🥇 1st Place — MindMirror (Taurus) Final Score: 4.312/5.00 Awards: 1st Place ($1,000) + Best Impact & Vision + Best Innovation + Best User Experience + Best Presentation ($400) = $1,400
A passive burnout detection system that monitors digital footprints through a Chrome extension integrated with GitHub and Google Calendar. Identifies deterioration patterns before users recognize them, triggering interventions including dynamic monochrome mode and anti-doomscroll blocking. Supabase backend with behavioral pattern analysis.
"Standout project! Passive burnout detection via digital footprint is highly innovative. Chrome extension + Supabase + GitHub/Calendar integrations show strong technical depth." — Ishu Anand Jaiswal
🥈 2nd Place — MeFirst (LoopTroop) Final Score: 3.850/5.00 Awards: 2nd Place ($300) + Best Execution ($100) = $400
A platform combining human wellness coaching with AI-assisted support. Structured onboarding, coach matching workflow, values wheel progress tracking, and HIPAA-aware session management. Centers human therapeutic relationships with AI augmentation rather than replacement.
"This is a well-designed platform combining human wellness coaching with AI-assisted support. The HIPAA-aware design and session management features show good consideration for real-world deployment." — Karthick Cherladine
🥉 3rd Place — Serenity (Sanjay Sah) Final Score: 3.831/5.00 Awards: 3rd Place = $200
An AI mental health companion distinguished by ethical architecture: AES-256-GCM encryption, dedicated ETHICS.md, crisis resource integration, WCAG compliance, and AI safety guardrails. Covers mood tracking, journaling, habits, goals, and AI assistant.
"Serenity is a thoughtful and well-designed mental health companion that demonstrates a strong balance between technical implementation and ethical responsibility." — Saugat Nayak
MindLint (Team Batman) — 3.800/5.00 Cognitive observability for developers — treats mental strain as a system metric to be monitored and alerted on, applying DevOps thinking to mental health.
Haven (Haven) — 3.762/5.00 Gamified wellness engagement through interactive mechanics, building mental health habits through play rather than clinical interfaces.
MindTrace (MindTracer) — 3.731/5.00 Mental wellness platform with exceptional user experience. Demo described as "outstanding and faithful" with a design that "sets a very high bar for presentation."
REFRAME (beTheNOOB) — 3.719/5.00 Workplace wellness integration across Slack, Discord, and support dashboards. Intercepts high-stress messages before they're sent, embedding intervention where communication breakdowns actually happen.
Echo (Team Flow) — 3.556/5.00 Passive burnout detection through typing pattern analysis — analyzing keystroke dynamics as biomarkers for cognitive strain.
Rewordit (Team Dua) — 3.512/5.00 Cross-platform high-stress message interception across Gmail, Slack, and Twitter. Catches emotionally charged messages before sending.
The Room (Thrixel) — 3.500/5.00 Journaling reimagined as card-based interactions with ML-ranked content and expert guidance. 72 commits showing sustained iterative development. One of the most visually refined submissions.
NeuroFog (NeuroFog) — 3.425/5.00 Fog-of-mind detection and clarity restoration toolkit for cognitive health.
EmberMind (SecondWind) — 3.381/5.00 Wellness companion focusing on sustained engagement through motivational design patterns.
Determined by LinkedIn community vote following the evaluation period.
Submissions were scored against five weighted criteria: Impact & Vision (35%), Execution (25%), Innovation (20%), User Experience (15%), and Presentation (5%). 38 judges evaluated 21 submissions across three batches, producing detailed written feedback for every project.
The panel included Arun Kumar Elengovan, Director of Security Engineering at Okta, specializing in cloud security, identity infrastructure, and AI-driven defense systems. Madhushree Kumari from Visa brought expertise in enterprise platforms and scalable systems. Nikita Klimov from ADP contributed deep knowledge of workforce technology and software systems. Nandagopal Seshagiri from Okta evaluated identity and access patterns critical for health data protection. Dinesh Kumar Garg, Senior IT Manager and Enterprise Systems Architect at Honeywell, provided rigorous assessment grounded in enterprise systems management and applied AI. Siarhei Krupenich, Senior Mobile Engineer at Allegis Group, brought cross-platform systems engineering perspective. Manushi Sheth, Engineering Leader at Sonos, contributed expertise in data analytics and machine learning operationalization. Sarthak Shah, a Software Engineer and contributor to the Chromium project, provided a systems-level view informed by scalable infrastructure. Giridhar Raj Singh Chowhan from Microsoft brought software development expertise to the evaluation process.
These evaluators worked alongside 29 additional judges from across the global engineering community.
21 teams. 72 hours. Software for human health. Total Prize Pool: $2,500 February 27 – March 2, 2026 | Judging: March 3–14, 2026
