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about 2 months ago

Winner Update

Also posted in #general on Slack   WiCS × Opportunity Hack Spring 2026 — WIAL Problem Statement Winner Update #2026-asu-wics

As part of our standard post-hackathon audit process at Opportunity Hack, we review all submissions to ensure they align with our core mission: delivering working, deployable solutions that nonprofits can actually use.

After completing this review for the WIAL problem statement, we’re announcing the following:

  • GlobeWIAL #team-14-quadcoders will keep the monitors they received during the hackathon as their prize. The judges recognized their strong presentation, polished UI, and thoughtful accessibility features and we agree those are real strengths.  As part of our audit process reviewing the DevPost and GitHub code after the hackathon, we’re unable to see a direct correlation between this work and the judging criteria around Polish and Scope.  The judges were unable to ask questions during the hackathon, and moving forward we’ll ensure we both scan code repos and ensure time for judges to ask questions - we want to get this right during the hackathon.
 
At Opportunity Hack, we believe a great hackathon project isn’t just a great demo, it’s a foundation that a nonprofit can build on. Scope, completeness, and production-readiness matter as much as polish.

With that in mind, NaNpossible will also receive the full prize package (monitors + prize money) as co-winners for the WIAL problem statement.

Congratulations to both teams. We’re excited to work with you on the next steps toward getting WIAL a solution they can use.  We’ll move forward in working with #team-03-nanpossible to get this solution delivered to #npo-world-institute-for-action-learning @Jonathan Kenger [Nonprofit - WIAL] and @Mark Relova

— Opportunity Hack Team