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7 wins, 2023–2026

Hackathons

7× hackathon winner. How I run them, 9 min read: Hackathons Are Just Presentations: How I Run Them After 7 Wins

Wins

  1. FRIDAY, HackMIT 2026, OpenAI 5th Teammate Challenge, 3rd place
  2. NutriGo, Anthropic Claude AI Hackathon 2026, 3rd place
  3. Simulacra, YHack Spring 2026, Best Use of K2 Think V2 (IFM), winner
  4. DeltaCRS, GitLab AI Hackathon 2026, Sustainable Design Bonus
  5. CERBERUS, EnergyHack@GT 2025, MLH Best Use of Gemini API, winner
  6. Ming, HackGT 12 (2025), MLH Best Use of Gemini API, winner
  7. Byte In, Solana Hyperdrive 2023, AI Track, 3rd place ($15K)

  1. HackMIT 2026

    OpenAI 5th Teammate Challenge, 3rd place

    ProjectFRIDAY

    A spatial analysis engine and agent harness that furnishes rooms with AI.

    SL in a blue HackMIT hoodie on the lawn in front of MIT’s Great Dome.
    MIT · Sep 2026
    Four friends in a group selfie at night outside a glass building, Boston.
    Boston · Sep 2026
    A group selfie under the slide “OpenAI: The Fifth Teammate”, which lists FRIDAY third.
    HackMIT · Sep 2026

  2. Anthropic Claude AI Hackathon 2026

    3rd place

    ProjectNutriGo

    A meal-photo card game with SMS meal logging, built by a team in three hours.

    The NutriGo team lifting SL sideways in front of the projector screen.
    Claude AI Hackathon · 2026
    The NutriGo team in matching caps under the slide “NutriGO. Eat. Snap. Battle.”
    Team NutriGo · 2026

  3. YHack Spring 2026

    Best Use of K2 Think V2 (IFM), winner

    ProjectSimulacra

    Paste a policy and watch a pixel-art city of AI agents react to it.

    Five people in front of the YHack closing-ceremony slide for Best Use of K2 Think V2, naming Simulacra the overall winner.
    New Haven · Mar 2026

  4. GitLab AI Hackathon 2026

    Sustainable Design Bonus

    ProjectDeltaCRS (Devpost)

    Security workflow inside GitLab: reads merge-request diffs, writes libFuzzer harnesses, triages sanitizer traces and proposes patches.

    SL and a teammate at a desk with a laptop open on DeltaCRS.
    GitLab AI Hackathon · 2026

  5. EnergyHack@GT 2025

    MLH Best Use of Gemini API, winner

    ProjectCERBERUS (Devpost)

    Power-telemetry analysis with Random Forest and HDBSCAN models, and Gemini agents for triage.

    A night football game at Georgia Tech, with the Atlanta skyline behind the stadium.
    Georgia Tech, Atlanta

  6. HackGT 12 (2025)

    MLH Best Use of Gemini API, winner

    ProjectMing

    Voice role-play for training managers, with multi-agent LLM characters.

    A collage from HackGT 12: the Ming team on stage, the team at work, and SL with an MLH organiser holding the prize keyboard.
    HackGT 12 · 2025

  7. Solana Hyperdrive 2023

    AI Track, 3rd place ($15K)

    ProjectByte In

    A mobile companion game that uses AI to gamify healthy diets.

How I run them

Writing · 9 min read

Hackathons Are Just Presentations: How I Run Them After 7 Wins

Seven hackathon wins, five of them in a row. The workflow I locked in after HackMIT, and why none of it matters if the judges don't get you.