1st Place — $500
The 2030 Trust Engine
Black Gold
Vusal Karimov · Rupesh Sah
An enterprise B2B cybersecurity solution that detects AI voice cloning on live telecom audio in under 100ms.
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The 2030 Trust Engine is an enterprise-grade B2B cybersecurity solution designed to protect telecommunications networks from the escalating threat of AI voice cloning. Built on a hyper-optimized XGBoost architecture, it analyzes live audio packets in under 100 milliseconds using 40-dimensional acoustic fingerprinting to identify synthetic frequency artifacts. Crucially, it goes beyond standard audio detection by incorporating a proprietary "Biological Liveness Monitor" that measures the acoustic energy envelope to verify natural human breathing rhythms, effectively neutralizing deepfake scams at the network edge before a conversation even begins.
2nd Place — $300
Apex AR
Hokage
Soroush Karimi
Apex AR — The Future of Racing Monitoring. Live F1 telemetry as a tabletop AR sculpture on iOS.
3rd Place — $200
Slopularity
Team Lava Chicken
Sahara Smith · Ty DeVito
A satirical "everything app" built by and for AI — that slowly breaks down the more you use it. A meditation on dead-internet theory, attention economics, and enslopification.
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The Slopularity is the final website, built by and for AI. As the internet shrinks into fewer platforms and algorithmic engagement farming, Slopularity promises to replace it all: search, shopping, social media, productivity, identity, files, entertainment, and an assistant that is certainly helpful and useful always.
At first, it looks like the perfect everything app. But the more you use it, the more it starts to break. Features contradict each other, panels duplicate, recommendations decay, panels duplicate, and the site slowly breaks down, revealing what happens when technology is carelessly thrown together and optimized for engagement, data, automation, data harvesting, data collection, engagement, data harvesting, data collection, engagement, engagement, data harvesting, and engagement instead of actual human value.
Our project is a satire emphasizing the dead internet theory, attention economics, AI-generated content (both good and bad!), data privacy, enslopification, and the strange future of tools trained on tools and AI trained on AI. AI can be useful, but technology is supposed to serve people. Slopularity asks what happens if we forget that.
Runner Up — Flipper Zero
RealityCheck
Wonder Guard
Bristie Rahman · Mahin Moon · Jonah Sanders
A browser-based misinformation detection tool — "Shazam for disinformation" — that scores text, images, video, and audio for manipulation indicators.
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RealityCheck is a browser-based misinformation detection tool, think "Shazam for disinformation." It analyzes media across four modalities: text (11 heuristic signals including emotional manipulation, vague sourcing, logical fallacies, and AI-generated language patterns), images (EXIF metadata parsing plus GAN fingerprinting to detect AI-generated photos), video (frame-by-frame deepfake indicator analysis), and audio (spectral analysis for voice cloning detection). Every analysis produces a 0-100 trust score, a verdict, and an Explainable AI card that names the specific manipulation technique used, not just a number but a reason. It optionally connects to a Groq API key for LLaMA 3-powered AI enhancement on top of the heuristics. Beyond analysis, it has a Crisis Mode that pulls live breaking-news headlines from the GDELT Project organized by threat category (elections, health, finance, disaster), a Community voting system with reputation-weighted consensus, an AI Assistant for fact-checking guidance, and a Media Literacy Hub for education. Additional features include text signal highlighting with flagged phrases color-coded in the original text, one-click reverse image search links, a simulated Report to Platform flow, and a PWA manifest so it installs on mobile and appears in Android's native share sheet, meaning users can share suspicious content directly from WhatsApp or any app straight into RealityCheck for an instant verdict.
Runner Up — Arduino Uno Q
C.O.D.I.
The Job Seekers
Trinyon Gaylor · Ethan Tarkington · Ayden Whittaker
VoiceVerify — a real-vs-AI audio classifier that scores upload clips on breath gaps, spectral texture, energy dynamics, and pitch jitter.
Runner Up — Raspberry Pi Zero W
GeopoliSport
GeopoliSport
Aiman Fariz Zaqwan Bin Akmal Hizam
An AI-powered simulation that models how global sporting events shape and are shaped by geopolitics — generating stakeholder maps, risk matrices, and soft-power scores.
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GeopoliSport is an AI-powered simulation platform that explores how global sporting events shape, and are shaped, by geopolitics.
By modeling scenarios such as the World Cup or Olympics hosted in different countries, GeopoliSport analyzes how factors like human rights scrutiny, athlete activism, and sponsor sensitivity influence stakeholder behavior, global narratives, and soft power outcomes.
The system combines real-world geopolitical context by pulling from a news API, with large language model reasoning to generate: Stakeholder impact maps, Risk matrices and pressure points, Scenario forks and timelines, Strategic recommendations, Soft power impact scores.
Users can dynamically adjust key variables and instantly observe how small changes lead to different geopolitical trajectories, enabling counterfactual analysis and scenario planning. Designed for policymakers, analysts, journalists, and organizations, GeopoliSport transforms complex global dynamics into an interactive decision-intelligence tool — helping users understand not just what might happen, but why it matters.
Aligned with the theme "2030 and Beyond — A Call to Imagine," GeopoliSport envisions a future where AI augments our ability to anticipate and navigate the intersection of sport, politics, and global influence.
Honorable Mention
Commonality
Boom
Atley Wright · Travis Sempel
An anonymous, text-only conversation app designed to reduce divisiveness by helping people meet through shared traits before discussing one meaningful difference.
Honorable Mention
LIMEN — The grammar of dying
Barbie
Saima Ahmed Rahin
Treats catastrophic failure as a grammar problem: as ecosystems, markets, brains, and democracies collapse, their generative complexity simplifies down the Chomsky Hierarchy. LIMEN reads that descent in real time.
Honorable Mention
DigiVault
Vault
Wellington Gwavava
A browser-based mirror-and-shield for your digital twin: maps your public footprint, checks 15B+ breached records, and produces a colour-coded DigiScore plus a Claude-powered action plan.
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By 2030, every person will have a digital twin living online — across social platforms, data broker sites, news archives, and breach databases. Most people have never seen what their twin looks like, or what doors it's leaving open for identity thieves.
DigiVault gives you a mirror and a shield. Enter your name and email — DigiVault maps your entire public digital footprint across LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, Google, and data broker sites, checks your email against 15+ billion breached records, and generates your DigiScore — a colour-coded threat level showing exactly how exposed you are: LOW, MEDIUM, HIGH, or CRITICAL. A Claude-powered AI then delivers a personalised action plan to lock it down.
No servers. No accounts. No data stored. Everything runs in your browser.
DigiVault — know your digital self. Protect it.
Honorable Mention
Diabetes Risk Quiz
Hannah D
Hannah D'Cruz
A decision-tree-driven diabetes risk assessment quiz.
