135 students from many schools built 39 apps in one room
The Data & AI track hackathon of the 2026 AI Donghaeng Project. Middle and high schoolers from different regions gathered at Hanyang University, built an app per team around fair and safe AI, and looked around each other's work in a gallery walk.
Two days, any major: 40 Daegu University students built 13 apps
A vibe coding hackathon Daegu University's SW-Centered University program opened to every enrolled student. Of the 13 teams that stayed up all night in Gyeongju, ‘모DU모아’, which helps students find teammates for campus competitions, won the grand prize.
The day 148 informatics teachers built their own classroom tools
On day two of the training in Seoul and in Busan, informatics teachers picked the problems that had always nagged at them in class and built them into AI teaching tools. 190 projects were published across five tracks.
A vibe coding hackathon run by a state office of education: 112 students, 28 apps in a day
The AI Creative Challenge Camp the Jeonbuk State Office of Education ran across the province. It is not a contest about writing the code yourself but one about building by talking with an AI, so all 28 teams finished an app of their own — including students who had never studied programming.
2,000 students nationwide, one overnight hackathon
Jitda ran four straight months of the national youth SW·AI competition hosted by Hanyang University ERICA — recruiting, judging, and the results announcement. The Jitda dashboard tracked all 2,000 in real time.
From a cancer-treatment game to semiconductor cooling — 22 apps built by high schoolers
The 77 students at Cheongju Daeseong picked their own topics. Drug delivery systems, HBM cooling, photocatalysts for artificial photosynthesis — two hours of learning one evening, and working apps by the next morning.
Six hours, and ten real apps built by middle-school girls
Students at Gwangju Dongshin built working web apps around the environment, safety, health, and multicultural families. The winning project wired in national police open data.