Clear your calendar - It's going down – and you're invited!
Join us for an unforgettable weekend at the (now annual) FOOD HACKATHON!

🍇🍎 November 7-9, 2025 | Stocking Hall 🌱🧁

Honey 🐝Dairy 🐄Soy 🍱 Fermentation ♻️ Upcycling 🍜 Nutrition 💦Waste Reduction ♻ Food Safety 🥜  Food Innovation  🍳 Food Products 🍱 packaging 🛒  you decide what you'll focus on💭

Our hackathons are inclusive of everyone, psychological safety is of utmost importance, and everyone has a place at our events. 🥄 All students in all fields of study are encouraged to participate in this competition, which is also a 'coopetition.' 🥢

This event has broad appeal and offers a unique opportunity to work side-by-side with peers in food 👨🏾‍🍳 ag 🧪 nutrition 👩🏽‍🔬 health 🥼 tech 👩‍💻 data 💻 operations 👨‍🏭 business , engineering, and more.

Industry mentors are present providing feedback to interdisciplinary teams of students.

📅 Event runs Friday 4-9:30pm, Saturday 9am-~9pm, and Sunday 9am-3:30pm
We do NOT work all night.

🌮Food, 🎁 swag, and 🤝mentorship provided. $10,000 cash plus bonus prizes awarded . You bring the creativity and energy.
 

Still unsure? View our Hackathon Video series to experience our hackathon model in mere minutes!  Additional videos of each hackathon are available on this playlist

Don’t miss out on your chance to experience SIGN UP NOW before the waitlist starts. 👉 https://hackathon.cornell.edu/food 👈
 

This is a fun and inter-disciplinary event meant to provide you real-life experience in forming teams, pitching ideas, problem-solving, public speaking, and networking. All in an environment with tons of support and resources. (Good food, professional mentors, faculty, staff and more all at the ready to support and assist)
 

ALL STUDENTS, from any degree, any major, any year in school from ANY school, college, or department is absolutely welcome at our hackathons.

🌏The world population is expected to exceed 9 billion by the middle of this century. Nearly a billion people around the world still suffer from hunger and poor nutrition. Major changes to food production, processing, and distribution systems are needed to ensure people everywhere have access to safe, sufficient, affordable, and nutritious food. 🍴

The transformation of global food systems will rely on the combined expertise, vision, experience, and commitment of researchers, educators, entrepreneurs, and consumers as well as industry practitioners working collectively to catalyze new ideas, drive innovation, and motivate change.  Skills and knowledge from food scientists, nutritionists, engineers, social scientists, manufacturers, and more are needed to foster solution-oriented scientific discoveries to advance our transformative goals.

A hackathon acts as a catalyst to spur innovation, collaboration, and discovery through a highly facilitated event that enables students to design and prototype solutions. Over the course of a weekend, approximately 150 Cornell undergraduate and graduate students from diverse disciplinary backgrounds will develop a broad range of ideas and skills as they address challenges in the hackathon’s focal areas in food innovation and sustainability.