Hackathon
“Introducing the world of hacking through Tamil digital learning and teaching for a new generation of innovators, empowered by the latest AI advancements.”
“Students, teachers, parents, volunteers, and innovators—everyone is welcome to participate!”
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Topics
For Students:
1. Entity Recognition for Tamil Contents:
Learner can submit any tamil content in any form. Solution should identify the entities and explain them
2. Accent/Pronunciation Validators:
User friendly interface for the students/learner to speak and correct their accent based on feedback
3. Dialogue Generator, Sentence Builder:
Interface to students/learners which generates grammar-error free dialogues or sentences based on given noun, verb, tense, gender, etc.,
4. Tanglish to Tamil Translator:
Easy way to convert handwritten or printed tanglish text to Tamil unicode text
5. Content Rephraser:
User friendly interface for the students/learner to speak and correct their accent based on feedback
For Teachers:
1.Question & Answer generator:
Teachers can generate random question answers in various format based on syllabus
2. Quiz/Puzzle Maker:
Interface to build any type of puzzle/quiz on their own
3. Mindmap Builders:
Teachers should able to build mind map for based on tamil grammar rules for punarchi grammar, etc.,
4. Sangam literature LLM:
interactive interface to chat with all classical tamil literature
5. User Content Skill Evaluator.:
Evaluate Vocabulary count, vocabulary level, grammar errors, sentence patterns, etcs
Prizes
1st Prize :
$1000
2nd Prize :
$750
3rd Prize :
$500
Timeline
Hackathon will run for 4 weeks, submission last date is Jun 19, 2026
Registration Open date
May 8, 2026
Registration last date
May 22, 2026
Completed Project Submission last date
Jun 19, 2026
Review and Judgement date
Jun 27th, 2026
Winners Announcement
July, 5th 2026
*All the dates mentioned are observed in US Pacific Timezone.
FAQ
1. Who can register to participate in the Hackathon?
Students, teachers, parents, volunteers, and innovators can register to participate in Hackathon.
2. Is there any minimum age to participate in the Hackathon?
Participants must be 14 years of age or older to participate in the Hackathon.
3. How many members can participate in Hackathon?
2 to 4 members can participate in Hackathon as a team or an individual member.
4. Can an individual or a team submit more than one Hackathon Idea?
No, one Hackathon Idea is allowed per an individual or a team submission. If more than one submitted by an individual or a team, only the 1st entry will be kept, other entries will be rejected.
5. What happens once the registration window closes on May 22nd ?
Following the May 22nd registration deadline, ideas will be shortlisted based on their abstracts. Shortlisted participants will then be notified.
6. How to submit the final completed submission of the Hackathon?
One final completed working application version of the project should be submitted with the instructions to run the application for review.
7. What will happen to the winning projects after the hackathon?
Winning ideas from the hackathon will be integrated into the ITA LMS to support innovative teaching and learning. By participating, all entrants agree to assign all intellectual property rights of their submissions to International Tamil Academy.
For more information, email to dtec dot hackathon at catamilacademy dot org