Ray-Ban Meta Headliners

Fitbit Sense 2

Amazon Echo Show 5

Sandbox VR voucher
$20 Outback Gift Cards

Challenge: Create a project that promotes environmental sustainability.

Prize: ESP32 Starter Kit

Spirit Challenge: Complete our spirit challenges throughout the hackathon and be the team to collect the most points

Prize: FGCU Merch

Company Challenge: Build an application that supports Arthrex’s mission of “Helping Surgeons Treat Their Patients Better”.

Prize: Arthrex Swag Pack

Company Challenge: Build an app that uses AI to turn unstructured input into something useful. Your input could be a photo, a voice memo, a screenshot, a scanned document, a block of pasted text. Anything from the real world. Your AI doesn't have to be generative. Machine learning, computer vision, classification, NLP, or any combination all count. Your app should do one thing well. But real-world input is unpredictable, so show us you've thought about: What's your one thing?

Prize: TBA

Company Challenge: Intelligent Banking Analyst
Build an AI agent that analyzes customer data and generates actionable financial insights, risk signals, and recommendations.
You’ll be using symplistic.ai’s ContentIQ for ingesting structured and unstructured data, and IBM’s watsonx Orchestrate for multi-step agent workflows. Some hints when building your solution:
• Ingest and structure data from sources such as transaction history, onboarding documents, and customer profiles
• Generate meaningful insights about the customer (spending behavior, anomalies, risk signals, opportunities)
• Identify inconsistencies, risks, or unusual patterns across data sources
• Provide clear, evidence-backed explanations for all outputs
• Surface actionable recommendations or next steps

Prize: T-Shirts & Lunch with ceo

Company Challenge:
Dashboard for restaurant operations
Simulated UI for a commercial kitchen appliance
No restriction on tech stack or framework

Prize: 4x $100 Best Buy Gift Card & Shadowing an Engineer