About the challenge

EnviroCast GEO: From Insight to Impact Hackathon is an international, student-led online hackathon that invites participants to innovate, build, and solve real-world problems to shape the future.

Whether you’re creating a web app, mobile tool, hardware prototype, AI solution, or entirely new technology, this hackathon is open-ended — your ideas are the limit.

Theme: From Insight to Impact

• Explore bold engineering solutions
• Experiment with creative technology
• Design projects that have real-world impact
• Ensure projects are efficient and transparent

Participants may use Featherless inference credits during the hackathon. Featherless is providing inference access for all participants for the full duration of the hackathon. For a detailed guide on accessing these credits, refer to the Resources section of this hackathon page.

All participants will receive 300 credits for MeDo.dev, with technical support and Q&A information through the Discord server. For a detailed guide on accessing these credits, refer to the Resouces section of this hackathon page.

Hackathon Highlights:

• Fully virtual and international
• Winners announced live during the EnviroCast GEO: Furthering the Future Conference @ http://geo.envirocast.org/ (May 24, Day 2)
  • Winners will also be announced on Devpost 
  • If you desire to be a speaker at the GEO international conference, apply at the link provided to be a speaker.
• Free to enter, open to all eligible students

About our Sponsors:

Featherless is an inference provider and AI research lab that hosts over 20,000+ open-weight models. Featherless optimizes inference and architecture so models run faster, cheaper, and reliably in production.

MeDo is an affordable yet powerful way to turn ideas into life fast, with no code, no setup, no limits. MeDo uses agentic AI to build production‑ready full‑stack apps — frontend, backend, database and integrations — in minutes. Everything is automated through natural language.

TruthInTech is a global policy initative advocating for integrity in AI systems through youth-led policy frameworks, global education, and evidence-based governance.

Get ready to build, innovate, and showcase your ideas to the world!

• Innovation & Creativity
  How unique and original is the solution?
• Impact & Relevance
  Does it address a real-world problem or contribute to the future?
• Technical Execution
  How well is the project designed and implemented?
• Presentation
  Clarity, visuals, and communication of the idea
• Feasibility & Scalability
  Could the project realistically be built or scaled?
• Featherless Integration (optional, but recommended)
  Projects may leverage Featherless inference for deployment, scaling, or real-time workloads. This is not required but highly encouraged. Inference access is sponsored for all participants for the full duration of the hackathon.
• TruthInTech Ethics
  Projects should follow TruthInTech guidelines for integrity, ethics, and transparency.