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14 days ago

Meet the winners

Hi everyone,

Thank you for building with us. Over seven days, students from 70+ countries built projects across six tracks, and our judges had a hard time choosing. Here are the winners of ForgeHacks 2026.

OVERALL WINNERS

1st place: Prakira

2nd place: Aquapulse

3rd place: PayZen: Payment Proof Verifier

TRACK WINNERS

AI + Healthcare: Vaxchecks

AI + Climate: ReefSense

AI + Business: Lead Time

AI + Cybersecurity, sponsored by Agentboxd: SecondLook

AI + Creativity: IdeaForge

Each project can win one prize, so when a top three project also led its track, the track prize went to the next highest project in that track.

Congratulations to every winning team. We'll email each of you separately in the next few days about your prizes.

To everyone who submitted: finishing a project in seven days is a real accomplishment, whether or not it placed. Thank you to our judges and mentors for their time, and to our sponsors for making ForgeHacks possible: Adaption, Momen, n8n, Featherless AI, DevSwarm, Tin Computer, CodeCrafters, CleanShot, Art of Problem Solving, Perfect Corp, Agentboxd, Saily, Kariaa and ProjectAAL.

Keep building.

Sushanth, Ishaan. and Aarav

ForgeHacks

Questions?

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