Homecoming AI Educate Hackathon

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🛑 School is back. The tools that will actually teach are being built this weekend.Every classroom, every campus, every learner is asking the same question in 2026: what does AI change about how we teach and learn? Not the demos. The daily work. Homework, feedback loops, attention, mastery, motivation.Building a chatbot is easy. Building a tool a teacher adopts twice is the hard part. This weekend we build for the students, teachers, and administrators who show up Monday morning.🛠️ Join our Discord for credits, team formation, and support: https://discord.gg/cswGFwFumn — 1-2 Builders per team📅 Schedule9:00 AM Check-in & Breakfast10:00 – 11:00 AM Opening Remarks and workshops11:00 AM Build12:00 PM Lunch1:00 PM Build4:00 PM Hard submission deadline4:00 – 5:00 PM Demos (3 min limit)5:00 PM 🏆 Audience voting and award ceremonyFocus Tracks🎓 Track 1 · Teacher-Facing ToolsGrading, lesson planning, formative feedback, IEP drafting, differentiation. Build something a real teacher would use twice.📚 Track 2 · Student LearningHomework helpers that don't just answer, that teach. Spaced repetition. Bloom's taxonomy in practice. Show retention, not just "helpfulness."🧠 Track 3 · Learning Science in the LoopInterventions grounded in cognitive science. Metacognition scaffolds, distributed practice, active recall. Bring the research citations.🃏 Wildcard (Open Category)Any concept that doesn't fit the tracks above. If it solves a real problem in education, build it.🏆 Prizes and Bounties1st $600 | 2nd $500 | 3rd $400🤝 Featured Partners & Developer PerksPartners TBA. Full list of vendor credits, promo codes, and dedicated support channels will be announced in the pre-event email and posted in Discord.