Hackathons in the USA

Upcoming hackathons in the USA and online hackathons you can join from the USA: dates, prize pools and registration links from Devpost, MLH, lablab.ai, Unstop and more, refreshed daily.

Want a team? Builders from the USA and everywhere else pair up for these in the UBITS.TECH Discord.

In-person hackathons in the USA (40)

• HackUTD Roadshow
  Major League Hacking · 6 Nov 2026 · Richardson, Texas
• SharkByte
  Major League Hacking · 6 Nov 2026 to 8 Nov 2026 · Miami, FL
• YCP Hacks
  Major League Hacking · 6 Nov 2026 to 8 Nov 2026 · York PA, PA
• HackUTD 2026: ZeroDay
  hackutd · 7 Nov 2026 to 8 Nov 2026 · University of Texas at Dallas - ECSW · $60,000 in prizes
• Meow
  [email protected] · 7 Nov 2026 to 8 Nov 2026 · Cincinnati, OH, USA
• Qualcomm UNO Q Hack Night #3
  [SF] HackerSquad · 7 Nov 2026 · Santa Clara, CA
• HackUTD
  Major League Hacking · 7 Nov 2026 to 8 Nov 2026 · Richardson, Texas
• HACK.COMS
  Major League Hacking · 7 Nov 2026 to 8 Nov 2026 · Rochester, New York
• HACK.COMS 2026
  Major League Hacking · 7 Nov 2026 to 8 Nov 2026 · Rochester, New York
• HackRPI 2026
  Major League Hacking · 7 Nov 2026 to 8 Nov 2026 · Troy, New York
• MakeCU
  Major League Hacking · 7 Nov 2026 to 8 Nov 2026 · New York, New York
• MakeUC
  Major League Hacking · 7 Nov 2026 to 8 Nov 2026 · Cincinnati , Ohio
• TAMU Datathon
  Major League Hacking · 7 Nov 2026 to 8 Nov 2026 · College Station, Texas
• UB Hacking
  Major League Hacking · 7 Nov 2026 to 8 Nov 2026 · Buffalo, Northeast
• Falcon Hacks
  Hack Club · 7 Nov 2026 to 8 Nov 2026 · Pleasanton, California, United States
• GullHacks
  Major League Hacking · 7 Nov 2026 to 8 Nov 2026 · Salisbury, MD
• Grok Bot Build Day SF: Real-World Agents
  SpaceXSI for San Francisco, US · 7 Nov 2026 to 8 Nov 2026 · San Francisco, CA
• REMOVE
  me · 8 Nov 2026 · Chicago, Illinois, USA
• Build Day: OpenRouter x Meta
  OpenRouter Events · 10 Nov 2026 · San Francisco, CA
• Lovable: Hackathon x Startup Trek
  MAIC · 10 Nov 2026 · Boston, MA
• partner demo day
  The Residency - Bay Area · 10 Nov 2026 to 11 Nov 2026 · San Francisco, CA
• Stripe Startups Build Day San Francisco
  Stripe Startups · 11 Nov 2026 to 12 Nov 2026 · South San Francisco, CA
• University Blockchain Conference Hackathon 2026
  college.xyz · 13 Nov 2026 to 20 Nov 2026 · University of Texas at Austin · $22,000 in prizes
• Humanmade Hardware Accelerator Demo Day
  Personal · 13 Nov 2026 · San Francisco, CA
• Emory Hacks
  Major League Hacking · 13 Nov 2026 to 15 Nov 2026 · Atlanta, GA
• HackPrinceton Fall 2026
  Major League Hacking · 13 Nov 2026 to 15 Nov 2026 · Princeton, New Jersey
• NASA's Space Apps Challenge NYC
  Major League Hacking · 13 Nov 2026 to 15 Nov 2026 · Brooklyn, New York
• HackUMass
  Major League Hacking · 13 Nov 2026 to 15 Nov 2026 · Amherst, MA
• Haven Richmond
  HackClub ✓⃝ · 14 Nov 2026 to 15 Nov 2026 · Richmond, Virginia, USA · $500 in prizes
• Haven Seattle
  Hack Club · 14 Nov 2026 to 15 Nov 2026 · Seattle, Washington, USA · $100 in prizes
• SearchHack: Build the next layer of AI search
  Telem AI · 14 Nov 2026 · Sunnyvale
• OCSEFhacks
  Hack Club · 14 Nov 2026 to 15 Nov 2026 · Westminster, California, United States
• OCSEFhacks
  Hack Club · 14 Nov 2026 to 15 Nov 2026 · Westminster, California, United States
• Teens Hack Houston
  Hack Club · 14 Nov 2026 to 21 Nov 2026 · Online
• Hack The Nest
  Major League Hacking · 14 Nov 2026 to 15 Nov 2026 · Ypsilanti, Michigan
• HackUTA
  Major League Hacking · 14 Nov 2026 to 15 Nov 2026 · Arlington, Texas
• SanD Hacks
  Major League Hacking · 14 Nov 2026 to 15 Nov 2026 · La Jolla, CA
• sunhacks
  Major League Hacking · 14 Nov 2026 to 15 Nov 2026 · Tempe, Arizona
• DNAForge & MTC Berkeley: AI × Biology Hackathon
  MTC Berkeley · 14 Nov 2026 to 15 Nov 2026 · Berkeley, CA
• She Builds: A Women in AI × Lovable Hackathon
  Women in AI · 14 Nov 2026 to 15 Nov 2026 · San Francisco, CA

