The Qiskit Community Summer Jam is a series of online hackathons held around the world. The Qiskit team partners with local leaders in different regions to run a hackathon for their community. The goal is to recreate the feeling of a campus hackathon - getting together with your friends and colleagues to build and compete against each other, while learning new skills along the way. Summer Jam hackathons are open to everyone, from high school students just getting started with quantum to grad students who have been studying qubits for years.
Now that the first round of hackathons is complete, the Qiskit team is opening up this opportunity worldwide. We love to partner with motivated people who don't mind volunteering their time and energy to make an awesome event happen. While education is our focus, Summer Jam events are not restricted to students only. Our goal is to grow local quantum communities and encourage more people, no matter who you are, to try building a project with Qiskit.
Successful Summer Jams have at least 40 driven participants who are ready to build something new. If you're interested in hosting a Summer Jam in your area, apply here to lead the way.
The first round of hackathons ran from June 24th - July 1st. Click the name of each Summer Jam to see the full list of projects submitted.
NC State, UNC Chapel Hill, Duke, and other North Carolina area schools. The wining team is the Quantum Ducks with the project "QuBayes: The Quantum Bayesian Circuit Builder for All." An Honorable Mention goes to team Ube Pancake with the project "Quantum Deep Learning with Qiskit & PyTorch"
Yale, MIT, Harvard, Boston University, NYU, and other New England area schools. The winning team is team Shabani with the project "Wavefunction Generation as Noise Evaluation"
Michigan State University, University of Chicago, University of Michigan, and other Illinois & Michigan area schools. The winning team is QuarantineQbits with the project "Exploring Localization and Excited States with VQE"
Stanford, UC Irvine, and other California area schools. The winning team is R-Lab Best Lab with the project "Quid Pro Quo"
We're in the middle of planning Phase Two right now. If you're interested in hosting a Summer Jam in your area, apply here!
All projects use Qiskit, the open source framework for quantum computing. Full contest terms and rules can be found here.
In partnership with students from CU Boulder, Colorado School of Mines, and many more! If you're in the Colorado community, join today. Postponed until later in Fall
Organized by researchers and members of UCD, this hackathon is primarily for students at UCD but is also open to qiskitters from the Dublin community at large. Hacking begins August 13th.
More info coming soon...
