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.
Prizes
1st Place
Momen Credits ($2000)
Adaption Labs Credits ($1000)
Cleanshot X Licenses ($140)
CodeCrafters VIP Membership ($720)
Devswarm Pro ($72)
AoPS Giftcards ($50)
2nd Place
Momen Credits ($2000)
Adaption Labs Credits ($1000)
Cleanshot X Licenses ($140)
CodeCrafters VIP Membership ($360)
Devswarm Pro ($18)
AoPS Giftcards ($25)
3rd Place
Momen Credits ($2000)
Adaption Labs Credits ($1000)
Cleanshot X Licenses ($140)
CodeCrafters VIP Membership ($180)
Devswarm Pro ($18)
AoPS Giftcards ($25)
Tin Computer Growth Plan
Available to up to 100 eligible teams
$299 in Growth Plan credits per eligible team
⚠️ THIS IS NOT A CASH PRIZE. This award consists of sponsor-provided product credits, subscriptions, software licenses, domains, or other non-cash benefits and cannot be exchanged or redeemed for cash.
Best Research-Oriented Project (YRI)
A 50% Scholarship for YRI 1:1 Research Fellowship Program
Judges
DSH Hacks
Sunil Divvela
Worldwide Senior Solutions Architect
Alina Olefirenko
CTO
Rajesh Kumar
Principal Enterprise Architect | MuleSoft Ambassador | Axonis Edge AI Ambassador
Sandeep Vattikuti
Principal Engineer – Cloud, Data & DevSecOps Architecture, Texas Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC)
Sourav Saha
Assistant Vice President , Senior Software Engineer, U.S. Bank
Aatish Kumar
Founding Engineer, StyleFrame AI
Anudeep Bonagiri
Co-Founder & CEO at Cruze
Aishwarya Nair
Senior Data Engineer
Bhargav K Korrapati
Sr. Software Engineer
Ratna Kumar Bonagiri
Staff Software Engineer
Himanshu Pandey
Senior Software Engineer
Nandish Nanjappa
Staff Software Engineer at Attentive Mobile
Ankur Bhatnagar
Enterprise Integration & API Architect
Omer Dogan
CEO & Managing Director at Mono Apps
Bhagath Siddi
Senior Manager
Pratik Gupta
Senior Engineering Leader, Stripe
Sanjay Singh
Staff Software Engineer
Subham Kumar
Senior Software Engineer
Dulra Amolegbe
Co-founder / CEO
Akshay Talathi
Vice President of Software Engineering at Goldman Sachs
Krishna Kuruvella
Tech Lead/software engineer
Yeswant Kumar
AI & Supply Chain Solution Architect
Ravi Shanker Thadishetti
Senior Software Engineer
Santiago Orozco
Founding Engineer at Cubic (YC S25)
Yash Mundada
Former Software Engineer at Meta, HubSpot, and Amazon
Shreyans Lodha
Former Columbia Business School and D. E. Shaw
Jesmith Lopes
Principal Engineer, Application Support
Dhruv Sekhawat
Co-founder & CTO, Loandock
Oguzhan Karaca
Co-Founder/CEO at Derya (YC S26)
Bhagath Siddi
Senior Engineering Manager
Akhil Kumar Mengani
Senior Software Engineer at Meta
Nevasini Sasikumar
ML Researcher
Ayesha Andleeb
Section Leader @ Stanford University Code in Place
Igor Eduardo
Founder in Residence, Antler
Vinayak Vashishtha
Software Development Manager, AWS (Annapurna Labs)
Rahul Kumar
Co-founder and CTO of Alignbridge
Hamad Iqbal
Expert Project Manager at Mercor
Vishal Seelam
Founding Engineer at Zeph Technologies
Ujwal Vanjare
Software Engineer, BNSF Railway
Prabu Deivendran
Senior Technical Lead
Sharoon Babu
Lead AI Engineer at Gartner
Sunny Bakhda
Founding Engineer, HoneyHive
Maha Zainab
SLM Reliability Researcher / Software Engineer, Auburn University
Kumarappan Muthuraman
Founder @ Pebble Robotics
Alparslan Cetin
Computer Vision Researcher
Aryan Mahajan
Founder, Zoro
Yogen Ghodke
AI Solutions Engineer, Hexaware Technologies
Gokul Gurunathaswamy
Manager, Commercial Technology and Intelligence at IDeaS, A SAS Company.
Dhrumil Dutia
Senior Software Engineer at NetApp
Aditya Reddy
Senior Software Engineer, Northwestern Mutual
Anas Muhammad Abid Khan
Data Analyst
Vaibhav Jain
Staff Software Engineer at SoFi
Divya Chandana
Senior Software Developer @ Experian
Kyrylo Kovaleskyi
Lead Software Engineer at Lloyds Banking Group
Mirza Yasir Abdullah Baig
AI Engineer & Founder at Yasir Insights
Judging Criteria
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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?
Questions? Email the hackathon manager