value to the clinical trial process. More information can be found here!

AWS

Awarded to the project that best integrates AWS services to build a functional and innovative solution. Judges will evaluate the depth of AWS service usage, the quality of integration, and the project’s overall completeness and creativity. Must use at least four AWS services, with integration between services considered a plus. Additional consideration will be given to teams that incorporate AWS AI services into their solution.

Parkinson's Together

Create a product that can help address the struggles of individuals with neurological disorders.

ICR Sponsored Capture The Flag

ICR is hosting a full Capture The Flag (CTF) challenge running throughout the entire event!

Rules and details: https://ctf.icr-team.com/rules