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📅 Friday, Feb 27, 2026 | 4:00PM – 11PM
📍 Penn State | Engineering Design and Innovation Building (EDI)
🍔 Food and drinks provided!
Transpose Platform is partnering with Penn State Engineering Entrepreneurship to bring the energy of a San Francisco hackathon straight to University Park!
We are giving away $7,500+ in cash prizes and access to top-tier YC founders, all in one Friday night.
Challenge: AI for Productivity and Research
Generative AI’s potential impact is especially exciting in two broad categories: productivity and research.
In productivity, it helps people move faster, automating existing workflows and building new ones.
In research, it helps generate new knowledge, speeding up the path from idea to result and pushing frontiers.
We're also excited about applications in education– a domain that in many ways blends productivity and research together.
There's lots to build!
Scientific Research: Tools to speed up lab workflows or analyze complex datasets.
Productivity: Consumer apps that free up tedious planning, booking, and more.
Education: Personalized, multi-modal tutors that make learning accessible.
$ 7500+ Prize Pool
🥇1st Place: $3,000
🥈2nd Place: $1,500
🥉3rd Place: $500
💡Special Tracks ($2,500): Sponsored by Penn State Engineering Entrepreneurship
Important!
You must be registered on Luma to attend the event!
We encourage you to form teams ahead of time (make sure all your teammates sign up), but you'll also have a chance to meet people at the start of the event.
Judges
Henry Kwon (CTO, Lyra)
Abejith Murali (CEO, Steadwing)
Shaurya Pednekar (Founding Engineer, Undermind)
Professor Brad Groznik (Professor, Engineering Entrepreneurship)
Professor Ted Graef (Director, Engineering Entrepreneurship)