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About the challengeJoin OHack Summer 2025, a unique hackathon that kicks off our comprehensive Summer Volunteer Internship Program! A journey of building meaningful technology for nonprofits.
The Challenge: Create innovative tech solutions for real nonprofit partners with real problems.
What makes this special:
- Real-World Impact: Build production-ready solutions for actual nonprofits with genuine needs
- Extended Development: Turn your hackathon prototype into a fully deployed solution over 8 weeks
- Professional Mentorship: Work with industry professionals from top tech companies
- Full-Stack Experience: Cover the complete product lifecycle from ideation to deployment
- Portfolio Building: Create substantial projects that showcase both technical skills and social responsibility
Open to all roles: Software Engineers (SWE), Data Scientists (DS), Data Engineers (DE), Product Managers (PM), Technical Program Managers (TPM), Product Marketing Managers (PMM), and UX/UI Designers.
This is your chance to gain startup-like experience while making a lasting difference for organizations serving important causes.
Get startedPhase 1: Forming
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Register & Form Teams (1-5 people recommended)
- Mix technical and non-technical skills
- Solo participants welcome – we'll help with team formation
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Select Your Nonprofit Challenge
- Review real challenges from our partner organizations
- Choose projects aligned with your skills and passion
- We'll match every team with a nonprofit
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Build Your MVP
- Create a working prototype during the hackathon
- Focus on demonstrating core value proposition
Phase 2: Storming and Norming
- Commit 10-15 hours weekly to developing your solution
- Work remotely after aligning your team schedules
- Regular mentorship sessions with industry professionals - ask in #ask-a-mentor on Slack
- Iterate based on feedback and user testing
- Deploy production-ready solutions that nonprofits will actually use
- Add your demos and projects to this DevPost to showcase your completed project
- Make sure you're building your project according to our judging criteria
Requirements
What to Build
A complete solution that conforms to our judging criteria.
What to Submit
Teams must submit their projects to DevPost with complete descriptions, 4-minute demo videos, and GitHub repository link.
Demo videos longer than 4 minutes will not be accepted. Not 4 minutes and 5 seconds, 4 minutes.
Prizes
1st Place
1st place winning team
2nd Place
2nd place winning team
3rd Place
3rd place winning team
Devpost Achievements
Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:
Judges
Leon Kipkoech
XUEFEI GAO
Ascent Bio - Co-founder and COO
Ankush Rastogi
Vail Systems, Inc - Senior Data Solutions Engineer
Zishan Huang
Doe Labs (yc s25) - Founding Engineer
Sunandan Barman
Meta - Production Engineer
Harshali Talele
Google - Software Engineer
Sai Krishna
Google - Software Engineer
Gauri Kasar
Microsoft - Product Manager
Sandhya Ganesh
Tinder - Group Product Manager
Prashant Nigam
Salesforce - Senior Member of Technical Staff
Vijay Atla
Meta - Senior Software Engineer
Seema Phalke
Nvidia - Senior Software Engineer
Karly Heffernan
Rivvet.ai - Founder
Peggy Du
Esri - UX designer
Isaac Marinero
The Commerce Casino - Gaming Support Technician
Vrinda Bhatia
Block - Senior ML Engineer
Madhu Ramanthan
Microsoft - Principal Group Engineering Manager, Trust, Safety and Intelligence, MSN, Microsoft
Bhavna Hirani
Autodesk - Software Development Manager
Siddhant Jadhav
Meta - Business Engineer
Shivani Paunikar
Tucson Police Department - Data Engineer
Abhishek Jaiswal
VIA - Business Intelligence Analyst
Anubha Bhaik
Barclays - Software Developer
Mitendra Mahto
Linkedin - Engineering Manager
Saurabh Kakkar
SANTANDER BANK - Director Risk Data Analytics
Pranjali Kokare
Roblox - Senior Software Engineer
Sumit Sharma
Meta - Privacy Tooling & Operations
Amandeep Singh Arora
American Express - Senior Engineer I
Olajide Shobowale
Amazon Web Services
Devang Gaur
Adobe - Product Manager, Payments
Mohit Goel
NIKE - Senior manager - Technical Program Management
Judging Criteria
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Scope of Solution
Impact on Community - how many people and nonprofits are impacted by this solution? Complexity of Problem Solved - how hard was this to do versus what is already out there? -
Documentation
Code and UX Documentation - clear how to use the solution Ease of Understanding - straightforward design -
Polish
Work remaining - minimal work remaining for MVP Can use today - deployed in the cloud, able to be shipped now -
Security
Data Protection - hard to gain access to data because of security controls Role-based Security - admin versus public access (where applicable
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