AnimalHack 2025
Date: September, 2025
Who
We are a group of students from the Boston, New York and Seattle areas who were disappointed with the lack of international, open hackathons that focus on animals, so we started our own.
AnimalHack is hosted by Binnovative, a nonprofit organization in Massachusetts.
About
AnimalHack is an online hackathon for anyone who interacts with any animals – including pets, service animals, farm animals and wild animals.
AnimalHack offers a platform that inspires you to think of needs, wants and challenges in interacting with animals. It is intended to help you ignite creative solutions (hacks) with technology and innovate human-animal relationships.
Overview
Event: September, EST
Project submission due: September, EST
Participants: Solo and team contestants
Background: Anyone of all ages and all technical skills, from limited experience to advanced.
Entry: Free
Merchandise: Apparel and mug cups
Expected Project Topics
Expected project topics include, but are not limited to:
- Contributing to animal wellbeing
- Assisting animal owners
- Assisting animal adoptions
- Monitoring, conserving and improving the environment around animals
- Observing, tracing and protecting wild animals
- Breeding, rearing/farming and harvesting animals
- Managing nuisance issues with wildlife
- Addressing animal abuse, cruelty and illegal capture/trade
Solutions can take many different forms such as apps, games, social platforms, web sites/services, devices, robots, data collection/storage, data analysis/forecasts, data visualization, information retrieval, and 3-dimensional modeling/printing.