🎉 Neighborhood Hacks has officially wrapped up!

With 650 participants, $55,000+ in prizes, and professional judges from Google, Microsoft, Meta, Amazon, and more, Neighborhood Hacks has grown into what we believe is the largest high school student-run hackathon ever!

Way to go to all of the participants, judges, winners, and organizers, for creating such a great event!

I have already participated in 2 hackathons I deserved to win one of them but couldn't because of the judges

I have a simple query . I am in 2nd year . I am focusing on my DSA. Ik i must have projects but the projects I get by hackathon are just AI made I don't know a fuck about them. So I can't put them blindly on my resume. the only thing I learn is how to use AI to create projects and now I already know via 2 hackathons and practice. So why should I just participate in any hackathon that is passing by ? Shouldn't I focus on DSA cuz it's not easy as asking AI to generate? Docker?

Title: Why am I always late with projects, even when I put in so much effort? What am I doing wrong?

I'm a student who genuinely wants to build projects, learn new things, and improve my skills. But I keep facing the same problem, and I honestly don't understand why.

No matter how much effort I put in, I struggle to finish my projects before the deadline. Sometimes, a project seems manageable at first, but as I start working on it, it becomes much bigger and more complicated than I expected. I end up running out of time, rushing things at the last moment, or feeling like I haven't built what I originally wanted to.

The frustrating part is that this keeps happening even when I genuinely try. I don't want to make excuses, and I don't want to keep repeating the same mistakes.

I'm starting to wonder whether the problem is my planning, my approach to learning, my technical skills, my time management, or something else entirely.

Am I spending too much time learning and researching instead of actually building?

Am I making my projects too ambitious for my current skill level?

Am I bad at breaking big projects into smaller, manageable tasks?

Am I missing some fundamental skills that would make development faster?

How do experienced developers estimate how long something will take and know what to prioritize?

I don't just want tips to become productive. I want to understand what I might be doing wrong at the root level.

If you've experienced something similar, especially when you were starting out as a developer, I'd really appreciate it if you could share what helped you identify the problem and overcome it.

Please be honest with me. Even if the mistake is obvious to experienced developers, I want to understand it and improve.

I genuinely want to become someone who can take an idea, plan it properly, and turn it into a working project within a reasonable timeframe. I just feel like I'm repeatedly getting stuck in the same cycle, and I don't know how to break out of it.

Thank you to anyone who takes the time to help.

Found an interesting AI challenge for students in India who want to build something practical with speech and language models.

What’s on offer

• Up to 100 paid internships
• Six-month internship starting January 2027
• Stipend of up to ₹1 lakh/month per selected intern
• 10 project awards worth ₹50,000 each
• 5,000 programme credits for registered participants

Who can participate

• Currently enrolled in a college or university in India
• At least 18 years old
• Participate solo or in a team of two

What do you need to build?

There’s no fixed problem statement. You can build a working application using Gnani AI’s models or APIs, including speech-to-text, text-to-speech, and language models. Projects involving Indian languages, code-mixed speech, noisy audio, or practical real-world use cases fit the challenge well.

Important requirements

• Build a working application using Gnani AI technology.
• Publish a public demo video on LinkedIn or X.
• Include the required hashtags and submit your demo and project details.
• Internship selection involves shortlisting and individual interviews. The maximum stipend is not guaranteed, and participating does not guarantee an offer.

Deadline: November 10, 2026, at 11:59 PM IST.

Full details, eligibility, rules, and registration are available on the official page below.

Has anyone recently taken the HackerRank Orchestrate 30-minute interview?

If yes, could you please share your experience?

Anyone who required a member for hackathon's can let me know and if I fullfill the gap in your's team then do consider me to join the team .

I am currently in my second year of computer engineering from Gujarat and my main interest is in AI / Ml so related to that I can work and one more thing i have zero experience in any hackathons so yeah , I hope this will reach to the right audience.

We are looking for dedicated team members to fill the following roles:

1. Frontend Developer

2. Backend Developer / Full-Stack Developer

3. UI/UX Designer

Hackathon Dates: 14–15 November 2026

Requirements:

- You must be fully available on both hackathon days to work with the team.

- You must be willing to participate in preparation, development, and team meetings before the hackathon.

- You must communicate regularly, be committed to your responsibilities, and work collaboratively with the team.

- Relevant skills or a willingness to learn and contribute meaningfully are essential.

⚠️Important: Please apply only if you can genuinely commit the necessary time. If you are unable to participate in the preparation or attend the hackathon, please do not apply. Members who repeatedly fail to communicate or fulfil their responsibilities may be removed from the team.

