First Edition · planned for 2027

The Challenge

Once a year, participants take on the problems they believe matter most and build an AI solution for positive impact. Accepted projects earn a permanent home. Recognition will be defined in the future official rules.

Across all four pillars, every project must create real, positive impact — in one of four human themes.

Submissions planned for 2027
An annual rhythm

An international AI Challenge, once a year.

Open to anyone 18–25

Anywhere in the world, in or out of school. Teams of any background — the strongest often pair a domain expert with a builder.

Code and prompts welcome

Never required. We reward the intelligence behind the solution — not technical sophistication for its own sake.

Already built it? Submit it.

Projects created in the last 24 months are welcome — bring the work you’re proud of.

Where participants build

Four human themes.

Participants choose the problems that matter most to them — within four areas where AI can change lives.

Climate

Adaptation, resilience and a livable planet.

Health

Access, prevention and better care for all.

Education

Learning that reaches everyone, everywhere.

Community

Stronger, fairer, more connected societies.

*Climate includes projects related to climate, environment, agriculture, water and natural resources.
What participants submit

The thinking, not just the code.

1
The problem & the solution
What you set out to solve, and what you built.
2
The AI architecture
How the intelligence works — models, data and design.
3
Prompts, workflows & code
However you made it — prompts, workflows and code are all welcome.
4
A demo link & a short video
See it working, and hear the team tell its story.
Judged on substance

Projects are assessed on impact, genuine use of AI, responsibility, feasibility and clarity — not on how technically elaborate they are.

Your intellectual property stays yours. You choose what is public and what stays private.

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Awards & recognition

Many kinds of talent.

Because talent takes many forms, projects can be recognised in many ways.

The heights
Grand Prize

The project the grand jury believes best embodies everything Olomoon stands for.

Theme Awards

One for each of Climate, Health, Education and Community.

Distinctions
AI Excellence
The most impressive, well-judged use of AI.
Impact Excellence
The clearest, most meaningful real-world impact.
Responsible AI
Thoughtful, safe and fair by design.
Resourcefulness
The most done with the least.
Young Builders (18–19)
Standout work from the youngest builders.
How projects are selected

Two rounds, two kinds of expertise.

1
Category review

Review teams surface the strongest projects in every category — each of the four themes, and each distinction (AI Excellence, Impact, Responsible AI, Resourcefulness, Young Builders).

2
Grand jury

A grand jury reviews the finalists and chooses the winners, including the Grand Prize.

Both review teams and jury bring together AI experts and impact experts — technical excellence and real-world impact weigh equally.

Beyond the competition

Every accepted project keeps its page.

Every accepted project gets a permanent home — a description and a demo video, with the information provided by its creator — discoverable by theme, country, university and year, for years to come. Great work no longer disappears the day after it’s shown.

The project then appears in both Discovery and the Challenge. The public fields are identical in both, and always provided by the candidate. Only the Challenge adds fields of its own — architecture, prompts, code, data, methodology and results — and those stay private, seen by the Olomoon team and the jury alone.

Be there when the first edition opens.

Submissions planned for 2027. Discovery is where Olomoon starts — create your account and it is yours to explore now.

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