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The 'AI for Impact' hackathon challenges participants to create an AI-powered application addressing real-world issues in sustainability, accessibility, education, or mental health using open-source AI APIs. Teams of 2 to 4 members have 7 hours to submit their code, video, and documentation, with judging based on innovation, impact, technical execution, user experience, and presentation. Participants must be familiar with programming, RESTful APIs, and version control tools like Git and GitHub.

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Hackathon AIForImpact-1

The 'AI for Impact' hackathon challenges participants to create an AI-powered application addressing real-world issues in sustainability, accessibility, education, or mental health using open-source AI APIs. Teams of 2 to 4 members have 7 hours to submit their code, video, and documentation, with judging based on innovation, impact, technical execution, user experience, and presentation. Participants must be familiar with programming, RESTful APIs, and version control tools like Git and GitHub.

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●◎ Hackathon Challenge: "AI for Impact"

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Build an AI-powered application that solves a real-world problem in one of the following
domains:

 Sustainability (e.g., waste reduction, energy efficiency)

 Accessibility (e.g., tools for people with disabilities)

 Education (e.g., personalized learning)

 Mental Health (e.g., mood tracking, support bots)

Your app must use at least one open-source AI API to demonstrate intelligent behavior
such as natural language understanding, image recognition, or predictive analytics.

’ Time Limit
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 Total Duration: 7 hours

 Start to Finish: Teams must submit their final code, video, and documentation
before the 7-hour mark. Late submissions will not be judged.

+ Team Size

 Minimum: 2 members

 Maximum: 4 members

 Solo participation is not allowed to encourage collaboration and division of


responsibilities.

’ Prerequisites s Tools
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Participants should be familiar with:

 Basic programming in Python, JavaScript, or TypeScript

 RESTful APIs and JSON

 Git and GitHub for version control


Recommended open-source AI APIs:

API Description Link

Hugging Face Pretrained models for https://huggingface.co


Transformers NLP tasks

OpenAI Whisper Speech-to-text https://huggingface.co/openai/whisper


(via Hugging transcription
Face)

Replicate Run ML models in the https://replicate.com


cloud via API

Cohere NLP APIs for https://cohere.com


classification,
generation, and
embeddings

Clarifai Computer vision and https://www.clarifai.com


NLP models

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^ Judging Criteria

Category Description Points

Innovation Creativity and originality of the idea 20

Impact Relevance and potential to solve a real-world 20


problem

Technical Code quality, use of AI APIs, and functionality 20


Execution
Category Description Points

User Experience UI/UX design and ease of use 15

Presentation Clarity and completeness of the video demo and 25


README

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1. GitHub Repository with:

 Source code

 README.md including:

 Problem statement

 Solution overview

 API(s) used

 Setup instructions

 Screenshots (if applicable)

2. Demo Video (max 3 minutes):

 Explain the problem and your solution

 Show the app in action

 Highlight how AI is used

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