Hackathon Winners

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🏆 Announcing the Winners 🏆

What an incredible 8-week sprint! 🚀

We are absolutely thrilled to announce the winners of the DTEC 2026 Hackathon. Throughout the competition, we saw 88 finalists (out of 137 registrants) from multiple countries deliver brilliant projects tackling real-world challenges in Tamil Language Learning and Teaching.

Choosing the winners was incredibly tough given the creative solutions and the exceptional caliber of every single submission!

🥇 The Winners

🏆 1st Place: Homework Helper - Tamizh Aasan

PRIZE :

USD$ 1000

Partiticipants :

Mruthula Mohankumar Mahathi Mohankumar, Mythili Gopalan, Mohan Kumar Chandrasekaran

Organization :

ITA Fremont Central Tamil School, California, USA

🏆 2nd Place: AI-Based Tamil Dialogue and Sentence Builder

PRIZE :

USD$ 750

Participants :

Rohini S, Abinaya V, Dharshini P, Dharshini V

Organization :

Chettinad College of Engineering and Technology, Tamilnadu, India

🏆 3rd Place: Living Sangam World: AI-Powered Immersive Tamil Poetry Experience

PRIZE :

USD$ 500

Participant :

Aishwarya Ravichandran

Organization :

Meenakshi Sundararajan Engineering College, Tamilnadu, India

For more information, email to dtec dot hackathon at catamilacademy dot org