In collaboration with Harvard Women in Computer Science (WiCS), Anthropic will be hosting an on-campus hackathon on the weekend of April 19-20. Participants will receive API credits to build breakthrough applications with Anthropic's state-of-the-art model Claude.

Requirements

Judging Criteria:

  • Impact: social impact, product scale, or impact in a particular field, e.g. AI safety

  • Creativity: how creative and unique is your project? did you bring any new perspectives to the table?

  • Design: quality of your project and attention to detail

  • Use of Claude: how did you leverage the special features of Claude and the Anthropic API?

Judging Process:

  • Participants will present their projects between 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM on Sunday, April 20, 2025

  • Participants should remain available for questions and/or callbacks after their presentations

  • Winner and runner-up teams will receive API credits to be split evenly among teammates

Hackathon Sponsors

Prizes

5 non-cash prizes
Best Impact
1 winner

$500 in API credits for team (total)

Best Creativity
1 winner

$500 in API credits for team (total)

Best Design
1 winner

$500 in API credits for team (total)

Best Use of Claude
1 winner

$500 in API credits for team (total)

Grand Prize
1 winner

Additional $500 in API credits for team (total), chosen from the category winners

Devpost Achievements

Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:

Judges

Maggie Vo

Maggie Vo

Rowan Wang

Rowan Wang

Erik Schluntz

Erik Schluntz

Judging Criteria

  • Judging Criteria
    Projects are judged on its impact, creativity, design, and use of the Claude API.

Questions? Email the hackathon manager

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