About the challenge

UnivaBio is a global student competition open to students aged 13+ hosted collaboratively by BioCataalysis and UnivaDev in support of innovation at the intersection of healthcare and technology.

Theme: Artificial Intelligence for Human Health

This event specifically brings together young innovators from worldwide to explore AI technology’s role in human health. Working individually or in teams, participants will design and build a meaningful technical product that helps people detect illness earlier, understand it better, or live with it more easily.

Your project can take almost any form: an app, a website, a simulation, a system, or an algorithm. This can be an AI EdTech app teaching about specific health concepts, a classification model trained on imaging datasets, or an innovation that one wants to propose that has significant medical implications.

You are encouraged to use AI assistants while building. We want the technical barrier to be low enough that beginners with ambitious ideas can actually ship them. What matters is that you understand what you built and can explain it. Be prepared to walk judges through your own code.

Requirements

Submission Requirements

Project: Can be a website, app, or other coding prototypes that have user interaction capabilities.
Demo Video: Video explaining the purpose of the project, showcasing project features, and demonstrating how users interact with the prototype.
One Page Project Description in PDF format: A page describing the project purpose and key features.
Github Repository / Code PDF: PDF document showcasing all code developed towards the creation of the project.

Hackathon Sponsors

Prizes

5 non-cash prizes

1st Place

1 winner

Momen Credits ($2000 Value)

CodeCrafters 2 Yr Membership ($720 Value)

InterviewBuddy Credits ($70 Value)

Protoflow Credits ($300 Value)

Adaption Labs Credits ($800 Value)

2nd Place

1 winner

CodeCrafters 1 Yr Membership ($360 Value)

InterviewBuddy Credits ($45 Value)

Protoflow Credits ($150 Value)

Adaption Labs Credits ($800)

3rd Place

1 winner

CodeCrafters 6 Months Membership ($180 Value)

InterviewBuddy Credits ($45 Value)

Protoflow Credits ($75 Value)

Adaption Labs Credits ($800 Value)

Special Prize: Best No-code AI App built with Momen

1 winner

Momen Credits ($2000 Value)

Tin Computer Growth Credits

100 winners

⚠️ THIS IS NOT A CASH PRIZE. This award consists of sponsor-provided product credits, subscriptions, software licenses, domains, or other non-cash benefits and cannot be exchanged or redeemed for cash.

100 $299 Tin Computer Growth Credit ($29,900)

Judges

Sudheer Pratap
Lead Software Engineer

Aditya Shrivastava
Software Engineer at Barclays

Rupak Bose
Lead Researcher @ Qen Labs Inc

Nilesh Dhage
Director, Product Management

Gaurav Shah
Director-Staff Engineer at Fidelity Investments

Yaokai Jiang
Founder & CEO of Momen.app

Viraj Sabhaya
Associate Software Engineer, Altera Digital Health

Vincent Vu
Software Engineer at Paraform

Harris Bashir
Data & AI Engineer, Kidoz

Anudeep Bonagiri
CEO & Cofounder of Cruze Maps

Shrithik Senthilkumar
COO & Co-founder, Cruze Maps

Gediminas Jurgis Pažėra
AI Engineer

Sunil Divvela
Senior Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Aatish Dhami
Founding Engineer, StyleFrame AI

Andrew Silvanus
Head of Sales & Partnerships at Bayosthiti AI

Vishal Punjabi
Principal AI Scientist, SAP Labs

Alina Olefirenko
CTO

Mohammad Haris Zia
Founding Senior Product Engineer at Neurotone AI

Ratna Kumar Bonagiri
Staff Software Engineer

Ankur Bhatnagar
Enterprise Integration & API Architect

Kavitha Gopalakrishnan
Senior Product Manager, Google Labs

Saiprasad Charudatta Shrikhande
Senior Manager

Sanjay Singh
Staff Software Engineer at LinkedIn

Somiya Khan
Operations Engineer at Avantduo

Omer Dogan
CEO & Managing Director, Mono Apps

Sonal Harsh
Founder, Pavafetch

Ujwal Vanjare
Software Engineer at BNSF Railway

Akshay Talathi
Vice President of Software Engineering at Goldman Sachs

Roman Mukovnin
CTO & Co-founder of TWIG AI

Dulra Amolegbe
Co-founder | CEO, AgentStatus

Swapnil Gaikwad
Senior Software Development Engineer, Amazon

Yeswant Kumar Babulalji
Principal Consultant

Sandeep Vattikuti
Principal Software Engineeer

Ravi Shanker Thadishetti
Senior Software Engineer at PayPal

Oguzhan Karaca
Co-Founder/CEO at Derya (YC S26)

Dishank Jhaveri
Software Engineer at Hippocratic AI

Devyendar Maganti
Lead Platform Engineer at Prudential Financial

Bhagath Siddi
Senior Engineering Manager

Haripreeth Avarur
Graduate Researcher and MS Computer Science, University of Michigan

Aqsa Kanwal
iCodeGuru Trainer & Community Moderator

Sharoon Babu
Lead AI Engineer at Gartner

Judging Criteria

Idea & Innovation
Did the proposal address a real problem within the theme? Was the idea innovative? Can this be meaningfully different from other things that exist already?
Implementation
Does the solution work? Did the team achieve everything they wanted? How technically challenging/impressive was the implementation?
Health Impact & Rigor
Who is this for, and would it actually help them? Is there great potential?
Design & Usability
Did the team put thought into the user experience? How well designed is the interface?
Presentation
Is the problem clearly defined? Does the demo show the thing actually working? Is the team honest about what's finished versus planned?