CSC Back-to-School Hackathon

About the Challenge

The CSC Back-to-School Hackathon is a beginner-friendly high school hackathon where students build technology to improve school life.

Your project can be an app, website, tool, AI project, design prototype, or physical gadget. It can help students, teachers, clubs, classrooms, dorms, teams, or schools solve a real problem. Projects can focus on studying, scheduling, communication, organization, wellness, accessibility, campus life, classroom tools, or any other school-related challenge.

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. The goal is to help students explore ideas, build higher-quality projects, and see how computer science can create practical change.

However, teams must disclose how they used AI and must be able to explain their project, their decisions, and how their final product works.

Stay Connected

Follow CSC throughout the hackathon for updates, reminders, project highlights, and future opportunities.

Follow @webbcsc2028 on Instagram for major milestones, project highlights, winner spotlights, event recaps, and future CSC events.

Join the Webb CSC Community on Discord for announcements, reminders, Q&A, support, and updates throughout submissions and judging.

Participation in these communities is optional and does not affect eligibility or judging.

Get Started

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