About the challenge

The five areas of focus for this hackathon are:

  1. Biology & Physical Health - Make healthcare more accessible or help people manage physical health

  2. Neuroscience & Mental Health - Expand access to mental health support and understanding

  3. Economic Empowerment & Education - Remove barriers to learning and opportunity

  4. Governance & Collaboration - Help people participate in democracy or work together better

  5. Creative Flourishing - Amplify human creativity and help people find meaning

Your projects should demonstrate how AI could genuinely contribute to humans flourishing while wrestling with the hard ethical questions. We want to see your thinking as much as your code.

Get started

Make sure you have access to Claude Code, here we have a few options

1. The Claude Code CLI (command line tool, runs in your terminal!)

2. Claude Code web

3. The Claude Code VS Code extension

Requirements

What to Build

We do not expect a fully working app, instead, we value creativity and insight, you just need to code up a prototype to showcase your idea. It can be a web app, a command line tool, or anything that you can code!

What to Submit

1. The link to your GitHub repository

2. An on-site presentation

Hackathon Sponsors

Prizes

5 non-cash prizes
Biology & Physical Health
1 winner

$300 Claude API credits for the whole team

Neuroscience & Mental Health
1 winner

$300 Claude API credits for the whole team

Economic Empowerment & Education
1 winner

$300 Claude API credits for the whole team

Governance & Collaboration
1 winner

$300 Claude API credits for the whole team

Creative Flourishing
1 winner

$300 Claude API credits for the whole team

Devpost Achievements

Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:

Judges

Timothy Fernando
Trinity College Dublin

Zicheng Liang
Trinity College Dublin

Adam Bandyk
Trinity College Dublin

Kevin Collins

Kevin Collins
Echofold

Judging Criteria

  • Impact Potential
    Is this a real problem? Who does it affect and why does it matter? Does the solution make sense?
  • Technical Execution
    Does the core functionality work? Does it demonstrate the idea effectively?
  • Ethical Alignment
    Did the team think seriously about potential harms? Does this empower people rather than replace them?
  • Presentation
    Can the team clearly explain what they built, why they built it, and what they'd do next?

Questions? Email the hackathon manager

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