Veritas AI International High School Hackathon

The Veritas AI International High School Hackathon is a free, 48-hour virtual AI hackathon for high school students anywhere in the world. Over one November weekend, students build a working AI project in a track of their choice (from health and climate to finance and more) and compete for an internship at a health AI startup.

ELIGIBILITY
Open to any high school student worldwide. Compete solo or in a team of up to 3 (one registration covers the whole team). Entry is free and no prior AI experience is needed. Every participant gets starter notebooks, and free live prep workshops run in the weeks before the event.

DELIVERABLES
Each team submits working code, a short write-up and a 2-minute demo video by the end of the 48 hours.

TIMELINE (all times ET)
- Oct 5: Registration opens
- Oct 17: Free workshop, Intro to Google Colab
- Oct 27: Tracks announced
- Nov 1: Free workshop, How to Scope a Weekend AI Project
- Nov 13, 11:59 PM: Registration closes; starter kit sent by email
- Nov 14, 12:00 AM: Kickoff, challenge briefs released
- Nov 15, 11:59 PM: Submissions close
- Nov 18: Finalists announced
- Nov 21: Live finals and award ceremony (livestreamed)
- Dec 6: Last day for winners to claim prizes

JUDGING
Round 1: every submission is reviewed blind by the Veritas AI team. Finals: the top teams demo live to a panel of researchers and engineers from Microsoft Research, Stanford, Harvard and Princeton.

PRIZES
Every member of the Gold-winning team gets a working internship at Arecibo AI, a healthcare AI startup. Winners also earn scholarships to Veritas AI programs from a $75,000+ prize pool, plus a permanent spot among the winning projects on veritasai.com.