Mechanical Keyboard ||

Your hackathon A-team just got two new members. Build your hackathon project with Cursor and Grok Bot this weekend to qualify for the SpaceXSI raffle. Every member on the winning team walks away with a custom-branded Cursor mechanical keyboard.

Here’s how you qualify:

Use Cursor as your core AI coding agent
Integrate a Grok Bot automation into your workflow
In your project description, describe how you use both Cursor and Grok Bot.
Submit your project and be sure to opt-in to the Make it Legendary with SpaceXSI raffle.

MLH Swag Kits ||

It’s time to push the boundaries of what’s possible with AI using Google Gemini. Check out the Gemini API to build AI-powered apps that make your friends say WHOA. So, what can Gemini do for your hackathon project?

Understand language like a human and build a chatbot that gives personalized advice
Analyze info like a supercomputer and create an app that summarizes complex research papers
Generate creative content like code, scripts, music, and more
Think of the possibilities… what will you build with the Google Gemini API this weekend?

Unruggable Hardware Wallets ||

The world of development is evolving fast and Solana is leading the charge with a network built to handle all of your infrastructure needs. Forget high fees and slow confirmations, it’s time to build applications that are fast, efficient, and scalable.

Harness Solana’s core advantages like blazing fast execution and near-zero transaction costs to make your hackathon ideas become real world projects. With Solana, the possibilities are endless.

Create a game, social app, or consumer product that relies on instant, high-frequency transactions.
Design a sophisticated trading, lending, or decentralized exchange (DEX).
Build a prototype for supply chain, identity, or payments that can handle massive, real-world volume.
Show us how you can innovate with Solana for a chance to win Unruggable Hardware Wallets for you and each member of your team!

Stream Deck Mini ||

Building high-performance apps under hackathon deadlines shouldn't mean spending half your weekend configuring complex databases or learning obscure query languages. Tiger Data extends PostgreSQL to give student developers an ultra-fast foundation for real-time data, time-series metrics, and complex analytics.

Why build with Tiger Data this weekend?

Standard SQL Power: Query massive datasets instantly using the SQL you already know, with no complex NoSQL aggregation pipelines required.

Unified Data Stack: Store relational user profiles and high-frequency metric streams side-by-side in a single database.

Instant Dashboards: Serve lag-free, real-time frontend charts using pre-computed Continuous Aggregates.

90%+ Data Compression: Store millions of events on free-tier cloud instances without running out of disk space.

Whether you’re building real-time IoT monitoring, AI-driven analytics dashboards, or financial prediction engines, show us how Tiger Data powers your project. The team that demonstrates the most innovative, impactful, and performance-driven use of Tiger Data will take home some great prizes!

Assorted Prizes ||

Vultr empowers hackers to bring their high-performance projects to life instantly; providing everything from the speed of one-click deployment and scalable cloud compute, to specialized Vultr Cloud GPUs that can power AI-driven applications. We want you to push the limits of what can be built when infrastructure is no longer the bottleneck!

Sign up for a Vultr account today and claim your free cloud credits! Take your next hack to the cloud with Vultr for a chance to win some awesome prizes for you and your team!

Arduino Student Kit ||

Play with industry-leading LLMs on a single account using the Snowflake APIs. Adding AI capabilities into your application can be as simple as a single CURL command to Snowflake’s REST API.

Build customized applications, RAG powered chat bots, or embed AI-powered features into your app in half the time with half the hassle. Get started for free with a special, student 120-day Snowflake trial and check out this repository for an example of the Snowflake REST API in action.

Digital Gift Card ||

GoDaddy Registry is giving you everything you need to be the best hacker no matter where you are. Register your domain name with GoDaddy Registry for a chance to win some amazing prizes!

Nothing Ear 3 Earbuds

One prize available per team member (up to 4 team members)

Keychron K8 Mechanical Keyboard

One prize available per team member (up to 4 team members)

Snaptain S5C Elite Drone

One prize available per team member (up to 4 team members)

Fujifilm Camera

One prize available per team member (up to 4 team members)

1080p Mini Portable Projectors

One prize available per team member (up to 4 team members)

Touchtronix-sponsored sensors were delivered to the event. By using the SensX25 sensors in your project, you can enter this challenge.
Refer to the hacker handbook for a quick start guide and resources for this challenge.

This challenge rewards teams who use Notability to capture and document how their project came together.
Every hacker can redeem one free month of Notability Pro for the hackathon with the code MAKECU. Set it up before hack day so you are ready to go. Each member of the winning top 3 team receives one year of Notability Pro and exclusive Notability merch.

Students can sign in or create an account at buildwithtrace.com/hackathons and use code MAKECU-X-TRACE-26 to create or join their team.
Each member receives $400 in event credits once the team has at least two members. Teams receive one month of Workspaces access from team creation. The access page and QR code are included in the slides.
The winning team receives $4,000 in additional Trace credits for the team; a Trace summer internship interview opportunity for each team member; manufacturing of the winning PCB by Trace after the event; online recognition for the team and project.
Trace also plans to showcase participating teams’ projects online with their permission.