Terms and Conditions of the AI in Education Hackathon

• Promote the use of Artificial Intelligence to develop solutions to real and specific challenges faced by educational programs and institutions in the region.
• Foster learning around the critical, pedagogical, ethical, and inclusive use of AI among diverse stakeholders across the region.
• Identify valuable experiences in technical and vocational education and training that integrate AI to develop skills for the world of work.
• Create a space for knowledge exchange on the use of AI in education by encouraging the collaborative development of educational solutions that benefit the community.
• Generate information regarding the criteria, processes, tools, and products involved in the solutions developed.

• School leaders, individual educators, teaching teams, or entire educational institutions at all educational levels and modalities from primary education onward, with particular attention to those involved in Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET).
• Civil Society Organizations (CSOs).

The Hackathon is built around three pillars:

1. Challenges

Challenges may focus on the design, implementation, or evidence-based analysis of strategies, processes, or tools within educational institutions and programs in the following categories:

• Teaching disciplinary content
• Technical and vocational education and skills development for the world of work (excluding digital education)
• Promotion of digital education and the critical and ethical use of AI
• AI-assisted learning assessment
• Diversification and personalization of learning, including the addressing of educational gaps and special educational needs
• Well-being, school climate, and socio-emotional development
• Diagnosis, administration, organization, and/or planning of educational services

2. Beneficiaries

Beneficiaries are the individuals or groups within the educational community for whom the solutions developed through the Hackathon are intended. They may include:

• Government entities
• School supervision or inspection bodies
• School leadership
• Teaching professionals
• Students
• Families or guardians of students

3. Areas

The areas refer to the educational levels and modalities in which the solutions developed through the Hackathon will be implemented.

For solutions to be included in the repository and be eligible for participation in the raffle referenced in this call, participants must complete a closing participation process through an instrument (hereinafter the Participation Completion Instrument) provided by the Educational Portal of the Americas (EPA).

This Participation Completion Instrument must be completed only once per practice or solution, regardless of the number of individuals involved in its design, implementation, or analysis.

A dedicated Virtual Community (hereinafter, the Community) will be established within the Educational Portal of the Americas. The information will be maintained as a repository and may be updated for future editions.

This Hackathon will run from September 16 to October 23, 2026.

Registered solutions must correspond to the available options within each of the Hackathon pillars (challenge category, beneficiaries, and areas).

Individuals or teams must complete:

1. Registration to participate in the Hackathon.
2. Completion of the Participation Completion Instrument (available beginning October 1).

In addition, the Hackathon will include the following optional participation opportunities:

1. An experience-sharing session via Zoom (date to be determined between October 1 and October 11).
2. A virtual forum and/or Community platform space for exchanging presentations at the start of the Hackathon and reflections and conclusions at its conclusion (date to be determined between October 19 and October 23).
3. Virtual seminars organized by the Educational Portal of the Americas providing informational content on AI.
4. A results dissemination seminar to be held virtually on November 11, 2026.

During the results dissemination seminar, the Educational Portal of the Americas will conduct a raffle for at least five educational licenses for AI software designed for education (hereinafter, the Software).

Eligible Participants

• School leaders and/or educators working in public or private educational institutions officially recognized at the primary, secondary, and tertiary/higher education levels, in all modalities.
• Civil Society Organizations from countries in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Once the results are released, the EPA may identify outstanding practices and invite them to participate in specialized workshops organized by the Educational Portal of the Americas.

The EPA will award participants a Recognition of Participation, which does not constitute an official certification issued by educational authorities.

To submit a solution to the Hackathon, applicants must complete all required information in the Registration Form, available on the Educational Portal of the Americas website.

Any questions regarding the submission of an initiative may be directed by email to portal@oas.org.

The organizers will communicate with participants through the email addresses and telephone numbers provided in the Registration Form