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MicrosoftAnnouncing the November 2025 Innovation Challenge Hackathon!
From November 17 – November 28 we’ll be hosting a hackathon for hundreds of developers from organizations dedicated to advancing the careers of people from groups who are underrepresented in our industry. The Innovation Challenge program brings together Microsoft’s mission to empower every person with our passion for using leading edge tech to solve big problems. In order to qualify for this invitation only event, you need to be associated with one of the organizations in our program and to have achieved a qualifying certification or credential. For this virtual hackathon, participants will team up to solve for real world AI use cases using Azure. There are over $27,000 in prizes, including $10,000 for the winning team. Dozens of Microsoft employees will be volunteering as coaches and judges because we love to see what developers can do!
The organizations participating in the program include BITE CON, Blacks in Technology, Black Women in AI, Código Facilito, DIO, GenSpark, Microsoft Software and Services Academy, Musa Labs, NASA Space Apps (Chicago, Mountain View and Toronto), Project Blue Mountain, the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers, and Women in Cloud. If you are part of one of these organizations and interested in competing, let them know you are interested in getting an invitation. Or you can send mail to msdev@microsoft.com if you have questions and want to get involved.
This will be the 6th Innovation Challenge, and it’s exciting to see how the community has come together and grown. If you want to check out what these devs can do, visit our YouTube playlist or see what some of the past winners have built in the past year!
June 2025 Innovation Challenge Winners
March 2025 Innovation Challenge Winners