Developing meaningful technical products that leverage AI to improve, enhance, or expand STEM education.

$34,996 in cash prize.

About the Challenge

DSH Hacks V1 is a global student competition open to students aged 13+ hosted collaboratively by three youth-led organizations: DeltaForge Hacks, NextHorizon, and STEMise.

Theme: AI x STEM Education

This event brings together young innovators from around the world to reimagine the future of STEM education through artificial intelligence.

Participants will work individually or in teams to design and develop a meaningful technical product that leverages AI to improve, enhance, or expand STEM education. Projects may range from machine learning tools that personalize learning pathways to computer vision systems for laboratory simulations, to AI-driven platforms that increase accessibility for underrepresented communities. Creativity, feasibility, technical depth, and real-world impact will be central to evaluation.

The theme of this competition is to create tools that help students learn STEM more effectively, interactively, and accessibly. These tools can be an app, a website, a simulation, a system, or an algorithm.

Participants are allowed to use AI to encourage them to build a meaningful solution in the realm of STEM education and to lower the technical barrier that imposes challenges for beginners with ambitious project ideas.

Get Started

Ask around and form a team! We highly recommend finding like-minded individuals around you to help make your ideas a reality!