Welcome to GLITCHATHON - the hackathon where bugs are features and AI is your superpower.
you and your team will build an AI-powered project that solves a real problem for students, campuses, or communities. No prior hackathon experience needed. If you can think of an idea and want to ship it, you belong here.
WHAT IS GLITCHATHON?
GLITCHATHON is a The theme is Build with AI. You can use any AI approach: LLMs, computer vision, speech, recommendation systems, classical ML, or anything creative in between.
WHO CAN JOIN?
Students from any college or university. Teams of 1 to 4 members. Beginners are welcome.
PROBLEM STATEMENTS (pick one or bring your own idea)
1. Semester Survival Copilot
Build an AI assistant that turns a student's syllabus and exam dates into a realistic weekly study plan. It should adapt when the student falls behind, flag burnout risk, and turn lecture notes into flashcards and quizzes.
2. Glitch Detective
Build an AI that explains why code breaks, not just how to fix it. A student pastes an error and gets a plain-English walkthrough, the root cause, and a short practice exercise on the same type of bug.
3. Local Language Voice Tutor
Build a voice-first learning tool for regional languages. A student asks a question in Hindi, Gujarati, Tamil, or another language and gets a simple spoken answer in the same language.
4. Campus Lost-and-Found Matcher
Build a tool where students upload a photo or description of a lost item, and a vision model matches it against found-item posts and alerts the owner. Bonus: extend it to campus issue reporting (broken lights, Wi-Fi dead zones).
5. Fake-or-Real Checker
Build a browser extension or app that checks internship offers, scholarship links, and viral forwards for scam patterns, then gives a trust score with clear reasons.
6. Open Track
Got your own AI idea? Build it. Judges love original thinking.
SCHEDULE (all times IST)
- [DATE, TIME] - Registration closes
- [DATE, TIME] - Opening ceremony and problem statements walkthrough
- [DATE, TIME] - Hacking begins
- [DATE, TIME] - Mentor check-in
- [DATE, TIME] - Submission deadline
- [DATE, TIME] - Final demos and judging
- [DATE, TIME] - Winners announced
WHAT YOU GET
- Prizes for the top teams (see the Prizes tab)
- Certificates for every participant who submits a project
- Mentor support during the event
- A project you can put on your resume and GitHub
Questions? Email us at the contact address on this page. See you at GLITCHATHON.
Requirements
To be eligible for judging, your Devpost submission must include ALL of the following:
1. Project title and a short tagline.
2. Project description covering:
- The problem you are solving and who it helps
- How your solution works
- How you used AI (which models, APIs, or techniques)
- Challenges you faced and what you learned
3. A working demo: either a live link or a demo video.
4. A demo video of 3 minutes or less (YouTube or Vimeo link, embedding enabled) showing the project in action.
5. A public GitHub repository link with your source code and a README that explains how to run the project.
6. List of tools, languages, frameworks, and APIs used ("Built With" section on Devpost).
7. At least 2 screenshots or images of your project.
Optional but recommended: a short slide deck, architecture diagram, and a list of future improvements.
All code must be written during the hackathon period. You may use open-source libraries, public APIs, and pre-trained AI models, but you must clearly say what you used.
Prizes
One winner
Devpost Achievements
Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:
Judges
Siddharth purohit
Student
Judging Criteria
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Use of ai
Proper use of ai is required
Questions? Email the hackathon manager
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