Awards & Winners

The following awards recognize outstanding hackathon projects, based on judging scores and sponsor selections. Winning teams and projects are listed below.

Sponsor Prize Winner
Renaissance Philanthropy Overall Winner ($7,000) H-051 — Interpretable Digital Twins for Autonomous STEM Aberration Correction
2nd Overall Winner ($3,000) H-065 — Autonomous Identification of Metal Microstructural Features via Latent Space Mapping-Based Microscope Control
Covalent Metrology 2nd Place ($3,000) H-068 — TwinSpec: A Digital Twin Framework for GIWAXS Data, Geometry, and Physics-Aware ML
3rd Place ($2,000) H-064 — RONIN - Ronchigram based Optical Neural Inference for aberration detection
Theia Scientific $1,000 H-043 — Automated particle detection and quantitative analysis from electron microscopy images
Toyota Research Institute $1,000 (Best Interactivity) H-022 — DeepScan Pro: Intelligent Microscopy Agent
Oxford Instruments - Asylum Research $1,000 (Best AFM/SPM Project) H-035 — Angle-Dependent Morphologies of Ferroelectric Domain Walls
Polaron Award Winner ($1,000 + platform access) H-065 — Autonomous Identification of Metal Microstructural Features via Latent Space Mapping-Based Microscope Control
Runner-up (platform access) H-042 — EM-Caddie
JEOL $1,000 H-041 — Machine Learning Denoising of Reciprocal Space Maps for realistic center-of-mass evaluation
MSA Student Council $500 + Student registration to MSA 2026 PMC (Milwaukee) H-014 — VLRIMM - Vision-Language Retrieval for Identical Materials Morphology
Waviks $500 H-042 — EM-Caddie
Hugging Face Merch + 2 months Hugging Face Pro H-002 — Contrastive Micrograph-Metadata Pre-Training
Mat3ra Compute credits worth $5,000 H-051 — Interpretable Digital Twins for Autonomous STEM Aberration Correction
DENS Solutions Mystery Prize (Gin-Situ) H-043 — Automated particle detection and quantitative analysis from electron microscopy images
COMMAT $500 (Canada Regional Winner) H-014 — VLRIMM - Vision-Language Retrieval for Identical Materials Morphology
Hitachi High-Tech Canada $300 (Canada Regional Runner-up) H-062 — ANCHOR: Registration by Alignment
AISCIA MENA Regional Award H-011 — Digital Bubble Stability Tracking Microscope
These prizes celebrate creativity, collaboration, and the spirit of open science at the Hackathon.