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Hurricane Hackathon
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Support Hurricane Hackathon II

Fall 2026 · The University of Tulsa

The inaugural run, by the numbers

29
Registered
17
Attended
9
Projects Shipped

Twenty-four hours. Over a thousand dollars in cash prizes plus hardware and gift cards. A majority of attendees were first-time hackers; the mix spanned sophomores through PhDs.

88% chose Anthropic Claude credits
AI tooling allocation, n=17 attendees

What they built — top three

🏆 1st Place · $500
Black Gold — The 2030 Trust Engine
Vusal Karimov · Rupesh Sah
An enterprise B2B cybersecurity solution that detects AI voice cloning on live telecom audio in under 100 milliseconds.
🥈 2nd Place · $300
Hokage — Apex AR — The Future of Racing Monitoring
Soroush Karimi
Live F1 telemetry rendered as a tabletop AR sculpture on iOS — ARKit + RealityKit + real OpenF1 data.
🥉 3rd Place · $200
Team Lava Chicken — Slopularity
Sahara Smith · Ty DeVito
A satirical "everything app" built by and for AI — that slowly breaks down the more you use it.
See all 10 projects, photos, and demos

2026 Sponsors

Sponsor HH II — Fall 2026

Tiered sponsorship, with logo placement and recognition scaling per tier. We'll also work with you to design a custom partnership if none of the standard tiers fits — get in touch.

Silver
$100
  • Name listed on event page
  • Thank-you in closing comms
Gold
$500
  • Logo on event page
  • Recognition during closing ceremony
  • Thank-you in all comms
Platinum
$1,500
  • Logo prominently at event
  • Half-day event presence (table / mentor / observer)
  • Recognition during ceremony
  • Thank-you in all comms
Unobtanium
$5,000+
  • Top-tier logo placement
  • Event-shaping and collaboration opportunities — inquire for details
  • Full event presence
  • Featured in opening & closing
  • Opt-in recruiting access to participants
  • Demo space at HH II

Why Support the Hurricane Hackathon?

Tulsa-grown talent. Real working AI projects in 24 hours. A student-led program with a track record after one year and an expanding sponsor base — your support directly funds the prize pool, AI-tooling credits, food and operations for the event.

Hurricane Hackathon II is being planned for Fall 2026, with expanded scope, a longer recruitment runway, and growing engagement from TU faculty and national tech-co partners. Your sponsorship anchors the program at the level the College and the region deserve.

Get in touch

Reach out and we'll set up a 15-minute call to scope the right partnership.

or write directly to aiml.club@utulsa.edu