Awards & hackathons — 2023 to 2026
Awards and hackathons.
Newest first. Participation without a prize is listed as such. Results from the Siemens × AWS Hackathon, the AWS World Sports Innovation Cup and Launchpad are listed as announced to the teams; written confirmations are being collected.
- wins or winning teams
- 7
- entries
- 13
- hackathon wins since 2025
- 3
The biggest wins
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Winner on Demo Day USD 100,000 Launchpad by Stan
Won with Kobe AI as Founding Engineer: 30 teams, selected from about 700 applications. Result as announced to the teams; written confirmation pending. Read the post -
Thuringia, plus the DGUV special prize at the 59th national final State winner Jugend forscht 2024
A CNN system that detects pneumonia on chest X-rays; team of three. Read the post
Scholarships and programs
Volunteering and scholarships →- sdw Klaus Murmann Fellowship, Foundation of German Business One of Germany's 13 federally funded talent foundations; seminars and a regional group. since Oct 2025 Scholarship Read the post
- Sparkassenstiftung Erfurt scholarship For achievement and engagement; the funds went into PneuNet. 2024 – 2025 Scholarship Read the post
- McKinsey Firsthand Non-monetary talent program: coaching, coffee chats, a recruiting contact. since Nov 2025 Program, non-monetary
- e-fellows.net online scholarship Non-monetary online scholarship: mentoring, network and events. Dec 2025 – Jan 2027 Program, non-monetary
More results
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OpenAI Hackathon at IdeaLab! 2026
Participant · WHU
Built “Voya” in 48 hours as technical lead. Team of three to four; 130 of the 142 commits are mine.
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AWS World Sports Innovation Cup 2026
Winning team · AWS with adidas, DFL and Slalom
“Connected Arena”, a fan engagement concept and prototype; pitched in the final. Global student hackathon. We were a team of three; the final took place at the DFB Campus in Frankfurt on 16 June 2026.
Result as announced to the teams; certificate pending.
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START Hack 2026
Participant · START Global
600+ hackers, 36 hours: built “Thesinator” for the Studyond challenge. Part of a group of twelve HPI students that Ignite brought to the hackathon.
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Siemens × AWS Hackathon “ReThink Recycling”
Winning team · Siemens Professional Education, Werner-von-Siemens Centre and AWS
Real-time trash detection on a live camera feed, with YOLOv8. YOLOv8 instance segmentation, a threaded inference pipeline tuned to run smoothly on a CPU (FP16, 320 px), and Flask MJPEG streaming into a browser dashboard.
Result as announced to the teams; certificate pending.
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Bundesliga Hackathon 2025
Winning team · DFL, AWS and EintrachtTech
One of six winning teams among 42, with a cross-platform fan app and AI chat. The first Bundesliga Hackathon: 42 teams, 15 in the final at Deutsche Bank Park, Frankfurt. Our team “Hasso's Kickers” (three HPI students) is listed by the DFL as one of the winning teams.
Read the post DFL review of the hackathon ↗
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E-Challenge, HPI Engine
Best Pitch 2024 · HPI Engine, course “Economic Foundations”
One-minute pitch among about 15 teams: “Ratard”, an extension against fake news. Ratard flags fake news, manipulation and bias right on the page. I built a first prototype the week after the pitch.
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JugendUnternimmt Summer School
First place, pitch competition · JugendUnternimmt
Built a business model in one workshop week and pitched it to a jury of founders. Business model canvas, cost model and market within the week. Taking part was itself a special prize from the Jugend forscht regional round.
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German Karate Championships (DKV)
U14 vice-champion and U21 team bronze · Deutscher Karate Verband
German U14 vice-champion in kumite; bronze in the U21 team kumite (2023); 1st Dan. Shotokan karate since 2012 at Chikara-Club Erfurt. Further German Championship results: 5th place junior kumite −68 kg (2022), 7th place U21 (2023 and 2024). The 2024 championship was six days before my Abitur certificate.
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MINT-EC certificate
With distinction · MINT-EC, national network of STEM-focused schools
Top level in all three categories. 335 points for extracurricular STEM activities, against a threshold of 80.
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Bundeswettbewerb Informatik
First prize in round 1, twice · Germany's Federal Computer Science Competition
First prize in round 1 in both years, qualifying for round 2 each time. Completed round 2 in 2022/23. Attended HPI's “Fit for BWInf” camp in January 2024, my first contact with the institute.
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Computer Science Team Competition of Thuringia's STEM schools
First place · Carl-Zeiss-Gymnasium Jena
Team of three from the Albert-Schweitzer-Gymnasium Erfurt. Competition of Thuringia's specialized STEM schools, hosted by the Carl-Zeiss-Gymnasium Jena.
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