GirlHacks Hackathon 2025

We are excited to announce our first hackathon event and invite every one of you to participate! Girlhacks hackathon will be a 1-day virtual event where you have a chance to showcase your creativity.   It does not matter if you are an engineer, sales representative, or marketer. In a hackathon, everyone is needed.  It also does not matter if you are a high schooler, college student, home maker or a professional.  Creativity is a habit and an attitude; entirely within your control.  So come join us and don't be left out of this exciting opportunity to unleash your creative genius.

Begin your hackathon journey today

Registration is in full swing currently.  Join our hackathon event.  We plan to create several networking and ideation opportunities between now and then.  Join us for our Workshops beginning with the first one on March 29th.  

Idea workshops

• Idea Workshop: March 29th 2025  - Event Completed.

• Integration with Gemini by Roya Kanadalan (Completed on June 9th 2025)

• Intro to Robotics by Onder Ondemir (Completed on June 16th 2025)

Hackathon Registration

• Hackathon registrations are now closed.  Registration ended on June 21st 2025.

Hackathon Dates 

• June 28th 2025 (9am to 5pm ET)

• Checkin starts on Hackathon starts at 8am and closes at 9am.

Location

• 1 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA

What is a Hackathon?

Hackathon is a fun and engaging way of creating something beautiful and unique rapidly.  Hacking/coding is a great way to bringing your ideas into existence.  Hackathons just provide the right format to expedite that creation.

A human mind only remembers short term events vividly.  If you get an idea today, don't expect to remember and be excited equally about it in a month from now.   Also we all have little motivation to create something that takes too long.   Hence, we invented Marathons: a foot race to cover the largest amount of miles within the shortest amount of time.  Hackathon = Hacking + Marathon.  In other words, Hackathon is a creation marathon.

Teams

Teams can be anywhere from 1 to 4 maximum members.  Teams must submit their ideas and work on the solution together.   And do joint presentations.  If you have not yet found your team mates, our first Ideathon event will be a great opportunity to connect and join hands with like-minded creators.

Locations

We encourage live participation by attending the event at 1 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA.  This event is hybrid but participating live has benefits of higher engagement with other participants and professional networking.  Online Participants are welcome as long as their presence is available on adhoc request via zoom anytime during the event.  All participants are expected to join the hackathon slack group we create.  Please stay tuned for information about how to join slack group.  In the mean time, you can reach out to us via mail. 

Judging Crieria

Innovation and Creativity

Is the idea novel and original and inventive or does the project include a creative solution?  

Impact and Usefulness

Does the project have the potential to make a real-world difference and influence real change?

Complexity and Completeness

Does the project utilize cutting edge technology and required significant effort to execute?  How complete was the executed solution?

Presentation

Does the presentation deliver a clear message about uniqueness of idea, and value?

P.S:  Judges reserve the right to decide on all of the above criteria.  No contests are allowed.  

Hackathon Rules

Team size
Team sizes cannot be greater than 4.

Hackathon day checkins
The Hackathon day format and checkin times are strictly followed.  Every team is expected to check-in at 9am ET on June 28th.  This includes participants from all time zones.  Participants are expected to appear with their cameras on.  An official state or country issued photo ID must be presented during check-in.  High school students may use the Photo ID issued from their schools.    After the initial checkin, there will be a check-in at 11am ET for idea and design approach.  Both these check-ins are mandatory.

Participants are expected to be present on zoom with cameras on during check-ins.

Hackathon submissions
Submissions must include a power point deck presenting the idea and implementation details.  A demo can be included as part of the presentation.  Participants are expected to be present for the presentation.  If you cannot be present, please send us a video. This is only applicable to participants in different time zones from US.  Submissions end at 3.45pm ET on Saturday June 28th.  No exceptions allowed.  

Awards and Prizes
We do not allow contesting our choices of teams as winners.  

Number of projects per Team

Is restricted to 1.

P.S:  Judges reserve the right to decide on all of the above criteria.  No contests are allowed.    

Hackathon day schedule

Please find details at this link.

Judges

• Jagathi Gururajan, Founder, FintechWomen USA

• Erica Kangas, Head of Engineering, Scroobius

• Faranak Jahedi, Data Scientist

Onder Ondemir, Founder and President, Ubiros Inc. 

Volunteers and Sponsors

If you want to volunteer for this event or any other event for Girlhacks or want to sponsor an event, please reach out to us @ contact us .  

LinkedIn Event

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