A huge thank you to the partners of HackNU26! 💚

Thanks to your support, we’ve built a platform where hundreds of talents turned their ideas into real projects in just 24 hours 🤝

Огромное спасибо партнерам HackNU26! 💚

Благодаря вашей поддержке мы создали площадку, где сотни талантов всего за 24 часа превратили смелые идеи в реальные проекты 🤝

HackNU26 серіктестеріне үлкен алғыс білдіреміз! 💚

Сіздердің қолдауларыңыздың арқасында біз жүздеген таланттар 24 сағат ішінде өз идеяларын нақты жобаларға айналдыратын бірегей алаң құрдық 🤝

🏆 Vote for ACM@NU at the NU Awards 🏆

This year, ACM@NU has been nominated in two categories:
✨ Academic Club of the Year - ACM
✨ Academic Event of the Year - HackNU/25

Over 2025-2026 academic year, we set record-breaking results and organized 7 major events:
🟡HackNU/25 - 24-hour hackathon, 800+ registered, 5 800 000 KZT prize pool
🟡HackNU/26 - 24-hour hackathon, 1 092 registered, 2 800 000 KZT prize pool
🟡NUOPEN 2025 - ICPC-styled competition, 301 registered, 1 000 000 KZT prize pool
🟡Women’s Hack Day 2025 - 3-round competition in math, ICPC, and product design for girls, 386 registered, 1 275 000 KZT prize pool
🟡Women in STEM Hackathon (WISH) - 24-hour hackathon for girls, 396 registered, 1 200 000 KZT prize pool
🟡Code Girl Summer 2025 - 2-week web development camp for girls + 48-hour hackathon, 196 applicants, 40 selected participants
🟡ACM HUB 2026 - informal experience-sharing meetup, 6 speakers, 50+ participants, outside of NU

💡 In total: thousands of participants, millions in prize pools, and real opportunities - many of our participants received internships after our events.

👀 Behind all of this - just students.
We find sponsors, build partnerships, and create large-scale events to grow IT in Kazakhstan and support women in tech (ACM SC 💙 & ACM-W SC 🩷).

We worked incredibly hard this year - and your vote would truly mean a lot to us. 🥹🫶

✉️ How to vote: Check your student email for a unique voting link. Please note that you can only vote once, so make it count!

👀We’ve wrapped up HackNU 2026, and we hope you enjoyed it. Here’s a quick recap.

9th annual hackathon
1000+ registered
700+ participants
2,800,000 ₸ prize pool

Two days of building, no sleep, real ideas turned into real projects.

Big thanks to everyone who made it happen. See you next year 🥴