Awarded to the best overall project of the hackathon.

Each team members will win a Nintendo Switch 2 and MLH winner pin

Awarded to the best beginner project of the hackathon.

Each team member will win an iPad (11th Generation)and MLH winner pin

Ready to move beyond simple text chatbots? This track challenges you to build the next generation of AI applications using Google's most advanced tools for generative media and autonomous agents. We are looking for solutions that don't just talk, but do—creating rich media on the fly and executing complex tasks autonomously.

Whether you are focused on pushing the boundaries of creative expression with our latest media models or building sophisticated reasoning engines that can navigate real-world workflows, this is your chance to build with the tools that are defining the future of applied AI.

To qualify for the Google track's prizes, your project must be one of the following:

1. Media Mastery: Projects that leverage Google's cutting-edge generative media models. This includes using Veo 3.1 for advanced video generation, Imagen 3 for high-fidelity creation, or Gemini 2.5 Flash Image (aka "nano-banana") for precise, prompt-based image editing and character consistency.

2. Agentic Intelligence: Projects that build autonomous agents capable of reasoning, planning, and executing tasks. These should be built using Google's Agent Development Kit (ADK) and can be deployed using the Vertex AI Agent Engine for production-grade scalability and memory management.

3. Most Impactful: Projects that demonstrate clear real-world utility and scalability. This award recognizes solutions with practical deployment potential—whether in consumer products, enterprise workflows, or industry systems—showing the ability to meaningfully shift how something is done today.

Overall Prize - Pixel Bud Pros + Exclusive Swag Bundle
Beginner Prize - Exclusive Swag Bundle

Ready to move beyond simple text chatbots? This track challenges you to build the next generation of AI applications using Google's most advanced tools for generative media and autonomous agents. We are looking for solutions that don't just talk, but do—creating rich media on the fly and executing complex tasks autonomously.

Whether you are focused on pushing the boundaries of creative expression with our latest media models or building sophisticated reasoning engines that can navigate real-world workflows, this is your chance to build with the tools that are defining the future of applied AI.

To qualify for the Google track's prizes, your project must be one of the following:

1. Media Mastery: Projects that leverage Google's cutting-edge generative media models. This includes using Veo 3.1 for advanced video generation, Imagen 3 for high-fidelity creation, or Gemini 2.5 Flash Image (aka "nano-banana") for precise, prompt-based image editing and character consistency.

2. Agentic Intelligence: Projects that build autonomous agents capable of reasoning, planning, and executing tasks. These should be built using Google's Agent Development Kit (ADK) and can be deployed using the Vertex AI Agent Engine for production-grade scalability and memory management.

3. Most Impactful: Projects that demonstrate clear real-world utility and scalability. This award recognizes solutions with practical deployment potential—whether in consumer products, enterprise workflows, or industry systems—showing the ability to meaningfully shift how something is done today.

Overall Prize - Pixel Bud Pros + Exclusive Swag Bundle
Beginner Prize - Exclusive Swag Bundle

The Next-Gen Game Flow challenge invites teams to re-imagine how fans interact with live sports by using data and intelligent systems. Participants will build tools, features, or experiences that enhance real-time sports engagement—whether through predictive insights, personalized recommendations, interactive visualizations, or new second-screen interfaces.

1st Prize - $2,000 split between team!

Challenge participants must onboard to Microsoft for Startups platform, utilize MFS tools in their projects, and have a viable startup business model that they plan to continue working on post-AI ATL.

1st Prize - $25,000 credits, Microsoft for Startups benefits (VSCode Enterprise, Github Enterprise, LinkedIn Recruiters + Sale Navigator) +
Exclusive Merch!

2x Honorable Mentions - Exclusive Merch!

Go beyond the dataset. This track challenges you to build the vital link between the physical world and artificial intelligence. We're looking for pioneers who are collecting, processing, or labeling data in truly novel ways to unlock the next generation of AI.

