Challenges
Every project competes for the ten open awards automatically. The four pitched challenges are problems we set; a team can opt in to up to three.
Sealed until kickoff
The full text of every challenge, including the 4 pitched ones, appears here at kickoff so every team starts at the same moment.
Sat, Oct 24, 10:15 AM ET
Open awards
- Grand PrizeThe best thing built this weekend, strong on every criterion.
- 2nd and 3rd PlaceThe next two strongest projects overall.
- Most Impactful HackThe project most likely to improve real lives.
- Most Innovative HackSomething genuinely new.
- Most Technically Complex HackThe hardest engineering problem, solved well.
- Best Hardware HackMake something physical work.
- Best User InsightThe team that learned the most from real people.
- Ihsan AwardDoing the work beautifully, with care.
- Most Likely to Become a VentureThe team that should keep going after Sunday.
- Best Use of GitHubA repository a stranger could pick up on Monday.
Pitched challenges, in one line each
Names and full briefs open at kickoff. Here's what each is about, so you can start thinking.
- 1Something your masjid community would use every week.
- 2Help Quran learning stick.
- 3Win back the hours lost to scrolling.
- 4Help a kid who has fallen behind catch up.