Hosted bySoftware Engineering ClubUniversity of North Georgia // Dahlonega, Georgia
The day at Hacklonega
Hacklonega was UNG’s first hackathon.
One Saturday in Dahlonega, one building, and a lot of students building with open-source AI and open-weight models.
Arduinos and fanny packs went home with hackers, courtesy of MLH.
Thanks for hacking the mountains with us.
Best Overall1st place
A fishing companion for Georgia’s freshwater fish. Snap a photo and BioCLIP, an open-weight model running on the team’s own backend, ranks likely matches from 290 species for you to confirm.
Team: Colin Perry, Greyson Turner, Torben Conto
Best Overall2nd place
An open-source cybersecurity workbench for students and CTF players. It inspects bytes, hashes, encodings, XOR, subnets, and packet captures in the browser, and an opt-in open-weight model suggests the next lab. The math stays local.
Team: Gideon Prisk, Brianna Walter, Mickie Tran, Jack Burnett
Best Overall3rd place
Off-grid triage for when the cell towers go down. People send short texts over low-cost Meshtastic LoRa radios, and a gateway laptop uses an open-weight model to help decide what to act on first.
Team: Joseph Oprea, Jacob Navarrete, Mark Huynh, Marius Lutenco
Best Open-Source AI Project
All your classes in one place. ClassSync brings the semester together so students can stop hunting through course pages and answer one question: what should I do next?
Team: Ethan Wood, Andrew Buchberger, Michael Straughter, Bralin Garcia
Best Use of Snowflake
Flight info is scattered across airline apps, weather reports, and airport sites. Standby brings it together: speak or type your plans, and Snowflake’s historical flight data shows how often similar flights ran late.
Team: Callum Maclean, Tomas Karounas
Most Creative
A desktop desktop environment, inspired by the days before flat, boring desktops. It has a lamp, a clock, even a quill and ink. It has drawers too. Let’s see Windows do that.
Team: Atticus Orsagh
Best Open-Source AI ProjectRunner-up
Worlds of Mayhem & Possibilities: a strategy game where two AI commanders lead opposing countries across land, sea, and air. DigitalOcean powers the commanders, and Snowflake stores every campaign for saved wars and replays.
Team: James Young
Best Use of SnowflakeRunner-up
A research-paper discovery assistant. Ask a question and get an answer that cites the exact passages, make two papers argue, and find the open questions between them, all inside one Snowflake account.
Team: Rohan Karve, Carlos Mata, Pramit Patel, Chance Caswell
Photos
A few favorites from October 24. MLH has the whole set.
Special thanks
Major League Hacking sent the Hackathon in a Box, the Arduinos and fanny packs we handed out, and basically everything else the day ran on. Hacklonega wouldn’t have happened without them.
