Every year since 2017, in partnership with the College of Veterinary Medicine, we bring you the beloved animal health hackathon. With $9,000 in cash prizes for winning teams, and students attending from UPenn, NC State, and Virginia Tech, and Cornell Tech this is one event you won’t want to miss.

Sponsors and Partners are send 50+ mentors and include: Encore Vet Group, Veritas Vet Partners, Zoetis, Boehringer Ingelheim, Idexx, Rarebreed Vet Partners, Elanco, VetTriage, Destination Pet, VPP, Nestle Purina, IBM, Vet Emergency Group, Banfield Pet Hospital.  

Experience the hackathon in less than 2 minutes: Video

EVERY student is welcome! But must sign up in advance, as this is a very popular event and there is a waitlist every year.

A hackathon celebrates the use of minimal resources and maximum brain power to create outside-the-box solutions ("hacks") in a constrained time frame. This interdisciplinary event brings together students from across degrees, majors, and schools at Cornell, as well as other universities!  On Friday evening, teams comprised of veterinary, business, engineering, and design students, form and begin to create solutions to needs in veterinary health care. On Saturday, mentors provide feedback and guidance to teams.  On Sunday, the hackathon culminates in a project showcase to an audience of peers, mentors and representatives.  A panel of judges select winners.

Students benefits from participation:

∙ Professional development: Build valuable competencies applicable in academic, corporate, and clinical careers, including idea generation, project management, communications and beyond

∙Cross-discipline interaction: Work closely with students from other universities and Cornell colleges

∙Industry leaders: Mentoring, networking and exposure with experts from leading tech and veterinary health companies and practices

∙Academic: Earn academic credit for Hackathon participation and complementary work (via optional enrollment in hackathon affiliated courses)

∙Recognition: Accolades and monetary awards for winning teams