This track is for projects that tackle the hard problems of data. How do we teach models about new modalities? How do we capture the complexities of human interaction and spatial environments? We are placing a **big emphasis on spatial planning, getting ai to understand the world around it in novel ways, and innovative data collection via current mobile devices, wearables, ai glasses,** and other novel sensors.

This track is sponsored personally by Matt Steele, driven by his curiosity at the intersection of AI, wearables, and spatial data. If your project is building a new way for AI to see, sense, or interact with the world, this is your track.

To qualify for this track, your project must demonstrate one of the following:

1. Novel Data Collection: This track recognizes projects that collect novel types of training data required for AI models to learn a new modality (e.g., spatial, haptic, biometric, or environmental data).

2. Innovative Processing & Labeling: This track celebrates projects that can effectively process and label new modalities of data that are not generally incorporated in LLMs today, with a special focus on human movement and interaction.

3. The Human-Data Interface: This track highlights projects that use wearables, robotics, or other sensors to create a new, high-fidelity feedback loop between human action and AI understanding, enabling new possibilities in spatial planning and interaction.

1st Prize - $1k split between team

As Al systems move from experimental demos to mission-critical enterprise workflows, reliability has become the defining challenge. In this track, participants will explore how to design, build, and evaluate **Al systems that organizations can actually trust**: models and agents that are robust, explainable, compliant, and production-ready.

Teams are invited to tackle problems that make Al work in the real world: monitoring model drift, building guardrails for LLMs, detecting hallucinations, ensuring data privacy, enforcing safety policies, or improving auditability and human-in-the-loop feedback. Projects might range from reliability infrastructure (evaluation frameworks, red-team tools, observability dashboards) to applied systems (Al copilots with verifiable reasoning, domain-specific trust layers, or compliance-aware workflows).

The goal: make Al enterprise-grade—reliable, repeatable, and responsible.

Who should join: builders who care as much about trust as performance—ML engineers, data scientists, reliability researchers, and enterprise developers eager to push AI from prototype to production.

1st Prize - Winners get to pitch to a Drive Capital partner for up to a $500k investment!

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!

Prize: SenseCap Card Trackers

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?

Prize: Google Swag Kits

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 portable screens for you and your team!

Prize: Portable Monitor Screens

Play with industry-leading LLMs on a single account using the Snowflake APIs. Adding AI capabilities into your application can be as simple as a single CURL command to Snowflake’s REST API.

Build customized applications, RAG powered chat bots, or embed AI-powered features into your app in half the time with half the hassle. Get started for free with a special, student 120-day Snowflake trial and check out this repository for an example of the Snowflake REST API in action.

Prize: Arduino Tiny ML Kits

Deploy natural, human-sounding audio with ElevenLabs. Create realistic, dynamic, and emotionally expressive voices for any project, from interactive AI companions to narrated stories and voice-enabled apps. ElevenLabs will empower you to build rich, immersive experiences without the need for actors or complex audio production, using simply the power of AI.

Integrate fully autonomous audio experiences into your hack with ElevenLabs and give your project a voice, along with giving your team the chance to win some wireless earbuds!

Prize: Beats Wireless Earbuds

MongoDB Atlas takes the leading modern database and makes it accessible in the cloud! Get started with a $50 credit for students or sign up for the Atlas free forever tier (no credit card required). Along with a suite of services and functionalities, you'll have everything you need to manage all of your data, and you can get a headstart with free resources from MongoDB University! Build a hack using MongoDB Atlas for a chance to win a M5GO IoT Starter Kit for you and each member of your team.

Prize: M5GO IoT Starter Kits

Make your Team's Achievements timeless: Win a .Tech Domain Name for up to 10 years to Showcase and Expand Your Project, Plus Blue Snowball Mics for Effortless Collaboration on Zoom, empowering you to build even more cool things together!

Prize: HyperX desktop Microphone & your winning .Tech Domain Name for up to 10 years!