🌿 Welcome to TryToHack: Build, Connect, Align
The future isn't just something that happens to us — it’s something we actively architect.
Welcome to a hackathon rooted in solarpunk alignment, future-oriented thinking, and radical creative freedom, powered entirely by cutting-edge cloud and AI infrastructure and people who care. This is your playground to collaborate, research, and build the systems, tools, and autonomous ideas that will drive real, regenerative change.
THE PHILOSOPHY
Start Small, Build Momentum!
Great movements don’t start out massive; they start locally. We believe the path to a better future begins by upgrading our own lives, neighborhoods, and cities.
- Full Creative Freedom: You have total autonomy to explore what excites you—whether that’s building intelligent local agents, software platforms, eco-infrastructure simulations, or deep-dive technical research.
- Local Impact, Global Scale: We start by fixing the immediate world around us, using that initial spark to build unstoppable momentum for broader change.
🛠️ The Tech Stack
Look, resources aren't strictly infinite just yet (we are building toward that future, just take your part in it!😉), but we are equipping you with a powerful, accessible development stack to let you prototype completely for free:
- $300 Google Cloud Credits: New Google Cloud accounts get $300 in free startup credits to spin up virtual machines, host databases, or run backend services.
- Google Cloud Free Tier: Tap into over 20+ always-free core products to keep your infrastructure running smoothly.
- Gemini API & Student Pro Tools: Access frontier generative models through Google AI Studio’s free tiers—perfect for prototyping complex agentic workflows, vibe coding, and high-volume data analysis.
- Inspiration and Food supply on your way! <3
🏆 Prize Categories
We want to see how far you can push your creativity to create meaningful, aligned solutions or research. Your projects will be competing for two primary tracks:
- Best Use of Google Cloud: Awarded to the team that demonstrates the most innovative, scalable, or efficient architectural implementation on Google Cloud infrastructure.
- Best Use of Gemini API: Awarded to the team that builds the most creative, high-performing, or context-aware intelligence layer using Gemini models. Or just use it to plan every detail in how your team will make that city of yours better.
🤝 Total Support, Zero Friction
You don’t need to have a flawless blueprint ready before you walk through the door. The organizing team will be live and on the floor with you throughout the entire hackday to help you troubleshoot, brainstorm, and refine your architecture.
- Real talk: This is our very first time organizing an event like this! We are learning by doing, so please don't be too judgmental if every single logistical gear doesn't mesh flawlessly. What we might lack in veteran event-planning experience, we more than make up for with a deep hunger for a better future. Ultimately, we are doing all of this for a simple reason: for the sake of the happiness, thriving, and connection of our species.
Bring your curiosity, your drive, and your wildest ideas. Let’s connect, explore, and build a brighter, more aligned tomorrow!!!!!!! 
