> from openai import OpenAI > > client = OpenAI() # May 13, 2023 > while building: > build("chatbot wrapper") > # is this a project? > insert_coin()
May 13, 2023. The humble origins. The mission was simple and only a little audacious: build a Hack the North, but for high schoolers.
May 4, 2024. Running it back. Twice the hackers.
April 5, 2025. 10x the prize valuation. 3D printers on the floor.
May 1–2, 2026. All-in on the hacker experience. Amazing food. Amazing prizes. Free NFC cards for every hacker. Duration doubled — first overnight edition.
We're not announcing the theme yet. We're not announcing the venue yet. We're not announcing the prize pool yet. We're announcing the people we want next to us — and inviting you to be one of them.
Every cohort that came before is still a Slack message away — Waterloo SE undergrads, Cohere engineers, DECA ICDC winners, an HDSB Student Trustee, a YC-track founder. The network is the unfair advantage.
+30The right environment is the one where the people next to you are sharper, kinder, and a little further along — and quietly raise your bar without ever making it feel like a competition. That's the room we're trying to build, every year.
No gatekeeping, no résumé politics. The board is friends who tell each other the truth, fix each other's bugs at 2am, and stay in the chat long after grad. If that's the kind of group you've been looking for — come find us.
“You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.
