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Builders Collective Est. 2025

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  1. c0mpiled-15 wrapped Seven hours of building at Penn State, two tracks, $10,000+ in prizes.

Builders Collective presents

c0mpiled-15

When
· 12–9 PM EDT
Where
Engineering Design & Innovation Building, Penn State · University Park, PA
Prizes
$10,000+

Seven hours of building. Meet your next collaborators and put your ideas to the test. All majors, all experience levels.

Track 01 · Transpose Platform

Build with AI

Create a self-improving agent team with Luminal, or tackle a Y Combinator Request for Startups.

Track 02 · Engineering Entrepreneurship

Build. Validate. Sell.

Find a real problem, build your product, and make actual sales during the hackathon.

Schedule & sponsors
  1. 11:00 AMDoors & team formation
  2. 11:40 AMIntroductions & challenges
  3. 12–7 PMBuilding
  4. 7:00 PMJudging & demos
  5. 8:15 PMAwards & closing
  • Transpose Platform $5,000 prize pool Track 1: $3,000 / $1,500 / $500.
  • Luminal (YC S25) 100 inference credits Build with models on Luminal Cloud.
  • Engineering Entrepreneurship $3,000 in prizes Build and validate through real sales.
  • Bloomerang $2,000 in prizes Prizes across the product validation track.
  • AGI, Inc $500 prize Best individual project.
  • Builders Collective A fully funded trip First place: travel with BC to another hackathon.

Also supported by Red Bull and MongoDB.