Build with AI 2026 x MLH Hackathon in Ahlen

Who can attend?

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Schedule

10:00 AM In-person
👋 Check-in & Welcome
Registration, ticket check, and issuance of welcome stickers.

11:30 AM In-person
🎤 Opening & Briefing
Introduction of Hackathon. Prize overview.

12:00 PM In-person
🚀 Intro & start with Anna Muzykina
Prepare environment for coding.

12:30 PM In-person
The Agentic Shift: Kick-off with Anna Muzykina: Why Agents? Why Now?
The New Wave: Intro to the shift from static LLM chats to Action-Oriented AI. Why 2026 is the year of the Agentic Workflow. The Mission: How Autonomous Agents act as "The Human Compass" to solve real-world problems in our community.

1:00 PM In-person
Coffee break ☕️
Drinks and snacks

2:00 PM In-person
🛠️ Workshop with Henry Lim: Hands-on with Agent Development Kit (ADK): The Garden of the Forgotten Prompt
Get hands-on with Google Agent Development Kit (ADK), Google’s framework for building, evaluating, and deploying AI agents. You'll progressively learn to design advanced agents and train them to play the text-based adventure game “The Garden of the Forgotten Prompt”. Get ready to explore a mysterious world, solve puzzles, and uncover secrets!

2:30 PM In-person
🛠️ Workshop with Akshata Mohanty: Building a distributed multi-agent system with Google Cloud
We use this codelab to learn about building multi-agent systems with Google ADK. Through creating a set of specialized agents that collaborate to solve a complex task, participants will learn about concepts such as subagents, remote agents and orchestration agents. This is a hands-on workshop where we build a Course Creation System composed of a Researcher Agent (gathers information via Google Search), a Judge Agent (evaluates research quality), a Content Builder Agent (turns research into a structured course), and an Orchestrator Agent that coordinates the workflow between them.

3:00 PM In-person
💡Brainstorming: Team building.
Choosing ideas: from chatbots for local needs to multi-agent systems.

4:00 PM In-person
Lunch ☕️🍕

5:00 PM Hybrid (Online & In-person)
🏗️ Hacking Sprint with Mentorship
"The Big Vibe." 2,5 hours of high-velocity coding. Using AI Agents (eg. Antigravity, google AI studio) to built for Local Impact.

7:30 PM Hybrid (Online & In-person)
The Showcase
"Hard Demos Only." No slides. Teams run CLI commands or live agents to demonstrate the Local Impact.

8:15 PM Hybrid (Online & In-person)
Judging
Scoring based on: Technical Complexity (30%), Professional Utility (30%), and Local Impact (40%).

8:45 PM Hybrid (Online & In-person)
Awards
Digital "Build with AI" Badges Winner Announcement