Welcome to SaugaHacks 2026! 🚀
SaugaHacks is Mississauga's youth hackathon, bringing together high school students to build, collaborate, and turn ideas into real projects.
Over 12 hours, teams of 2 - 3 students will identify a problem, develop a solution, build a working prototype, and pitch their project to a panel of judges.
You don't need to be an experienced programmer to participate. Whether you're interested in coding, design, entrepreneurship, engineering, or simply solving problems, SaugaHacks is an opportunity to learn something new and create something you're proud of.
Come with an idea, or discover one with your teammates.
Innovation. Creativity. Community.
Requirements
Choose a problem that matters to you, your school, your community, or the world around you, and create a technology-based solution.
Your project could be a:
- Website or web application
- Mobile application
- Game
- AI-powered tool
- Educational platform
- Productivity tool
- Hardware or IoT prototype
- Data-driven application
- Accessibility solution
- Environmental or community-focused technology
- Something completely different
There is no required theme. We want teams to have the freedom to identify problems they care about and develop creative solutions.
Projects should be created primarily during the hackathon. Using existing libraries, APIs, frameworks, open-source tools, and development platforms is allowed.
Don't focus on making something huge. Focus on making something useful, creative, and well executed.
What to SubmitEach team must submit one Devpost project containing:
Project Name
Give your project a memorable name.
Project Description
Explain the problem you identified, your solution, and who it helps.
How It Works
Briefly explain the main features and how someone would use your project.
Technologies Used
List the languages, frameworks, APIs, hardware, AI tools, databases, or other technologies you used.
Demo
Provide either a working project link or a short demonstration video showing your project in action.
Source Code
Provide a link to your project's source-code repository, such as GitHub. (You can make this optional instead if you don't want to require teams to publicly release their code.)
Team Members
Include all 2 - 3 members who contributed to the project.
Teams should also be prepared to give a short live pitch/demo to the judges.
Prizes
Headphones
headphones from sponsor
Devpost Achievements
Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:
Judges
Rugved Shinde
Judging Criteria
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Functionality
Questions? Email the hackathon manager
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