AgTech Hackathon | 2026
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February 20-22, 2026
NDSU Peltier Complex
1300 18th St N, Fargo, ND 58102
Time
Check-In at 4pm on Friday, event concludes by 3pm on Sunday
More Info
Meals and Snacks provided
If traveling from outside of the Fargo-Moorhead area, assistance may be provided.
What is a hackathon?
A 48-hour innovation sprint where teams tackle real agricultural challenges. Choose from two challenges and build solutions that make digital agriculture more accessible and farmer-friendly.
Participants will be placed in teams of five, with each challenge having five teams competing for the top prize. First place team members for each of the challenges will all receive iPads.
The Challenges
UAV Image Processing
Hackathon for AgTech Innovation.
The Hackathon challenges participants to analyze, process, and extract insights from real aerial imagery collected over agricultural fields. Teams will develop innovative workflows using computer vision, machine learning, and geospatial analytics to solve real-world AgTech problems (weed detection, crop monitoring, phenotyping).
Breeding Data Predicting Modelling
Using your creativity, teamwork, and tenacity, use a historical dataset provided by Bayer Crop Science that contains 1 million data points encompassing genomic, phenotypic, weather, and soil data. Utilizing eight years of data, the task consists of predicting the performance of corn hybrids, utilizing one portion of the dataset as a training set and the other as a validation. The winning team is the one that combines not only scientific excellence and creativity but also a great elevated pitch.
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