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AI enthusiasts
Curious first, technical second. People who try the new thing before they know what to call it.
Curiosity
Student-led AI hackathon/Hangzhou, CN
BuildBeyondIdeas.
A new generation of builders.
A student-founded place for young people to build real AI products — beginning in Hangzhou.
First event in planning / Spring 2027
00 / ManifestoA note on the name
Ideas arenot static.They areAssembled.
Assembly / 05 modulesFormed
HackMeld is a student-founded AI hackathon and technology community beginning in Hangzhou. We make room for young builders to find collaborators, test an idea and ship a working product.
从使用技术，到亲手创造。
A meld is a joining.
Different people, skills and technologies, brought together until something holds. The work is not the idea. The work is what the idea becomes when other people touch it.
Build beyond ideas.
01 / What is HackMeldDefinition / working draft
Not a course.Not a showcase.A working room.
HackMeld is building a place where students can turn curiosity about AI into something they can actually run, test and show. The first chapter is a two-day hackathon in Hangzhou — currently being designed, not announced.
The point is not to talk about the future. It is to make a small, real piece of it with other people.
A / Who
High school students first
Connected to a wider community of young builders, designers, developers and organisers.
B / What
A two-day AI hackathon
Find a team, choose a problem, build a working MVP and show it. The first edition is in planning.
C / Where
Hangzhou, China
Starting local. Wider connections are an ambition, not a claim about what already exists.
- Audience
- High school
- Format
- Offline / 2 days
- Scale
- 50–100 / planned
- Status
- In planning
02 / The building processInteractive / draft experience
Six movesfrom questionto something real.
The process we are designing around. It is a draft, not a confirmed schedule — final rules will be published before registration opens.
Scroll to move through the sequence, select a stage, or use the arrow keys.
Stage01 / 06
Find a team
01 — 06Draft sequence
From a first question to a working demo. Every stage is part of one build, not a checklist to finish alone.
Stage 1: Find a team
The building process is a planning draft. Team rules, judging and the final schedule are still being defined.
03 / Who we bring togetherHigh school students first
Different skills.Shared thingsto build.
HackMeld is being built around the idea that better products come from more than one kind of mind. The room is better when the people in it do not all think the same way.
Six groups. One room. No single required background.
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Independent developers
Students who ship on their own time and have opinions about how things should work.
Code
03
Student founders
Building before university. Willing to test an idea in public while it is still unfinished.
Ventures
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Designers
Making the product make sense: interface, story, hierarchy and the last ten percent.
Design
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Creative technologists
Working between code, image and interaction. Interested in what the tool makes possible.
Experiment
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Young entrepreneurs
Finding the real use case. Asking who needs this, who pays for it and what happens next.
Product
The meld / three skillsSelect up to three
What happens when different skills share a room?
Select the perspectives you would put on one team. The equation is the point: a product is a combination, not a solo performance.
Current meld
AI curious + Developers + Designers = A real product.
03 / 03Team composition
High school students first. Connected to a wider builder community.
Meet the community04 / First editionHACKMELD / 001
HackMeld / First edition
In planningA first buildin Hangzhou.
An offline, AI-focused hackathon for high school students. Different skills, one team, two days to make something a person can actually try.
An offline, AI-focused hackathon for high school students, planned for Hangzhou. The scale is a planning range. Date, venue and registration are not confirmed.
- City
- Hangzhou, China
- Audience
- High school students
- Format
- Offline / two days
- Theme
- AI × Entrepreneurship
- Scale
- 50–100
- Date
- To be announced
- Venue
- To be announced
- Registration
- Registration not open
Planning range
50–100
Participants / planning range
Position
Hangzhou / CN
Offline / 2 days
Status: Registration not open. No date, venue, sponsor or registration link is confirmed. Do not book travel for an unconfirmed event.
HACKMELD / 001 — a planning document, not an announcement.
Build beyond ideas.
05 / Begin / Why HackMeldThe first build
The first build is a beginning. Not the whole story.
Meaningful work can start before university.
Different skills make better products.
Opportunity should reach beyond the classroom.
HackMeld is in early development. The first edition is being designed as an offline AI hackathon for high school students in Hangzhou. Dates, venue and registration are not confirmed.
Build beyond ideas.Hangzhou / 2027 — planned