The anniversary hackathon traditionally brought together young, ambitious, and creative inventors, who this year designed solutions in the field of smart military electronics to strengthen the country's resilience.
As Kyiv Polytechnic previously reported, at the end of the XIV Festival of Innovative Projects “Sikorsky Challenge 2025,” in accordance with its program and within the framework of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization's project “Global Innovation and Networking Program in Green Chemistry” (GreenChem), the Global Greenchem Hackathon 2025 was held from October 31 to November 2.
The VR Deminer's Lab hackathon brought together student teams who developed concepts, scenarios, and visual prototypes of VR/AR simulators for training sappers — solutions capable of improving the training process in accordance with professional standard 5169 “Explosive Ordnance Disposal Operator (Deminer)”.
🏆 More than 30 students from leading technical universities in Ukraine took part in the first youth hackathon dedicated to climate innovation and challenges, the Youth Climate Innovation Hackathon.
🏆 The team from the Educational and Scientific Mechanical Engineering Institute (ESMEI) won first place out of 123 teams from all over Ukraine in the second face-to-face stage of a large-scale hackathon organized by MHP, which took place at a processing complex in Ladyzhyn (Vinnytsia region).
Hackathon Melexis Future Innovators was held at Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute. The finalists of the hackathon had a difficult and interesting task.
On January 31, the Smart House System hackathon organized by the Faculty of Electronics of Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute and the top digital product development company GlobalLogic Ukraine took place in the cool Lampa electronics laboratory.
Participants of the IV All-Ukrainian Engineering Hackathon SmaRTF had the opportunity to try themselves in several categories: defensive, offensive, intelligence, rescue, security, training/educational (military training).
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Students of the Faculty of Electronics of Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute became one of the winners of the Jammer Hackathon, in which Ukrainian developers created electronic solutions to combat enemy drones.
At the end of May, the international hackathons Smart City Challenge and BioHackathon were held in Warsaw. They were organized by the Student Government of the Warsaw University of Technology, the Herbion Biotechnology Research Group of the Warsaw University of Technology, the Center for International Cooperation, and the student research groups Ventures and Startups and Innovation of the Warsaw School of Economics.
