Hackathons

SF Hacks 2026 (SFSU) · 2026

OceanGuard

An AI system that plans ocean cleanups autonomously — given pollution data, it decides where to send crews, contacts sites, posts job listings, and handles donations. Paired with a school-vs-school sustainability scoreboard, and an on-chain Solana donation system for funding cleanup supplies with verifiable transactions.

Team: Dhruv Vootkuri, Arya Cherukuri, Ryan Saleh

CruzHacks · 2026

Autonomous Drone Delivery

A 36-hour build exploring fully autonomous drone delivery across neighborhoods and college campuses — simulated LiDAR/GPS/IMU flight in Microsoft AirSim, an n8n-driven AI health consultant tied to orders, and a Solana-based campus payment system.

Team: Utkarsh Banka, Mitansh Mittal

SCU ACM x AWS x INRIX Hackathon · 2025

Aerobytes

A 24-hour build combining a UCSC-dining food ordering concept with drone delivery — a simulation-first workflow in AirSim (Unreal Engine) using real-world geospatial data to find safe, obstruction-free landing zones, with LiDAR emulation and the PX4 flight-control stack, built as a freshman.

Team: Mitansh Mittal, Sean Cajigal, Varun Madhan Kumar, Jonathan Cheung

Hack For Humanity 2026 · 2026

Riptide

An AI-powered platform combining real-time data, drone simulations, and crowdsourcing to combat sea pollution — informing people and coordinating community cleanup action.

Team: Mitansh Mittal, Arnav Agarwal, Arunachalam Kasi, Pranay Kancharla, Ryan Saleh

Bay Area Hacks · 2026

GeoGuide

A tourist-attraction discovery app — explore, search, and filter destinations with real-time maps and user reviews to plan a trip.

Team: Abyan Kashif, Aadi Patwardhan, Vakshith Hemanth, Ryan Saleh, Ashmit Sethi

OpenClaw Hack Day (AWS, San Francisco) · 2026

ReplayAI

An OpenClaw skill that records AI agent execution traces and lets you replay them with fixes applied — letting developers fork a failed run at the point of failure and preview a correction.

Team: Arya Cherukuri, Dhruv Vootkuri

SCU Product Club x Jolli AI Hackathon · 2026

Go-to-Market Strategy for Jolli AI

A 2-hour, no-code product hackathon: developing a go-to-market strategy for Jolli AI's connected knowledge platform, pitched live to Jolli AI's CEO.

Team: Raghav Gupta, Dhruv Vootkuri

NVIDIA AI Agents for Impact Hackathon · 2025

Bronco Access Agent

A RAG-based conversational assistant helping SCU students find campus support resources. First hackathon — didn't place, but a deliberate learning experience on balancing simple and creative execution.

Team: Oliver Rowe-Bardeen, Aidan Miranda

Tri-Valley Hacks · 2025

Project details being filled in — award is listed on Shikhar's resume.

Learn It Global Hackathon V2 · 2025

Project details being filled in — awards are listed on Shikhar's resume.