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)

• Capitol
  Hack Club · 1 Sep 2026 to 9 Oct 2026 · Washington, District of Columbia, United States
• HTCJ × PROOF Aviation Futures Challenge
  hacktheconcretejungle · 25 Jun 2026 to 27 Oct 2026 · Boston Venture Week
• Jon Test Event
  Major League Hacking · 10 Sep 2026 to 20 Sep 2026 · New York, New York
• Poly.Tech mini hackathon
  None · 11 Sep 2026 to 17 Sep 2026 · Baltimore, MD, USA · $50 in prizes
• Grok Bot for Marketing build night (NYC)
  SpaceXAI Community · 17 Sep 2026 to 18 Sep 2026 · Brooklyn, NY
• HackHers @GSU
  Major League Hacking · 18 Sep 2026 to 19 Sep 2026 · Atlanta, , GA
• Robot Hackathon: Fine Motor Skills
  Viam · 18 Sep 2026 to 19 Sep 2026 · New York, NY
• VTHacks 14
  Major League Hacking · 18 Sep 2026 to 20 Sep 2026 · Blacksburg, Virginia
• HopHacks
  Major League Hacking · 18 Sep 2026 to 20 Sep 2026 · Baltimore, Maryland
• SteelHacks XIII
  PittCSC · 19 Sep 2026 to 20 Sep 2026 · University of Pittsburgh - Posvar Hall
• SteelHacks XIII
  Major League Hacking · 19 Sep 2026 to 20 Sep 2026 · Pittsburgh, PA
• Cursor Austin X AITX Hackathon
  SpaceXAI for Austin, US · 19 Sep 2026 · Austin, TX
• RUNTIME: Build + Demo Day!
  Runtime Agent Week · 19 Sep 2026 · Brooklyn, NY
• San Francisco | Claude Build Day
  Claude Community Events · 19 Sep 2026 · San Francisco, CA
• Fable 5.1 Build Day - Austin
  Claude Community Events · 19 Sep 2026 · Austin, TX
• SVYCA Youth for Earth (Y4E) Hackathon
  Silicon Valley Youth Climate Action · 20 Sep 2026 to 18 Oct 2026 · Stanford University · $2,700 in prizes
• Seattle GiveCamp 2026
  Seattle GiveCamp · 20 Sep 2026 · Redmond, Washington, United States
• 1% for the Planet Volunteer Hackathon
  1% for the Planet Volunteer Hackathons · 21 Sep 2026 · New York, NY
• Builder Night: AI Vibe Coding Community Networking & Showcasing on the Eastside (ctrl+alt+create live)
  ctrl+alt+create live: AI / Vibe Coding Workshops for All · 22 Sep 2026 · Issaquah, WA
• Boston Computational Biology Hackathon with Anthropic, Modal, and Flagship Pioneering
  Modal · 22 Sep 2026 · Cambridge, MA
• Boston | Claude Build Day
  Claude Community Events · 23 Sep 2026 to 24 Sep 2026 · Boston, MA
• SF Frontier Hackathon: Build your Autonomous Code Factory
  Obvious Community Events · 24 Sep 2026 to 25 Sep 2026 · San Francisco, CA
• Houston Hackathon 2026
  Impact Hub Houston · 25 Sep 2026 to 28 Sep 2026 · Impact Hub Houston @ Ion District
• Recruit Holdings Hackathon “Innovation Cup”
  Recruit Holdings Co., Ltd. · 25 Sep 2026 to 27 Sep 2026 · CA, USA · $70,000 in prizes
• &HACKS XII
  Major League Hacking · 25 Sep 2026 to 27 Sep 2026 · Williamsburg, Virginia
• HackGT 13
  Major League Hacking · 25 Sep 2026 to 27 Sep 2026 · Atlanta, GA
• ShellHacks
  Major League Hacking · 25 Sep 2026 to 27 Sep 2026 · Miami, Florida
• TigerHacks
  Major League Hacking · 25 Sep 2026 to 27 Sep 2026 · Columbia, Missouri
• DivHacks
  Major League Hacking · 26 Sep 2026 to 27 Sep 2026 · New York, NY
• OwlHacks
  Major League Hacking · 26 Sep 2026 to 27 Sep 2026 · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
• The Harness Engineering & Model Wrangling Hackathon
  MongoDB · 26 Sep 2026 to 27 Sep 2026 · New York, NY
• hackUMBC
  Major League Hacking · 26 Sep 2026 to 27 Sep 2026 · Baltimore, MD
• Gator Quant Hacks
  University of Florida · 2 Oct 2026 to 4 Oct 2026 · Gainesville, Florida · $25,000 in prizes
• BigRed//Hacks 2026
  Major League Hacking · 2 Oct 2026 to 4 Oct 2026 · Ithaca, New York
• Gator Quant Hacks
  Major League Hacking · 2 Oct 2026 to 4 Oct 2026 · Gainesville, Florida
• Dublin hacx
  Hack Club · 3 Oct 2026 · San Ramon, California, United States
• MHacks
  Major League Hacking · 3 Oct 2026 to 4 Oct 2026 · Ann Arbor, MI
• Rowdy Hacks
  Major League Hacking · 3 Oct 2026 to 4 Oct 2026 · San Antonio, Texas
• WolfHacks by ACM at NC State
  Major League Hacking · 3 Oct 2026 to 4 Oct 2026 · Raleigh, NC
• GirlHacks
  Major League Hacking · 3 Oct 2026 to 4 Oct 2026 · Newark, NJ

