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PS: all the prizes are also detailed here: Prizes & Merch

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Required: Pick General or Beginner Track

You can choose to compete in either the General or Beginner Track

IMPORTANT: If you would like to submit to another track, you must compete in either the General or Beginner track. There is no limit in additional tracks you can select.

🔨 General

Ready to put your programming skills to the test? Solve problems in society today, create technology that will improve our daily lives, and compete against some of the best hackers in the UNC area.

Prizes:

1st Place (choose one):

2nd Place:

3rd Place:

✏️ Beginner

Don’t have a lot of coding experience? No problem! Our beginner track allows inexperienced hackers to have the opportunity to compete in an easy-going environment. Attend workshops, meet new people, and create your first hack!

Requirements:

Prizes:

1st Place (choose one):

2nd Place:

3rd Place:

Additionally, you can also choose any of these other tracks for your hack to compete in!

Pick more Tracks!

🫧 Frutiger Aero Tech

Frutiger Aero is the glossy, optimistic design style of the mid-2000s to early 2010s, full of glassy buttons, bubbles, blue skies, lush greenery, and the belief that technology and nature could thrive together. The Frutiger Aero Track challenges you to bring that utopian vision back to life by building projects that blend its signature aesthetic with real sustainability and nature-focused ideas. Whether you're designing an eco-tracker with shimmering Vista-style UI, visualizing ocean or air-quality data through bubbly skeuomorphic interfaces, or creating tools that help people reconnect with the outdoors, this is your chance to make a greener future look as bright as we once imagined it.

Clear skies, clean code. Let's build the future we were promised!