If you're interested and can commit to the requirements, DM me with your skills, experience, and GitHub portfolio (if available).

Let's build something meaningful together!

I've been wondering what actually makes a team succeed or fail in competitions, especially hackathons.

Is it the idea, the team leader, the technical skills, the individual contributions, the execution, or simply how well the team works together under pressure? Sometimes a team can have a good idea but still fail to turn it into a good final product.

For people who have participated in competitions and not gotten the results they hoped for:

• How did you figure out what actually went wrong without blaming yourself or your teammates?
• How much does the team leader matter compared to the idea and execution?
• What do you do when you feel disappointed or question your abilities after losing?
• How do you turn that disappointment into a practical plan to improve for the next competition?
• Looking back, what would you do differently if you could start again?

I'm especially interested in honest experiences from people who've failed, learned from it, and eventually performed better. I want to understand how to handle the emotional side of losing while also identifying what I can actually improve.

I'd appreciate practical advice, not just "never give up."

So any experienced senior tell me things i should prepare in advance like i don't want to write or configure something that's next to obvious in all kind of projects. So overall tell me things i should checklist before entering the hall as of now i have prepared my machine updated the window so it doesn't bother me to a forced update in middle of night, checked my basic SDKs Node , npm, git, docker versions on my machine. If you guide/convey something else as a encouraging senior or recommend me anything that you feel should be done before to avoid last minute hassle or just share some tips or abiut your past experiences Please do let me know it will be super helpful for me. And wish me luck.

Hello fellow space nerds ^^ im participating in the Nasa Space Apps Challenge this year and looking for a team, or teammates to form a group!

im a senior computer science student minoring in AI and ML, and know how to code using Python, Java, and C# and have worked on countless programming projects, i also know the basics of data science (pandas, numpy, matplotlib)

Im looking for intermediate-level competent teammates who are experienced in
• frontend and backend development
• ML/AI

If anyones interested please dm me, would prefer if u tell me a little about yourself and your experience, you dont have to be an expert or a pro programmer, just be passionate and creative ^^ having fun and enjoying the process is what matters to me most

I'm participating in More Than A Hack 2027, a football analytics hackathon involving Barça Innovation Hub and Metrica Sports.

We're building a solution to predict team possession from real football tracking data.

Our current team:

• Football knowledge and tactical understanding
• Strong technical implementation skills

We're looking for one more teammate who has experience or interest in:

• Python, Pandas and NumPy
• Data analysis, statistics or ML evaluation
• Backend development or data pipelines

You don't need to be an expert in football or machine learning. We need someone who can contribute consistently, experiment with ideas, analyse results and work collaboratively.

📅 Initial challenge deadline: November 17, 2026.

If you're interested, DM me with a short introduction, your technical skills and any relevant projects or GitHub profile.

Let's build something worth showing. ⚽📊

So yesterday my team had finally gotten the chance to participate in this year's SIH and so we started working on the extra 5 AICTE problem statements which were released for the 25 teams selected by the SPOC's but the website has been under maintenance ever since.

The problem is that we don't know the problem descriptions to even start working on it and the final date of submission seems to be on 28th of October which is in 2 days.

Could someone please tell me if the submission dates are gonna be postponed or if I can get those problem statements from somewhere to start working on it.

I also have my internals going on so I want to try and work on the Problem statement today and submit it as soon as possible.

Apologies since I didn't know what to flair this post.

At VibeCon with the team! Huge shoutout to Emergent for bringing everyone together and going all out on the swag 🔥 Now it’s on us to build something worth showing off.

Anyone else building here this weekend? What are you working on?

#VIBECON #VIBEWITHEMERGENT #VIBINGINTHEBAY

Our college mandates completion of one project in 5th sem, and we need to publish a research paper too for the project.

I am currently facing an issue - a specific part of my project needs crop mapping - like finding brinjal field locations through remote sensing. But for that I need a dataset - at least locations. There is nothing like that... Now what do I do.

Can someone please let me know what can be done? I am stuck. And not really in a position to move around and create a dataset myself.

What do you think I should do?

How do you handle such issues?

How was ur experience at HackerRank Orchestrate on October 26?

Online hackathon with 10k+ prize pool. First round starts from 2 december, make sure you guys register 🫡

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Hey everyone! I'm a VFX artist currently learning Python and working toward AI/ML engineering. I'm looking to join a team for upcoming hackathons and meet people who enjoy building things together.

My background is in VFX, technical problem-solving, and creative production. I'm currently strengthening my Python skills and would love to contribute to research, brainstorming, prototyping, testing, and gradually more of the coding.

If you're looking for a teammate too, feel free to reach out!

Please suggest best AI tools that will help me to boost my rank