Online hackathons you can join from the USA (30)

• 305 HackShells Edition September 2026
  Swift at FIU · 15 Sep 2026 to 30 Sep 2026 · Online
• 3rd-Web-Hack
  TechZap Club · 22 Aug 2026 to 27 Sep 2026 · Online · $750 in prizes
• AWS Communication Developer Services (CDS) Agentic AI Partner Hackathon
  AWS · 14 Sep 2026 to 28 Oct 2026 · Online · $40,000 in prizes
• AssemblyAI - Voice Agent Hackathon
  lablab.ai · 1 Sep 2026 to 30 Sep 2026 · Online · $10,000 in prizes
• Beginner's Paradise - FirstCommit
  FirstCommit · 21 Aug 2026 to 30 Sep 2026 · Online · $1,024 in prizes
• Build, Ship, Shape: Amazon Developer Hackathon
  Amazon · 31 Aug 2026 to 23 Oct 2026 · Online · $138,000 in prizes
• BunnieX Hackathon
  TechieBunnies team · 22 Jun 2026 to 22 Sep 2026 · Online
• COMPSPHERE 12
  President University · 3 Aug 2026 to 17 Sep 2026 · Online · $1,247 in prizes
• CSC Back-to-School Hackathon
  The Webb Schools CSC · 4 Sep 2026 to 5 Oct 2026 · Online · $400 in prizes
• Code for Humanity
  nill · 16 Jul 2026 to 15 Jan 2027 · Online
• DFA Design Sprint
  DFA Yale · 8 Sep 2026 to 19 Sep 2026 · Online
• DSH Hacks V2
  STEMise · 24 Jun 2026 to 8 Nov 2026 · Online · $42,234 in prizes
• Evorozen Apex: NextGen AI Buildathon
  Evorozen · 17 Jul 2026 to 20 Sep 2026 · Online
• Galuxium Nexus V2
  Galuxium · 15 Jul 2026 to 31 Oct 2026 · Online · $14,944 in prizes
• GatewayHacks 2026 | Software & AI
  GatewayGS · 1 Sep 2026 to 2 Oct 2026 · Online · $1,007,085 in prizes
• Global Hack Week: Data
  Major League Hacking · 11 Sep 2026 to 17 Sep 2026 · Online
• Global Innovation Build Challenge V2
  Kang Chiao International School Student · 11 Jul 2026 to 1 Oct 2026 · Online
• Graphiques Innovation Challenge
  Hack Club · 21 Aug 2026 to 18 Sep 2026 · Online
• HACK47: OFFGRID
  Hack47 · 15 Sep 2026 to 15 Oct 2026 · Online
• Hack2Heal 2.0 - Global Healthcare Innovation Hackathon
  Institute of Engineering & Management · 25 Aug 2026 to 18 Sep 2026 · Online · $100 in prizes
• Hackonomics 2027
  hackonomics · 1 Jul 2026 to 1 Jun 2027 · Online
• Hyperbloom September - Beginer Freindly
  hyperbloom hacks · 14 Sep 2026 to 23 Sep 2026 · Online
• InfinityX Global Hackathon 2K26
  Innovation Hacks · 15 Sep 2026 to 25 Sep 2026 · Online
• InnovArt 2027: Art and Technology Hack Day
  Binnovative · 23 Aug 2026 to 2 Jan 2027 · Online
• LUMA Hackathon (September 20th - 28th)
  LUMA · 26 Jun 2026 to 28 Sep 2026 · Online
• Lablab x AMD AI Academy Challenge
  lablab.ai · 1 Sep 2026 to 1 Dec 2026 · Online
• LexHack 2026
  Lexhack · 11 Sep 2026 to 27 Sep 2026 · Online · $59,560 in prizes
• MCA 2026 projects
  Mizzou Computing Association · 27 Feb 2026 to 25 Dec 2026 · Online
• ML Empowerment Build Challenge 3.0
  ML Empowerment Foundation · 30 Aug 2026 to 1 Oct 2026 · Online · $53,500 in prizes
• ML Empowerment Build Challenge 3.0
  ML Empowerment Foundation · 5 Sep 2026 to 5 Oct 2026 · Online · $34,200 in prizes

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