Hackathon 2025 was a gamechanger!
| AI Summary: Junior Hackathon 2025 invited high school students to turn real-world and school challenges into fun, game-inspired solutions, with this year’s surprise theme focused on gamification and support from mentors including Bohemia Interactive. |
What if solving today’s real-world challenges could feel more like playing than working?
That’s the surprise theme of this year’s Junior Hackathon 2025: gamification.
This year, students were invited to take problems they see around them in school, online, in their communities, or in everyday life and turn them into engaging, playful, and impactful solutions. The challenge is simple: take a serious issue and make solving it fun.
And there’s more. If you’ve ever struggled with a school subject, wished learning could be more interactive, or thought education needed a fresh approach, this year’s hackathon offers the perfect opportunity. With support from our partner Bohemia Interactive, participants can explore how game-inspired thinking can help build creative solutions that motivate, teach, and inspire.
24 Hours of Ideas, Innovation, and Action.
At AT&T Hackathon Junior 2025 in Brno, high school students faced an intense 24-hour challenge designed to test their creativity, teamwork, and problem-solving skills. Guided by mentors from AT&T, VUT, MUNI, and Bohemia Interactive, teams developed projects that showed how gamification can be used in surprising and meaningful ways.
The creativity and effort on display were recognized with a prize pool worth more than 60,000 CZK
Innovation Leaders
🥇: Team Mercury (also awarded Best Idea 💡) from Creative Hill College – Secondary School of Film, Multimedia, and Computer Technology. Their fantastic idea and solution focused on educating about cybersecurity through a computer game.
🥈: Team CloudCrew (also awarded Best Presentation 🔥) from Gymnázium and Business Academy, Orlová. They delivered an amazing functional solution (Filona App) based on AI for scanning and documenting both paper and digital records, with broad applications for individuals and institutions alike.
🥉 : Team BinaryBandits from the Emil Kolben Secondary Technical School, Rakovník. They developed a fully functional (low-cost) solution, eRozvrh, designed for schools but with potential applications in other institutions managing spaces like meeting rooms.
The Special Brno City Award 🏆 was presented to the local Team 1984 from the High School of ICT, Postal Services, and Finance in Brno. Their HW/SW solution, Čenda, is a remote greenery monitoring system that enables better care for plants not only in urban environments. You can see this team in the photo attached to this post.
The Best Technical Solution Award 🛠️ went to Team Concentrated Prestige from the Secondary School of Electrical Engineering and Informatics, Ostrava. They developed an indoor tracking system with a wide range of potential applications.
Schedule
Important Info
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Address
Střední škola informatiky, poštovnictví a finančnictví Brno, příspěvková organizace
Čichnova 982/23
624 00 Brno
Contact
info@atthack.cz
Are you ready for Junior Hackathon 2025?
The Eighth Annual AT&T Junior Hackathon is here!
Can you come up with and implement an innovative idea using new technologies in just 24 hours, on a topic that we will reveal to you only at the event? Show us what you can do and gain a wealth of new experiences, contacts, and valuable prizes.
Your team will have a space prepared where you can set up your computers and other technology. Don’t forget to bring them with you.
Throughout the event, experienced employees from AT&T, universities, and other companies will be available as mentors to guide you, offer advice, and help you get closer to your goal and potential victory.
To help bring your idea to life, the FabLab truck equipped with 3D printing, a laser, and materials for your prototype will be available.
Form a team of up to five members full of energy and creative ideas. Don’t forget about presentation skills, which are just as important as the technical solution of your project. The ability to quickly solve new problems and the determination to complete the project within a tight deadline 24 hours is a must!
You will present your idea, solution, and prototype to a jury of technology enthusiasts and business professionals.
For teachers accompanying students who are not participating in the competition, a parallel program is prepared.
We look forward to seeing you!
