Spooky Civic AI Hackathon: Demo Day
Hosted by 3percentclub + Ruth Miller-Leon + Maria Ashby + Sahar Mor (Bond AI) + The AI Collective + AJ Green + Mishelle
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What to look forward to
The Spooky Civic AI Hackathon Demo Day will showcase teams’ one-weekend projects tackling NYC challenges across climate, housing, healthcare, education, justice, AI infrastructure, and robotics, with science-fair demos, stage pitches, and prizes. Open to everyone, the event features support from Viam, a robotics and AI platform providing robot kits and mentors, and Vonage, an Ericsson company offering communications APIs.
Inside the event
Want to build? RSVP for the Build Weekend (Fri Oct 23 – Sat Oct 24): luma.com/onzzmytl
Spooky Civic AI Hackathon: Demo Day
Free. Open to everyone. No approval needed, just RSVP.
Sun Oct 25, 2–5pm, in person in Midtown or on Zoom.
You don't need to have built anything. Come watch, cheer, and meet people.
What happens
Teams show the AI tools they built in one weekend to help New York City, across 4 tracks: The Existential Track (climate), Urban Nightmares (housing, healthcare, education, justice), Ghost in the Machine (AI infrastructure), and Physical AI for Good (robots). Every team shows at a science-fair table, then the top 5 demo on stage. Judges pick the winners.
Prizes (cash prizes go to the whole team)
- Physical AI for Good, led by Viam: our biggest cash prize
- Best overall: picked from the top 5 teams on stage
- Fellows-only prize: cash plus a 1:1 session with a tech recruiter
- People's choice: the room votes
- Costume contest: come dressed up
Who should come?
Anyone curious about AI or civic tech: friends of builders, people thinking about joining a future hackathon, nonprofit and city folks looking for new tools, and anyone who wants to see what's possible.
Where: Midtown Manhattan. The exact address and the Zoom link go to everyone who RSVPs.
Partners: Thank you to Viam and Vonage for making this weekend possible.
Costumes encouraged.
Sponsorship inquiries: Partner with 3percentclub
About Viam****: Viam is a New York-based software platform for building, deploying, and managing robotics and AI in the physical world. Viam is supplying robot arm kits and on-site mentors for this hackathon.
About Vonage****: Vonage, part of Ericsson, builds communications APIs for voice, video, messaging, and verification that developers put into their apps. Vonage is providing food and builder API credits for this hackathon.
About 3percentclub****: 3percentclub is an NYC nonprofit that teaches free AI classes for underrepresented builders: engineers, career changers, product managers, designers, and people who have never coded. This event is open to everyone. Want to go deeper with AI? Apply to the free AI Architect Fellowship for weekly classes, mentorship, and a community to build with.
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