Hackathon SomosNLP 2025: Info for universities

Encourage your students to participate and learn with our hackathon!


Hello professor! 👋

This hackathon is an ideal experience for your students to improve their knowledge about Artificial Intelligence, particularly about language models in the real world: challenges, development, applications, risks, and much more 🤓

❓ Questions you’ve asked us

  • Can I use the hackathon as a classroom activity? Yes, as long as the dates and conditions set for all participants are respected.
  • Is there a maximum number of teams per university or professor? No, the more the better! The maximum number of people per team is 5.
  • Can you give a presentation about the community and the event for my university or class? Yes, of course, contact us as soon as possible to set the date.
  • As a professor, can I give a talk or mentoring during the hackathon? Of course! It will be a pleasure to have both your students AND faculty. Fill out the corresponding form to propose a talk or mentoring.
  • Some of my students don’t speak Spanish, is that a problem? No, everyone is welcome, in this edition the instructions are translated into English.
  • NEW! Can we hold the hackathon in person at the university? Yes, universities that wish to can provide a room for their students (and participants from the same city) where they can get together and develop their projects in person. Let us know so we can help you.

➡️ Send us an email at info@somosnlp.org, we count on you and your students!

If you are a student and would like your university to participate in the hackathon, tell your professor!

✨ Collaboration and benefits

What we ask from collaborating universities:

  • Minimum 1 publication before April 4th
  • Present minimum 5 students to the hackathon

Publication ideas:

  • Post on social media, website or newsletter encouraging participation
  • Post / article announcing the hackathon results (they can clearly focus on their students’ projects!)

By giving visibility to the hackathon and presenting at least 1 team of students to the hackathon, the university becomes a sponsor and will have the corresponding benefits:

  • University logo on the hackathon website (*)
  • University logo on the “Community” page (*)
  • Social media acknowledgment
  • Tags in social media posts (x5)

(*) Collaborating universities’ logos will be ordered by number of participating students.