About GeauxHack

GeauxHack is a free, student-led hackathon at Louisiana State University bringing students of all experience levels together for a weekend of building, experimenting, and sharing ideas.

Join us October 23–25, 2026 at LSU for a weekend of creativity, collaboration, and innovation. Compete in Beginner, Intermediate, and Advanced brackets for $5,000+ in prizes, credits, and opportunities.

Learn more at https://geauxhack.com/

Requirements

What to Build

Build a project that addresses the GeauxHack prompt and/or any sponsor challenges listed here. Your project should meaningfully address the rubric and will be evaluated by a panel of 3-4 Judges following your presentation.

You may use external resources such as pretrained models, open-source models, datasets, and external services, subject to the limitations outlined in the GeauxHack Rules Document.

Projects must be built during the hackathon. AI-assisted and AI-generated code is allowed, but it must be documented in your README, and team members must be able to explain the submitted code.

What to Submit

Your Devpost submission must include:

  • Project title

  • Project description, including your team name and prompt number

  • Public GitHub repository

  • Working README

  • Demonstration of your application

Your project must be submitted on Devpost by 12:00 PM CDT on Sunday, October 25th. The GitHub repository must be public by the submission deadline and cannot be edited after the deadline. 

Your presentation should cover the problem/prompt, solution, technical implementation, demonstration, and impact/use case of your project. Each team will have 8 minutes to present.

For complete project, API, AI, and submission rules, please refer to the GeauxHack Rules Document.

Hackathon Sponsors

Prizes

1 non-cash prize
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1 winner

Will be announced in opening ceremony

Devpost Achievements

Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:

Judges

John Luke Denny

John Luke Denny
Instructor, Louisiana State University

Sayak Saha Roy

Sayak Saha Roy
Assistant Professor, Louisiana State University

Alexander Adams

Alexander Adams
CEO, Vigilus/GrassFed Development

Dwijen Kirtanoa

Dwijen Kirtanoa
Engineering leader at Intuit

Felipe Fronchetti

Felipe Fronchetti
Assistant Professor, Louisiana State University

Daniel Donze

Daniel Donze
Assistant Professor, Louisiana State University

Sharath Chandra Kampili

Sharath Chandra Kampili
Senior Security Engineer at AWS

Judging Criteria

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