1st Place
Tekton
ekton is an evidence-driven 3D digital reconstruction platform for ancient architecture, specializing in the preservation and visualization of Tang Dynasty timber-frame buildings.
culture/heritagedev tools
Holly Tang, Austin Burgess
AI lab hackathons, 2025 to now
What got built, and what won.
Every submission from hackathons run by Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Meta and the other big labs, with the winners marked and the code linked.
- projects
- 31,980
- hackathons
- 93
- award winners
- 585
- inferred from GitHub
- 433
1st Place | Education
Mechanica — A Digital Museum of Ancient Chinese Machines
Four lost ancient Chinese machines reborn as physically-simulated, source-cited interactive exhibits — with a GPT-5.6 docent that refuses to hallucinate.
culture/heritagescience
Caleb0796 wei, yukunl Li, O Z
ElevenLabs Challenge: Third Place
Memoria: The Biographer Agent
A voice-first app designed for the elderly to preserve their life stories without needing to type or use complex interfaces.
voiceculture/heritage
Lasse Stilvang
Best of Creative Storytellers
Sankofa
Transforming fragmented family history into living, breathing, multimodal stories.
culture/heritagevoice
Jeremiah Somoine
WebMCP Challenge Winners
MASIL — Reconnecting Korean Elders to Creative Life
Korean elders living alone lose access to creative spaces. Only the web remains; its UI fails them. WebMCP turns Agent access into human access—restoring creative life and expanding what’s possible.
accessibilityculture/heritage
Sangjoon Son
Runner-up
Spoken Letter
Distance shouldn't mean silence. Spoken Letter lets any family member or friend record a story in their own voice and send it to a child's Yoto. Any story, screen-free, and parents approve each one.
voiceculture/heritage
Juan González Ponce, Jordan Lynn
20 Category Winners
Mapping 19th Century Jewish Charity in New York
An interactive historical map tracing the divide between poverty and philanthropy in immigrant-era Manhattan—built on Google Maps Platform from a forgotten 1899 charity ledger.
culture/heritage
Aravind Ajith, Adhun Anand, Sarath AR +1
20 Category Winners
The Signal Remains
U2’s tours remapped with styled Google Maps, tracing a cultural signal across continents. Hosted in the cloud for a dynamic, navigation-driven map narrative of late 20th-century history.
culture/heritagecreative/music
20 Category Winners
Daryaft
A visual tour guide to Mount Fuji
culture/heritage
Ziya Uddin
Best of Challenge 1: Wild Card
Historic Matchup Simulator
Imagine creating matchups between any MLB teams throughout baseball history. With MLB StatsAPI data and Google Gemini, you can.
scienceculture/heritage
Finalist
Revive
Revive brings back video games that can no longer be played, using only the gameplay footage that survives on YouTube.
culture/heritageagents
Gautam Anand, Prathyek Poojary, Suhurrith Adhikari
Finalist
Vibe Coding Collective
This is a permanent “Museum of Vibe Coding”, built by Vibe Coding Collective, an international nonprofit.
dev toolsculture/heritage
Dan Porder, Sofiia Matsiutsia, Uvin Withana +1