ParticipateBiology needs builders. UnivaBio brings students worldwide together to build tools that make healthcare smarter, earlier, and more accessible.
About UnivaBio
UnivaBio is a global student competition open to students aged 13 and up, hosted collaboratively by BioCataalysis and Univa Dev in support of innovation at the intersection of healthcare and technology. Working individually or in teams, participants design and build a meaningful technical product that helps people detect illness earlier, understand it better, or live with it more easily.
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Judging
Sudheer Pratap (Lead Software Engineer) and Aditya Shrivastava (Software Engineer at Barclays) score projects on idea and innovation, implementation, health impact and rigor, design and usability, and presentation.
Meet the judges
Deadline
The event is fully online, so build at your own pace from anywhere. Announcements and updates land on the Devpost page.
Submissions
Technology for Human Health. Build something that helps people detect illness earlier, understand it better, or live with it more easily: an app, a website, a simulation, a system, or an algorithm.
$35K+ in prizes: cash-value placements for the top three, a $2,000 special prize for the best no-code AI app built with Momen, and $299 in Tin Computer Growth Credits for each of 100 winners. More prizes coming soon.
AI assistants are encouraged, so beginners with ambitious ideas can actually ship them. Just understand what you built and be ready to walk judges through your own code.
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Register
The competition is fully online and free, open to students aged 13 and up worldwide. Register, build something for human health, and submit before the deadline.
A global student hackathon hosted by Univa Dev and BioCataalysis around one theme: Technology for Human Health. You design and build a technical product that helps people detect illness earlier, understand it better, or live with it more easily.
Students aged 13 and up, from any country or territory (standard exceptions apply). Companies and professional organizations are excluded from participation.
Almost anything technical: an app, a website, a simulation, a system, or an algorithm. An EdTech app teaching health concepts, a classification model trained on imaging datasets, or a proposal with significant medical implications all fit.
Yes, you're encouraged to. We want the technical barrier low enough that beginners with ambitious ideas can actually ship them. What matters is that you understand what you built and can explain it. Be prepared to walk judges through your own code.
Yes. UnivaBio is fully online and free to enter, from anywhere in the world.
Yes. Work individually or in a team, whichever suits your project.
Judges score five things: idea and innovation, implementation, health impact and rigor, design and usability, and presentation.
Over $35K in total. First place takes $2,790 in value (Momen credits, a two-year CodeCrafters membership, and InterviewBuddy credits), second $405, and third $225. There is a $2,000 special prize for the best no-code AI app built with Momen, and 100 winners will each receive $299 in Tin Computer Growth Credits ($29,900 in total; these are sponsor-provided credits, not cash). More prizes are coming soon.
Submissions close October 6, 2026 at 11:45pm EDT.
