About the challenge
Please see Discord for detailed track instructions
Requirements
What to Build
There are 3 tracks: Blue Sky, e184, and Science Corp.
What to Submit
All teams are required to submit their slides/video for a 3 min project presentation. Slides for a live presentation are strongly preferred. Teams are also required to submit their code as a Github repo.
Prizes
First Place- Blue Sky
Second Place- Blue Sky
First Place- e184
Second Place- e184
First Place- Science Corp
Second Place- Science Corp
Devpost Achievements
Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:
Judges
Emma Zhou
Science Corp
Vishnu Sasikumar
Science Corp
Terence Rabuzzi
Science Corp
Mo Eltaeb
Science Corp
Julia Scott
Santa Clara University
Abigail Holland
Go Go Gaia
Gail Gannon
Collider Lab
Phil Xie
Science Corp
Reuben Thomas
Tacit
Sofia Kozlova
e184
Dan Blinzinski
Openwater
David Moses
UCSF
David Paribello
Openwater
Dan Adams
Neuralink
Dipanshu Gandhi
Orbit
Matthew MacDougall
Neuralink
Jake Wilkins
Orbit
Judging Criteria
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Science- Bitrate
Your score is the average of their bit rates over the 60-second evaluation window. Each grader gets a brief familiarization period, then one scored run. This is a first-session evaluation—the game must be quickly learnable by a generally smart person. -
e184- Output Quality
text accuracy, ranking quality, or semantic output quality evaluation should match the target representation clearly -
e184- Robustness + absention
works under noise, motion, short sessions, or missing channels when relevant handles bad segments through confidence or abstention -
e184- Generalization
performance across subjects, sessions, conditions, or datasets when relevant not just one narrow train/test split -
e184- Practical usability
latency, responsiveness, calibration burden, or interaction loop handled clearly design reflects real deployment constraints when relevant -
e184- Clarity + reproducibility
clear output contract interpretable pipeline, justified tradeoffs, and understandable failure modes -
Blue Sky- Scalability / Commercial Viability
Clear path to market, identified customers, future milestones -
Blue Sky - Technical Innovation
Novel approaches, creative use of multimodal data, architectural insights -
Blue Sky- Scientific Rigour
Sound methodology, appropriate validation, reproducibility -
Blue Sky- Presentation Quality
Clear communication, compelling narrative, demo quality -
Blue Sky- Feasibility and Execution
Working prototype, realistic scope, code quality
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