About the Challenge
DSH Hacks V1 is a global student competition open to students aged 13+ hosted collaboratively by three youth-led organizations: DeltaForge Hacks, NextHorizon, and STEMise.
Theme: AI x STEM Education
This event brings together young innovators from around the world to reimagine the future of STEM education through artificial intelligence.
Participants will work individually or in teams to design and develop a meaningful technical product that leverages AI to improve, enhance, or expand STEM education. Projects may range from machine learning tools that personalize learning pathways to computer vision systems for laboratory simulations, to AI-driven platforms that increase accessibility for underrepresented communities. Creativity, feasibility, technical depth, and real-world impact will be central to evaluation.
The theme of this competition is to create tools that help students learn STEM more effectively, interactively, and accessibly. These tools can be an app, a website, a simulation, a system, or an algorithm.
Participants are allowed to use AI to encourage them to build a meaningful solution in the realm of STEM education and to lower the technical barrier that imposes challenges for beginners with ambitious project ideas.
Get Started
Ask around and form a team! We highly recommend finding like-minded individuals around you to help make your ideas a reality!
Please join these Discord servers: DeltaForge Hacks & STEMise! You may very well find your new team!
Requirements
Submission Requirements
Project: Can be a website, app, or other coding prototypes that have user interaction capabilities. Hardware components are allowed if there is a coding component present along with them.
Demo Video: Video explaining the purpose of the project, showcasing project features, and demonstrating how users interact with the prototype.
One Page Project Description in PDF format: A page describing the project purpose and key features.
Github Repository / Code PDF: PDF document showcasing all code developed towards the creation of the project.
Prizes
1st Place
$100 Cash Prize
CodeCrafters 2 Year VIP Membership ($720)
Featherless AI Credits ($300)
AoPS Coupon ($50)
CoCalc License ($120)
HRT Merch
2nd Place
$75 Cash Prize
CodeCrafters 1 Year VIP Membership ($360)
Fetherless AI Credits ($150)
AoPS Coupon ($25)
CoCalc License ($60)
HRT Merch
3rd Place
$50 Cash Prize
CodeCrafters 6 Month VIP Membership ($180)
Featherless AI Credits ($75)
AoPS Coupon ($25)
CoCalc License ($30)
HRT Merch
Participation Prize
Ideavo Pro Plan (50% off)
Participation Certificate
Interview Cake License (50 Winners)
Special Awards - Edtech
Aniko.AI: 2 months premium for 10 awardees ($980)
Crackd.It: 3 months premium for Top 3 winners ($1800)
Devpost Achievements
Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:
Judges
DeltaForge Team
Team with Strong Computer Science Knowledge
STEMise Team
Team Passionate about STEM and Innovation
Sohil Shah
Staff Software Engineer, PayPal
Lovleen Kaur
Software Engineer, Cisco Systems
Avaneesh Desai
Senior Frontend Engineer, Highspot
Jaikumar Banthia
Software Development Manager, Amazon Web Services
Fenil Shah
Senior Software Engineer, Amazon
Himanshu Aseeja
Principal Architect & Vice President, Citizens Bank
Praneetha Kotla
Lead Robotic Process Automation Developer, ERP Smartlabs
Sharan Babu ParamasivamMurugesan
Senior Software Engineer, Microsoft
Parth Rana
Assistant Vice President, State Street
Suraj Devatha
Senior Software Engineer
Danil Matrosov
Founder & CEO, Octery
Aman Bakshi
Senior Software Engineer, Apple
Gediminas Pažėra
Healthcare AI Engineer (Oxford PhD)
Bharat Khanna
Senior Staff Backend and AI Systems Engineer, Achieve
Chandni Bhatia
Vice President and Lead Quantitative Developer
Preethi Bharathy
Data Scientist
Srinath Gopinath
Reliability Engineer
Jay-Jay Qian
Member of Technical Staff (Data Science)
Sai Joshitha Kathari
Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Dishant Shahani
Technical Lead
Prabu Deivendran
Senior Technical Lead at HCL America, Inc.
Logeshwari Ramalingam
Senior Software Engineer at PayPal
Venkata Krishna Bharadwaj Parasaram
Senior Project Manager
Urvi Bhanushali
Software Engineer at Meta
Ankita Agrawal
Senior Member of Technical Staff
Ansh Bilimoria
Software Engineer at Meta
Mihir Shelar
Senior Technical Program Manager at Amazon
Vaibhav Sharma
Cloud Data Platform Engineer, Ford Credit
Pallavi Shrivastava
Vice President Product Marketing at U.S. Bank
Naveed Uddin Mohammed
Network Security Engineer | Researcher
Chirag Vinodkumar Pandey
Software Engineer, Amazon Web Services
Swarup Dongare
Data Engineering Management and Governance Manager at Accenture
Maksym Strizhov
Founder & Lead Systems Architect at VOID Systems
Ken Chew
Data Science/Machine Learning Lead
Atharv Chandratre
Software Engineer, DoorDash
Ravi Kiran Pagidi
Senior Data Engineer (AI/ML/NLP)
Alex Dainiak
Technical Lead
Ravi Teja
Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Oracle America Inc.
Anusha Mukka
Software Engineer
Sajal Baisakhiya
Principal Cloud Database Architect
Harshavardhan Peddireddy
Platform Architect at Meijer INC, Michigan, USA
Ifeoma Eleweke
DevOps Engineer
Praveenkumar Kondikoppa
Senior Software Engineer at Google Workspace AI Platform
Jim Markunas
Senior Project Manager
Judging Criteria
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Idea
Did the proposal address the problem statement and theme? Was the idea innovative? How much potential impact could this proposal have if deployed to the public? -
Implementation
Does the solution work? Did the team achieve everything they wanted? How technically challenging/impressive was the implementation? -
Design
Did the team put thought into the user experience? How well designed is the interface? -
Presentation
Does the presentation clearly define and address the problem statement?
Questions? Email the hackathon manager
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