Resources

Competitions and Hackathons

Hackathons, datathons, and pitch competitions open to medical students.

Listed soonest first. Dates are approximate unless a full date is shown, so check each organizer's site before you apply.

MIT Grand Hack
 

People from every background form teams and build new health projects over several days.

Cornell Health AI Hackathon
 

A weekend of rapid prototyping with AI and extended reality (XR), with guidance from industry experts.

Harvard Health Systems Innovation Lab Hackathon
 

Teams build AI-based solutions to problems in health systems.

AMSA InnoFest
 

Medical and pre-medical students pitch ideas that improve access to care and health equity.

MD+ Datathon
 

A month-long national competition, held online, on using technology to solve problems in health care.

Columbia AI for Health Equity Design Sprint
 

Teams work with synthetic datasets modeled on real problems from partner organizations. It ends with project presentations and awards for technical work, ethics, and community engagement.