About the challenge
The 2030 AI Challenge invites students to design and build an interactive application powered by artificial intelligence that tackles meaningful, real world problems. Your code can be part of the solution.
Innovation. Intelligence. Infinite possibilities.
This hackathon introduces AI driven development and hackathon participation, giving students practical skills in problem solving, system design, and building intelligent applications; preparing them for more advanced, prestigious competitions.
We are excited to partner with Featherless.ai, who are supporting the competition by providing Inference Sponsorship (worth $1000+). Through this partnership, all participants will receive one month of inference access, enabling them to build, test, and deploy AI powered features in their projects. Please look at our updates page for instructions to access the API.
Note: As this competition encourages exploration, creativity, and technical growth, participants are strongly encouraged to begin developing their projects as early as possible. Your application does not need to be built exclusively during the hackathon period; starting early allows for deeper refinement, stronger ideas, and higher quality solutions.
Dates:
- March 8 at 2 pm (GMT+8): Hackathon Introduction Briefing + Submissions Open
- March 29 at 9 pm (GMT+8): Submissions close
- April 8 at 2 pm (GMT+8): Results released
Requirements
What to Build:
- Interactive application with a group or individually, integrated with a degree of AI
- Must be related and address one or more of the UN SDGs
- No Poverty | Zero Hunger | Good Health and Well being | Quality Education | Gender Equality | Clean Water and Sanitation | Affordable and Clean Energy | Decent Work and Economic Growth | Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure | Reduced Inequalities | Sustainable Cities and Communities | Responsible Consumptions and Production | Climate Action | Life Below Water | Life of Land | Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions | Partnerships for the Goals
What to Submit:
- YouTube link for the 2 minute presentation video featuring an overview of your solution
- Problem Statement
- What real world problem are you solving?
- Which UN Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) does it address?
- Your Solution
- What is your idea or tool?
- How does it use AI?
- Impact
- How will your solution help the people or the planet?
- Why is it meaningful by 2030?
- Problem Statement
- Technical Report
- Title Page
- Project Name
- Team name/members
- UN SGD ur project addresses
- Abstract (1 paragraph)
- Short summary of the problem, solution, and impact
- Introduction
- What is the problem?
- Why is it important?
- What UN SGD target are you trying to achieve?
- Background Research
- What research did you do?
- What existing tools or data did you explore?
- Solution Description:
- Explain your idea clearly
- What technologies and algorithms did you use?
- How does AI help you solve your problem?
- Design & Implementation
- Architecture or system design
- What code, models, or datasets did you use?
- Screenshots, diagrams
- Include the full file to your code
- Conclusion
- Wrap up your key points
- References
- Cite articles, tools, datasets, frameworks, etc...
- Title Page
Prizes
1st place
In addition to winning cash, the winner will also receive Featherless credits worth $300
2nd place
In addition to winning cash, the winner will also receive Featherless credits worth $150
3rd place
In addition to winning cash, the winner will also receive Featherless credits worth $75
Most creative
A certificate given to the team/individual with the most creative project
Most impactful
A certificate given to the team/individual with the most impactful project
Devpost Achievements
Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:
Judges
Ridhima Garodia
Camelia Chew
Emily Xu
Myra Dhawan
Kokoro Minami
Judging Criteria
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Creativity and Impact
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Presentation
Questions? Email the hackathon manager
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