We are back! Following PhysTech 2024, 2025, and 2026, we are excited to welcome you to the 2027 edition: PhysTech 2027.

Website: https://binnovative-boston.github.io/phystech/
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PhysTech is an online, student-led hackathon for anyone who does, watches, analyzes and promotes physical activities - including sports, workouts, fitness exercises, casual hobbies, and recreational adventures.

All types of physical activities are welcome. Traditional sports and athletic training? Absolutely. Yoga, pilates, ballet? Of course. Swimming, kayaking, cycling, dancing, skateboarding, rock/mountain climbing, hiking, horseback riding? Definitely. Fishing, bowling, paddleboarding, scuba diving, rafting, cheer leading, outdoor bird watching, gardening, kite flying, disk golf (frisbee), or cornhole? Why not!

PhysTech is open not only to athletes and recreational participants, but also to fans, coaches, referees/judges, and analysts.

PhysTech offers you a platform to identify needs, wants and challenges in physical activities and develop creative, technology-driven solutions (hacks) to address them.

PhysTech is supported by Binnovative, a nonprofit organization in Massachusetts.

EVENT OVERVIEW

Format: Fully online

Entry fee: Free

Participation: Individuals and teams

Eligibility: Open to participants of all ages and technical backgrounds. No previous hackathon experience is required.

Project period: Participants may work on their projects at any time before the submission deadline.

Project submission deadline: 12pm on June 26 (Sat), 2027, EST

Presentation registration deadline: 12pm on June 26 (Sat), 2027, EST

Online project presentations: June 27 (Sun), 2027, EST

Awards: 15+ awards recognize projects across a wide range of categories.

Publication opportunity: Selected participants will be invited to publish book chapters about their projects in the Binnovative Innovation Book series.

Merchandise: Celebrate your AnimalHack experience with official merch! Purchases help support future PhysTech events.

EXPECTED PROJECT TOPICS

Expected project topics include, but are not limited to:

* Monitoring and enhancing performance
* Logging and tracking practice, training and exercise
* Recording, analyzing and communicating activity data
* Applying data analytics to physical activity
* Enhancing fan experience
* Increasing participation/engagement in physical activity
* Promoting health and wellness though physical activity
* Preventing and helping heal from injuries
* Improving dietary and nutritional assistance
* Protecting and improving the environment for physical activity

Solutions can take many different forms such as apps, games, social platforms, web sites/services, devices, sensors, robots, immersive technology (AR/VR), wearables, data collection/storage, data analysis/forecasts, data visualization, audio/image/video processing, 3-dimensional modeling/printing, machine learning/AI, NFT/crypto, and algorithms.

BOOK PUBLICATION

We plan to publish a book that features selected projects presented at PhysTech 2027. Award recipients and other selected participants will be invited to extend their project abstracts and publish them as book chapters through Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing. For your reference, see the books published in the prior editions of PhysTech:

* PhysTech 2026 book
* PhysTech 2025 book
* PhysTech 2024 book

ORGANIZERS

* Hanna Suzuki
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Requirements

Project Work

PhysTech is a “flexible” online hackathon. You can work on your project at any time before the deadline.

Project Submission

Complete ALL of the following 3 requirements:

Submit your project to Devpost by 12pm on June 26 (Sat), EST.
Register your project presentation through the designated Google Form by 12pm on June 26 (Sat), EST.
Deliver a project presentation online on June 27 (Sun), EST.

The deadlines are firm. No extensions will be given. To remain eligible for award consideration, all 3 requirements must be completed by the deadlines.

The form for presentation registration will be shared in the PhysTech 2026 channel in Discord. You will be asked to provide:

* Presenter name and contact information
* Country of residence (time zone)
* Project title
* Project abstract (brief one-paragraph project description)
* Publicly accessible link to your project

The project link may direct to a code repository such as GitHub, a shared storage such as Google Drive, a live application, or another publicly accessible location. The link must provide evidence of your project’s actual outcome—not only a description or proposal.

We will use this link to verify the actual outcome of your work and confirm its relevance to AnimalHack. Please note that we will not schedule your presentation if we cannot access or verify your actual work.

Project Presentation

We will announce the schedule of project presentations (i.e. what time each presentation starts) by early morning of June 27 (Sun), EST. A Zoom link will be shared in the PhysTech 2027 channel in Discord.

In our current plan, we will kick off at 10am on June 27 (Sun), EST. However, we may adjust this to accommodate presenters in different time zones.

You will have 10 minutes in total for your presentation, including approx. 3 minutes for QAs with the judges and other participants.

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