DSH Hacks V2 is a global student competition open to students aged 13+ hosted collaboratively by three youth-led organizations: DeltaForge Hacks, NXT Horizon, and STEMise.

Theme: AI x Healthcare

This event brings together young innovators from around the world to transform bold ideas into technical products that address the health challenges facing our world today.

Participants will work individually or in teams to identify a real-world healthcare problem and design and develop a meaningful technical solution. Projects may range from diagnostic tools tackling global disease burdens, to patient-care platforms improving access and outcomes, to AI-powered systems reimagining how we detect, treat, and manage illness. Creativity, feasibility, technical depth, clinical insight, and real-world impact will be central to evaluation.

The theme of this competition is to build technical solutions that solve pressing healthcare problems. These solutions can be an app, a website, a simulation, a system, or an algorithm.

Participants are encouraged to use AI to help them build a meaningful solution and to lower the technical barrier that poses challenges for beginners with ambitious project ideas.

Requirements

Submission Requirements 

Project: Can be a website, app, or other coding prototypes that have user interaction capabilities. Hardware components are allowed if there is a coding component present along with them.

Demo Video: Video explaining the purpose of the project, showcasing project features, and demonstrating how users interact with the prototype.

One Page Project Description in PDF format: A page describing the project purpose and key features.

Github Repository / Code PDF: PDF document showcasing all code developed towards the creation of the project.

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Prizes

1 non-cash prize
Prize Pool for Winners
1 winner

$100 in cash

$100 in AoPS giftcard

Devpost Achievements

Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:

Judges

DSH Hacks

DSH Hacks

Sunil Divvela

Sunil Divvela
Worldwide Senior Solutions Architect

Alina Olefirenko

Alina Olefirenko
CTO

Rajesh Kumar

Rajesh Kumar
Principal Enterprise Architect | MuleSoft Ambassador | Axonis Edge AI Ambassador

Sandeep Vattikuti

Sandeep Vattikuti
Principal Engineer – Cloud, Data & DevSecOps Architecture, Texas Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC)

Sourav Saha

Sourav Saha
Assistant Vice President , Senior Software Engineer, U.S. Bank

Aatish Kumar

Aatish Kumar
Founding Engineer, StyleFrame AI

Anudeep Bonagiri

Anudeep Bonagiri
Co-Founder & CEO at Cruze

Aishwarya Nair

Aishwarya Nair
Senior Data Engineer

Bhargav K Korrapati

Bhargav K Korrapati
Sr. Software Engineer

Ratna Kumar Bonagiri

Ratna Kumar Bonagiri
Staff Software Engineer

Himanshu Pandey

Himanshu Pandey
Senior Software Engineer

Nandish Nanjappa

Nandish Nanjappa
Staff Software Engineer at Attentive Mobile

Ankur Bhatnagar

Ankur Bhatnagar
Enterprise Integration & API Architect

Omer Dogan

Omer Dogan
CEO & Managing Director at Mono Apps

Judging Criteria

  • Idea
    Did the proposal address the problem statement and theme? Was the idea innovative? How much potential impact could this proposal have if deployed to the public?
  • Implementation
    Does the solution work? Did the team achieve everything they wanted? How technically challenging/impressive was the implementation?
  • Design
    Did the team put thought into the user experience? How well designed is the interface?
  • Presentation
    Does the presentation clearly define and address the problem statement?

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