Prize breakdown

First Place Overall

Each member of the winning team will receive a set of Airpods Max 2

Non-cash

Second Place Overall

Each member of the winning team will receive an Apple Watch SE

Non-cash

Third Place Overall

Each member of the winning team will receive a set of Airpods Generation 5

Non-cash

Regeneron Healthcare: Reinvent Clinical Trials & Drug Development

First place team - Fitbit Inspire Runner-up team - Fitbit Air Honorable mention (2 teams) - $50 Visa gift card

Non-cash4 winners

ASUS Sustainability: Save the Earth

First place team - ASUS motherboard Second place team - ASUS ZenScreen MB169CK-P portable monitor Third place team - ROG (Republic of Gamers) keyboard

Non-cash

ASUS Content Challenge

Calling all content creators, vloggers, and LinkedIn users! We would love to get an inside scoop on your experience throughout this hackathon. Create and share social media content about your experience building for the ASUS “Save the Earth” Sustainability Track on Instagram, TikTok, LinkedIn, or YouTube for a chance to: Win an exciting prize! (Prize to be announced at Opening Ceremony) Have your content reposted by official ASUS social media accounts

Non-cash

Digital Trust: Fintech and Cybersecurity

Each member of the winning team will receive a Brick! (getbrick.com/)

Non-cash

Hardware for Good

Each member of the winning team will receive a drone!

Non-cash

Best Use of Daytona

Win 5000 USD in Daytona credits!

Non-cash

Build a Messaging Agent with Photon 2.0

Track Winner: $400 cash + $300 Photon credits + fast-track to the final interview round Runner-Up: $200 cash + $100 Photon credits Best Voice Agent: $300 cash + $100 Photon credits, for the best voice agent on a Photon phone number

Non-cash3 winners

SpaceXAI Make it Legendary

Anyone who submits to our challenge will be entered into a raffle for a Cursor Owala water bottle. Every member of the winning team will receive a branded Cursor mechanical keyboard.

Non-cash

Best Data-Driven Agent Built on Chalk

$1500+ in Apple Gift Cards for the winning team!

Non-cash

Best Use of Nessie

$300 gift cards from giftogram for each member of the winning team

Non-cash

Best Use of Factory Droid SDK

Droid is the coding agent behind Factory's CLI, desktop app, and web platform. With the Droid SDK, it can run inside your own projects. Droid plans the steps, uses tools, edits files, and runs commands. You decide when it runs, what it can access, and what it builds. So what will your Droid do this weekend? Show us the most creative, useful, or ambitious thing you can build with it. Get started in TypeScript (npm install @factory/droid-sdk) or Python (pip install droid-sdk) with the docs at docs.factory.ai.

Non-cash

About

Welcome aboard HackHarvard 2026: Hack to the Moon! 🚀 From October 16 to 18, hackers from all over will gather at Harvard’s David Rubenstein Treehouse for an exciting mission. This year’s theme is a challenge to shoot for the stars. Chase the innovation that feels a little too ambitious, try the technology you’ve never touched, and let your creativity take you somewhere out of this world. Whether this is your first hackathon or your fiftieth, you’ll have workshops, mentors, sponsors, and a crew of fellow hackers to help you launch your new ideas. We can’t wait to see how far you go!

Requirements

All projects must be submitted on Devpost by 8 AM ET on Sunday, October 18. No late submissions will be accepted. Submissions open after the Opening Ceremony and are accepted only from teams competing in person.

Each submission must include a link to a public GitHub repository created between October 16 and 18. You may also include a demo video of up to 3 minutes. It's optional but recommended, and a strong video clearly explains the problem your project solves and walks through how it works. Leave time to upload it to YouTube or another platform before the deadline.

When you submit, select every track, sponsor challenge, and opt-in prize you want to be considered for. Projects that don't opt in won't be eligible for those prizes.

Every team must also present a live demo during judging on Sunday morning, from 9 AM to 12 PM. Judges will visit your team to hear a 3-minute presentation and ask questions. Projects are judged on four equally weighted criteria: Innovation, Creativity & Impact; Technical Complexity; Functionality & Usability; and Teamwork, Collaboration & Learning.

HackHarvard2026: Hack to the Moon

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