Online hackathons you can join from the USA (30)

• 2026 UXC NYU Fall Design-a-thon
  New York University · 2 Nov 2026 to 7 Nov 2026 · Online · $1,000 in prizes
• 305 Veterans Hackathon Edition November 2026 — 305Hackathons.vercel.app
  GOOGLE DEVELOPER GROUP AT FIU · 1 Nov 2026 to 30 Nov 2026 · Online
• AI Agents for Founders Challenge — HETIC 2026
  HETIC · 4 Nov 2026 to 18 Dec 2026 · Online · $1,124 in prizes
• AI OpenBuild
  AI OpenBuild · 5 Nov 2026 to 10 Dec 2026 · Online · $150 in prizes
• AI for Medicine: A Global Student Hackathon on the Future of Care
  Open Health AI Collective · 4 Nov 2026 to 4 Dec 2026 · Online
• AMD AI League
  lablab.ai · 1 Sep 2026 to 1 Dec 2026 · Online
• AWS MSP AI Hackathon
  AWS · 2 Nov 2026 to 11 Dec 2026 · Online · $64,000 in prizes
• AccessED Hacks
  AccessEDnpo · 17 Oct 2026 to 20 Nov 2026 · Online · $225 in prizes
• Agentic Banking Hackathon
  HackerEarth · 5 Oct 2026 to 13 Nov 2026 · Online
• Agentic Hackathon
  Devin · 1 Nov 2026 to 10 Nov 2026 · Online · $480 in prizes
• Arbiter Hacks V1
  Arbiter · 20 Oct 2026 to 21 Dec 2026 · Online · $7,800 in prizes
• Build Your First AI App
  Yasir Insights · 27 Oct 2026 to 27 Nov 2026 · Online
• CSC Winter Sparkathon
  The Webb Schools CSC · 29 Oct 2026 to 30 Nov 2026 · Online · $100 in prizes
• Code For DFW
  n/a · 20 Oct 2026 to 25 Nov 2026 · Online
• Code for Change
  HackathonForEveryone · 5 Nov 2026 to 1 Dec 2026 · Online · $200 in prizes
• Code for Humanity
  nill · 16 Jul 2026 to 15 Jan 2027 · Online
• Codegeist 2026: Build with context. Ship with confidence.
  Atlassian · 27 Oct 2026 to 22 Dec 2026 · Online · $120,000 in prizes
• Ctrl+V Hackathon
  ADHAYAN · 6 Nov 2026 to 10 Nov 2026 · Online · $28,000 in prizes
• DATANOVA 2026 GLOBAL DATA-THON
  DataNova · 26 Oct 2026 to 10 Nov 2026 · Online · $1,750 in prizes
• DSH Hacks V2 ($100k+ in prizes!)
  STEMise · 24 Jun 2026 to 15 Nov 2026 · Online
• Dakar Bitcoin Hack by BTrust
  Dakar Bitcoin Days · 26 Oct 2026 to 20 Nov 2026 · Online · $900 in prizes
• EthnoHack
  ETHCSTWIN · 2 Nov 2026 to 8 Nov 2026 · Online · $8,990 in prizes
• GenHacks
  Shail & Sharaf · 1 Nov 2026 to 26 Dec 2026 · Online · $752 in prizes
• Green Shift Hacks
  HackathonForEveryone · 18 Oct 2026 to 17 Nov 2026 · Online · $125 in prizes
• HackOut! 2027
  BranchOut! · 3 Nov 2026 to 1 Feb 2027 · Online · $3,000 in prizes
• HackTheFashion Global'26
  FabricVTON · 6 Nov 2026 to 25 Nov 2026 · Online · $45,000 in prizes
• HackWithAditya
  Aditya University · 16 Oct 2026 to 25 Nov 2026 · Online · $5,284 in prizes
• Hackathon Agéntico SoftwareChido 2026B
  ITESO · 5 Oct 2026 to 25 Nov 2026 · Online
• Hackonomics 2027
  hackonomics · 1 Jul 2026 to 1 Jun 2027 · Online
• Herhack
  Echelon institute of technology · 17 Oct 2026 to 10 Nov 2026 · Online · $2,114 in prizes

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