The finalists of StormHacks 2026!

Winners will receive: Sony WH CH720

The best solo project!

Winner receives: Philips 2000 series air fryer

The best game project!

Winner receives: 4 x ZSCMALLS portable monitor

The best hardware project!

Winner receives: 4 x WOLFBOX MF60 Compressed Air Duster

The best project by at least 50% first-time hackers!

Winner receives: JBL Go 4 speakers

The best project created by a majority (at least 60%) high schooler team!

Winner receives: Lego sets!!!

The best project dedicated to supporting medical technology!

Winner receives: Sony Mini Speaker

The best data science project related to sports!

Winner receives: 40,000mAh power bank

Wireless Earbuds
Deploy natural, human-sounding audio with ElevenLabs. Create realistic, dynamic, and emotionally expressive voices for any project, from interactive AI companions to narrated stories and voice-enabled apps. ElevenLabs will empower you to build rich, immersive experiences without the need for actors or complex audio production, using simply the power of AI.

Integrate fully autonomous audio experiences into your hack with ElevenLabs and give your project a voice, along with giving your team the chance to win some wireless earbuds!

MLH Swag Kits
It’s time to push the boundaries of what’s possible with AI using Google Gemini. Check out the Gemini API to build AI-powered apps that make your friends say WHOA. So, what can Gemini do for your hackathon project?

Understand language like a human and build a chatbot that gives personalized advice
Analyze info like a supercomputer and create an app that summarizes complex research papers
Generate creative content like code, scripts, music, and more
Think of the possibilities… what will you build with the Google Gemini API this weekend?

SenseCAP Card Tracker
The world of development is evolving fast and Solana is leading the charge with a network built to handle all of your infrastructure needs. Forget high fees and slow confirmations, it’s time to build applications that are fast, efficient, and scalable.

Harness Solana’s core advantages like blazing fast execution and near-zero transaction costs to make your hackathon ideas become real world projects. With Solana, the possibilities are endless.

Create a game, social app, or consumer product that relies on instant, high-frequency transactions.
Design a sophisticated trading, lending, or decentralized exchange (DEX).
Build a prototype for supply chain, identity, or payments that can handle massive, real-world volume.
Show us how you can innovate with Solana for a chance to win some cool prizes for you and each member of your team!

Stream Deck Mini
Building high-performance apps under hackathon deadlines shouldn't mean spending half your weekend configuring complex databases or learning obscure query languages. Tiger Data extends PostgreSQL to give student developers an ultra-fast foundation for real-time data, time-series metrics, and complex analytics.

Why build with Tiger Data this weekend?

Standard SQL Power: Query massive datasets instantly using the SQL you already know, with no complex NoSQL aggregation pipelines required.

Unified Data Stack: Store relational user profiles and high-frequency metric streams side-by-side in a single database.

Instant Dashboards: Serve lag-free, real-time frontend charts using pre-computed Continuous Aggregates.

90%+ Data Compression: Store millions of events on free-tier cloud instances without running out of disk space.

Whether you’re building real-time IoT monitoring, AI-driven analytics dashboards, or financial prediction engines, show us how Tiger Data powers your project. The team that demonstrates the most innovative, impactful, and performance-driven use of Tiger Data will take home some great prizes!

Arduino Student Kit
Play with industry-leading LLMs on a single account using the Snowflake APIs. Adding AI capabilities into your application can be as simple as a single CURL command to Snowflake’s REST API.

Build customized applications, RAG powered chat bots, or embed AI-powered features into your app in half the time with half the hassle. Get started for free with a special, student 120-day Snowflake trial and check out this repository for an example of the Snowflake REST API in action.

Desktop Microphone & a Free .Tech Domain Name for up to 10 years!
Make your Team’s Achievements timeless: Win a .Tech Domain Name for up to 10 years to Showcase and Expand Your Project, Plus Desktop Mics for Effortless Collaboration on Zoom, empowering you to build even more cool things together!

Challenge 1 — Beyond Euclid

Build an interactive experience where Euclidean geometry no longer applies. You can create a game, visualization, educational tool, interface, or anything else—as long as non-Euclidean geometry is a meaningful part of the experience. Think hyperbolic worlds, spherical spaces, 4D projections, or impossible Escher-like environments.

For more information, please see this link: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1GBIzpa04V49KhFKl4sHSEyIsTWBjzu-R?usp=sharing

Winners receive:
* 1st Place: Huawei GT6 Watch/ or similar Huawei consumer product
* 2nd Place: Huawei Freeclip2 Earbuds / or similar Huawei consumer product

Challenge 2 — Fetching Reality

Take a static photo of a dog and bring it to life as a real-time, interactive digital pet. Go beyond simple animations—make the dog respond to users, interact with its environment, or play with them. You’re encouraged to explore techniques like SDFs, Gaussian Splatting, AI tools, and other graphics techniques to create a convincing and interactive experience.

For more information, please see this link: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1GBIzpa04V49KhFKl4sHSEyIsTWBjzu-R?usp=sharing

Winners receive:
* 1st Place: Huawei GT6 Watch/ or similar Huawei consumer product
* 2nd Place: Huawei Freeclip2 Earbuds / or similar Huawei consumer product

Build anything you’re excited about with TiDB. The only requirement is to meaningfully use at least one TiDB AI capability.

Explore capabilities like Vector Search, Full-Text & Hybrid Search, agent memory and state, or TiDB Cloud Filesystem to power the data, search, retrieval, memory, or state behind your idea.

One TiDB AI capability required. Everything else is up to you.

Winners receive:
* 1st Place — $1,000 TiDB Cloud Credits
* 2nd Place — $500 TiDB Cloud Credits
* 3rd Place — $300 TiDB Cloud Credits

Create a project that pays tribute to a historical computing science achievement!

To enter this track, you must submit five correct answers in our SFU CS History scavenger hunt. Full details are in the "scavenger-hunt-for-sfu-cs-history" channel in the StormHacks Discord server.

In order to be eligible for this prize, you MUST complete 50% of the scavenger hunt.

Winner receives:
* 2 x Gundams
* 1 x JBL Speaker
* 1 x Keyboard
* 2 x Battery packs

The best project using python!

Winner receives:
* 4 x 40,000mAh power bank
* 4 x UGREEN revodok 6-in-1 USB-C hub

The entire team MUST identify as women, non-binary, or any other gender minority.

Winner receives:
* 4 blind boxes from Art Box
* 4 x UGREEN nexode Air 65W charger

Project must be in line or revolve around solving one or more of the UNSDG: https://sdgs.un.org/goals. Special preference for Goal 17: Partnership for the goals

Winner receives: $300 value prize

The project with the best overall design!

Winner receives: $100 value prize

Free satellite data is publicly available in archives that go back decades, and almost nobody uses it. Put some Earth observation data in your project. The data you use should be all open, free to download, and readable with free Python libraries. It can be the entire project or one part of it, as long as the data is doing real work. Extra merit if the project is aimed at disaster relief. Find out more about the ALEASAT project: https://sfusat.org/projects/aleasat.

Winner receives: 2 x Nooelec RTL-SDR v5 Bundle

3 x $50 Tacofino Giftcard