Past Events
Crimson Hacks
University of Utah's largest hackathon with a Mission to Mars theme.
120Builders
$2KIn Prizes
October 24 2025
Winners:
- Best Overall: Team Rover-Q- Full-stack app demonstrating Q-learning to solve mazes
- Best Technical Implementation: Josh Gimenez- Built Marvis, a camera HUD that performs object detection, displays components on screen, and can be created and updated with voice commands
- Best Game: Team Jim's Angels- Catstronaut, a video game where a cat solves LeetCode problems
- Best UX/UI: Team The Unemployed- Hand-drawn interface paired with an original soundtrack and storyline
- Best Use of AI/ML: Team Weather Predictions- Binary classification model on NASA Mars rover imagery to predict clear weather
- Most Ambitious Concept: Team Utah Robotics- Depth-camera powered KNN surface reconstruction tested in Unity for rocket landings
- Funniest/Wildest: Team MarsCam- Camera filters and backgrounds transforming participants into aliens with space accessories
Agent Hackathon
Build AI agents to solve real-world problems.
65Builders
$5KIn Prizes
August 16 2025
Winners:
- 1st: Ben Woodward- AI agent that auto-schedules doctor appointments across multiple offices (inspired by grandpa with dementia)
- 2nd: Josh Gimenez- Phone agent that controls devices via text commands - navigated Hinge and took selfie autonomously
- 3rd: Jazzi Brensan, Zach Martim, David Pineda- Product Pre-launch: AI agents simulating customer personas to predict product launch success
May Revenue Race
Build and ship a product that earns real revenue in one month.
40Builders
$50KIn Prizes
May 3 – 31 2025
Winners:
- Anonymous- Emotional Map (GPT extension for therapy)
- Alexander- Permitify (AI-powered plan review for architects and engineers)
- Jason- yolomode.ai (AI video content generator)
- Lily- RoomVamp (AI-powered room planner)
- Shaik Mohd Huzaifa- Spoom (All in one tool to connect chat, tools, and data)
- Andrew Lund & Thomas Lund- Misto (Software Tool for Farmers Market Vendors)
Manus Meetup Provo
Find the best or most innovative use case for Manus AI.
78Builders
$50KIn Prizes
May 29 2025
Winners:
- 1st: Ben Fife and Russel Fife- Used Manus to manage Google Cloud, built 2 video games
- 2nd: Jens Shumway- Stock Analyzer Dashboard
- 3rd: Michael Davis- Startup idea generation from patent scraping
Multi-Modal AI Hackathon
Build with audio, image, video, and text AI models.
44Builders
$1KIn Prizes
March 8 2025
Winners:
- 1st: Tristan Rhodes & Team OmniVision- Real-time video recognition
- 2nd: Matt Wood- RealReal (LLM workflow builder)
- 3rd (Tie): Jack Saller- Music generation via hand video recognition
- 3rd (Tie): Jeffrey Olmo- Spotify playlist generation from image
Utah Tech Week's Shortest Hackathon
2-hour hackathon. Build, demo, win.
65Builders
$4KIn Prizes
January 29 2025
Winners:
- 1st: Jake Gibson- Dynamic Pokemon Go with AI
- 2nd: Beric Bearnson- Chat app on microprocessors
- 3rd: Nate Kelley- Collaborative 20 Questions game
JustBuild Kickoff Hackathon
24-hour hackathon. Kickoff event.
39Builders
$3KIn Prizes
December 6 2024
Winners:
- 1st: Taeyang Kim, Jonghyuk Lee, Taehoon Kim, Yirang Lim- Remi 2.0 (AI Roofing Analysis & Marketing)
- 2nd: Josh Gimenes- AI Course Builder (Web/Android/iOS)
- 3rd: Chandler J. Ward- AI Roof Analyzer (RoboFlow Vision Model)
- Best UX/UI: Travisse Hansen- AI Body Fat Analyzer & Physique Upsell
- Most Practical AI: Ben Cullen, Collin McGregor, Sawyer Halverson- Leet-Coach (AI Leetcode Coach)