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
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 SubmitYour Devpost submission must include:
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Project title
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Project description, including your team name and prompt number
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Public GitHub repository
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Working README
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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.
Prizes
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Will be announced in opening ceremony
Devpost Achievements
Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:
Judges
John Luke Denny
Instructor, Louisiana State University
Sayak Saha Roy
Assistant Professor, Louisiana State University
Alexander Adams
CEO, Vigilus/GrassFed Development
Dwijen Kirtanoa
Engineering leader at Intuit
Felipe Fronchetti
Assistant Professor, Louisiana State University
Daniel Donze
Assistant Professor, Louisiana State University
Sharath Chandra Kampili
Senior Security Engineer at AWS
Judging Criteria
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Questions? Email the hackathon manager
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