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About the Challenge
Hackonomics™ 2026 allows individuals passionate about finance, economics, and computer science in our community to fuse the aforementioned principles via projects with the potential to have a positive impact on our community.
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Judge Application
View Hackonomics 2025 & Hackonomics 2024
Current Prize Pool Value: $10.5K USD
Getting Started
Brainstorm project ideas, approaches to outreach, and potential impact. Additionally, join the discord server for more details on the event.
Requirements
What to Build
Create an innovative project, product, business, or idea that would help spread awareness about financial literacy and economics in the community.
This Hackathon is open-ended and beginner-friendly hackathon and allows submissions covering the wide range of economic or financial topics. We also allow submissions in all mediums and different stages of development.
What to Submit
A YouTube video or Google Drive video describing your project (1-2 Minutes Recommended, 5 Minutes Maximum) and a document of the source program (any medium). Designs, prototypes, and submissions from Hackonomics 2025 & 2024 are permitted. See criteria for more information.
Prizes
First Place
Most effective in satisfying criteria of all submitted projects.
Second Place
Second most effective in satisfying criteria of all submitted projects.
Third Place
Third most effective in satisfying criteria of all submitted projects.
Design Award
Incorporates a sleek, user-friendly, and polished design, maximizing accessibility of project content. (May be a Figma-based project or prototype.) Top two in presentation category.
Technical Award
Projects that demonstrate the best application by using data and integration to create a comprehensive app that covers all aspects of the project's task. Top two projects in the technical execution category.
Devpost Achievements
Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:
Judges
Atharv Patil
Hackathon operations & logistics manager
Eytan Grumberg
Hackathon outreach & membership manager
Pankaj Verma
Senior Data Scientist at Shell
Dylan Lee
Software Engineer at Goldman Sachs
Sreeja Apparaju
Machine Engineer at Snapchat
Shreyas Sharma
Senior Software Developer at American Crystal Sugar Company
Pearl Li
Founder of Read Bean
Bhanuprakash Madupati
Senior Software Engineer at Minnesota DOC
Igor Piatkov
Software Engineer & Founder of 1Certify
Tony Chang
Software Engineer at Databricks
Mukeshkumar Khaniya
Senior Software Engineer at Apple
Pulkit Goel
Staff Software Engineer at Activision Blizzard(Microsoft)
Nikita Baryshev
Senior Software Developer at Check Point Cyber Security
Saurabh Aggarwal
Principal Data Scientist at Autodesk
Rajesh Sura
Head of Engineering and Analytics at Amazon
Prashanthi Matam
Full Stack Engineer/Senior Software Engineer
Nimit Patel
Principle Data Scientist at McKinsey & Company
Rishab Bansal
Senior Software Developer at Tesla
Deepak Giri
Executive Director at Wells Fargo
Bhoomi Patel
Software Engineer at Meta
Subhash Chandra Bose Naripeddy
Technical Lead, Engineer at Meta
Albert Lie
Co-founder of SF VC-backed AI startup/Founding Engineer and Tech Lead
Neville Mehta
Staff Engineer at Samsung Electronics America
Danil Matrosov
Senior Software Developer at Sberbank
Bedil Karimov
Senior Systems Engineer at EPAM Systems
Shishir Tewari
Senior Manager, Data Engineering at Procore
Sriharsha Makineni
Senior Business Engineer at Meta
Brij Mohan
Vice President, Principal Software Development at LPL Financial
Aarti Balana
Doctoral Researcher & Former Data Scientist at Virginia Tech
Suraj Devatha
Senior Software Engineer at Meta
Aniruddha Singh
Director, GTM Applications at CrowdStrike
Srinidhi Vaddy
Technical Operations Engineer at Stripe
Bartosz Gacek
Founder at Faradium.ai
Anusha Kovi
Business Intelligence Engineer at Amazon
Fenil Shah
Senior Software Engineer at Amazon
Kunal Ganorkar
Associate Director, Cloud Engineering at Omnicom Media Group
Sharan B. P. Murugesan
Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft
Ujjwal Gulecha
Technical Staff Member at Anthropic
Jaikumar Banthia
Software Development Manager at Amazon
Linda Dao
Product Manager at CTS Eventim
Saptadeep Debnath
Senior System Integration Engineer at Horizon Surgical Systems
Vijay K. Atla
Senior Software Engineer at Meta
Sriharsha A. Pushkala
Director, Fraud Analytics & Strategy at Atlanticus
Nehal Sangoi
Senior Technical Account Manager at AWS
Siva Kumar Mudiyanur
Senior Business Intelligence Engineer at Amazon
Rahul Chavan
Lead Product Manager at Venmo
Vasu Raj Jain
Senior Software Engineer at Amazon
Kishan Kumar
Lead Software Engineer at Chime
Patrick Blumenthal
Investment Manager at Ecosystem Ventures
Rajarshee Dhar
Technical Leader, Enterprise AI at Cisco
Basil Najjar
Head of Quantitative Development at Zimmer Partners
Arnav Modi
Software Engineer at Adobe
Ankita Bihani
Software Engineering Manager at Meta
Seon-Woo Lee
Member of Technical Staff at Stealth AI Startup
Krishna Chaitanya Balusu
Senior Software Engineer at Meta
Chandni Bhatia
Quantitative Modeling Lead at JP Morgan
Jyoti Yadav
Data Science Manager at Atlassian
Juan Belmont
Founder of Nerdmask
Hao Jia
CEO & CTO at SyMind
Goutham Vemula
Senior Software Engineer at Bank of America
Abhijeet Rajwade
Senior Customer AI Infrastructure Engineer at Google
Adit Gupta
Member of technical staff at Anthropic
Ganesh Harke
Vice President of Technology at Citibank
Arnav Jha
CEO of Loandock
Sanjay Mishra
Principal Software Engineer at Fidelity Investments
Judging Criteria
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Relevancy
How well does the project address the theme of economics and financial literacy while combining code? Does it also include an element of educating others on the topic? -
Technical Execution
How well is the project built? Does it demonstrate a high level of technical proficiency, scalability, and efficiency? Is the implementation technically sound? -
Presentation
How visually appealing and user-friendly is the project? Is the design intuitive, with a clear and attractive user interface, thoughtful color schemes, and a seamless user experience? -
Impact
What is the potential impact of the project? Could it have meaningful applications or scale beyond Hackonomics? Does it offer long-term value in terms of user benefit, business, or societal impact? -
Innovation
How unique or creative is the approach to solving the problem? Does the project push boundaries or introduce novel ideas or technologies?
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