AI4Alzheimer's

Visit our website at hack4health.xyz Join our discord: https://discord.com/invite/SZhaZcNh4D Register: https://forms.gle/bTinPfsdc36DhqLA8 Alzheimer’s remains one of the most complex and devastating neurodegenerative diseases — with slow onset, heterogeneous progression, and limited treatment options. In this hackathon, you’ll use real, de-identified biomedical data to build machine learning models that support early detection, progression forecasting, or interpretability of Alzheimer’s Disease risk. Our goal: make serious computational health innovation accessible to every motivated high school or undergraduate student, no lab or insider network required. Tracks Participants can choose one of several focus areas: Deep Learning — Participants will be challenged to build the most accurate and precise models Non-deep Learning — These submissions will be graded more so on creativity in approach while also demanding high performance. What You’ll Get Authentic biomedical datasets — multimodal tabular + limited imaging-derived features Starter notebooks for preprocessing and model validation Mentorship from ML researchers & biomedical data scientists Weekly clinics + async feedback on model framing, interpretability, and reproducibility Publication-ready outcomes — model cards, reproducibility checklists, and report templates 🧭 Timeline Date Event Now Registration opens October 25 Datasets + baseline notebooks released Oct 1 Mentorship clinics begin Nov 21 @ 23:59 UTC Submission deadline Dec 5 Judging period Dec 8 Winners announced Judging Criteria Category Weight Description Technical Rigor 30% Sound methodology, proper evaluation, reproducibility Insight & Interpretation 25% Clear articulation of what the model reveals Communication 20% Clarity of report, visualizations, and model card Creativity 25% Novel framing, thoughtful extensions, or analysis depth Eligibility Open globally to high school and undergraduate students. Teams of up to 3 members. Prior ML or medical experience not required — educational resources provided! Learning Resources We provide: Guided tutorials on ML, statistics, explainability, and model evaluation Baseline pipelines & fairness audit templates Feedback sessions from experienced mentors 🌍 Join the Community 💬 Discord: https://discord.com/invite/SZhaZcNh4D 🌐 Website: https://www.hacking4health.vercel.app GitHub Dataset (coming soon): Hosted by Hack4Health Hack4Health democratizes computational medicine by giving students access to authentic biomedical datasets, pragmatic tooling, and strong mentorship. We believe breakthroughs come from interdisciplinary builders, not silos — and our founders have gone on to ISEF, publications, and hospital research demos. 🪙 Sponsors + Prizes Art of Problem Solving: Gift cards of $25 to all top performers Balsamiq: Free access to their tools during the hackathon period for design, planning and communication (worth $18) Generation XYZ LLC: 9 free domain names for winners More Coming Soon ...