What is Banana Hacks 2026?

Banana Hacks 2026 is the very first iteration of an Image AI hackathon for high schoolers and any college student enrolled in an institution. Our goal is to expose students of all backgrounds to the field of Image Artifical Intelligence Machine Learning and processing and inspire students to pursue computer science in their careers. Banana Hacks is a weekend-long invention competition where you come together with a team and build a software project that integrates Image Classification, Synthetic Generation and more (possibilities are endless) that and may or may not solve a scientific or social problem.

Interested in getting involved? Please visit https://www.bananahacks.tech to fill out one of the registration forms linked at the top of the page (we accept both devpost and website submissions)! Note that website submissions are much prefered!

Requirements

A Project Name
Team members listed
A ≤3 minute (3 minutes or less) YOUTUBE public video (time constraints for the video are STRICT), if you cannot upload a youtube video due to technical troubles or any other issue no matter what you try; please contact a organizer for an alternative.
A description of your project must be submitted to Devpost.
The description and the video should both cover and include your brainstorming, inspiration, design process, resources, and the final product, among other details.
A Github link to your source code is required for all projects. All projects must be created solely within the time period of Banana Hacks 2026.

Cross-submission is not allowed with other hackathons and teams may be disqualified if they are found violating these requirements.

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