CSC Summer Impactathon

About the challenge

The CSC Summer Impactathon is a beginner-friendly high school hackathon where students build technology to address real needs in their local communities.

Your project can be an app, website, tool, AI project, design prototype, or physical gadget. It can help a school, neighborhood, family, club, nonprofit, small business, public space, or community group solve a real problem. Projects can focus on education, accessibility, communication, organization, wellness, sustainability, safety, community support, or any other local issue that affects real people.

AI tools are allowed and encouraged. You may use tools such as ChatGPT, Claude, or other coding and design assistants to brainstorm, code, debug, design, and build your project. Using AI will not lower your score. However, teams must disclose how they used AI and must be able to explain their project, their decisions, and how their final product works.

Get started

1. Find a real local community problem.
2. Think about who the problem affects.
3. Build an app, website, AI tool, prototype, or gadget that helps solve it.
4. Use any tools, tutorials, APIs, templates, or AI assistants that help you learn and build.
5. Submit your project on Devpost with an explanation, demo, and AI-use disclosure.

You may work individually or in teams of up to 4 people. A 1–2 minute demo video is optional but encouraged.