SK Hynix to Judge AI Skills, Not Academic Background, at “AI Hackathon 2026”
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SK hynix announced the “SK hynix AI Hackathon 2026” on the 21st, with a total prize pool of KRW 100 million.
Applications will be accepted through a separate website from today through the 28th, and academic information such as school attended, major, and GPA, as well as development experience, will not be included in evaluation or eligibility requirements.
The competition will consist of two online preliminary rounds and an in-person final, which will be held on November 11 at COEX in Samseong-dong, Gangnam-gu, Seoul.
SK hynix announced on the 21st that it will hold the “SK hynix AI Hackathon 2026.” The competition will offer a total prize pool of KRW 100 million. Applications will be accepted through a separate website from today through the 28th.
The competition is focused on evaluating applicants’ AI-based problem-solving capabilities rather than background information such as academic history or major. Accordingly, no education-related information, including school attended, major, or GPA, will be collected during the application process. Development experience is also not a separate eligibility requirement.
The contest will be held in the form of two online preliminary rounds and an in-person final. The online preliminaries will assess basic AI usage skills and AI literacy. In this process, various tools for evaluating AI utilization capabilities will be used, including Krafton’s AI-native recruiting and evaluation solution, “Cofa-Probe,” and OpenAI will participate as a partner in “Cofa-Probe.”
The evaluation criteria are the process and results of defining a problem and deriving solutions using AI. In the overall assessment, including the final, judges will look at the process of problem definition, AI use, and result verification. The competition was designed to examine how participants define problems and use AI to create and verify solutions.
The final will be held on November 11 at COEX in Samseong-dong, Gangnam-gu, Seoul. The judging panel will consist of experts in AI and semiconductors, and winners will be selected through a comprehensive evaluation of AI-based assessment results, participants’ problem-solving process, and deliverables.
All finalists will receive an AI competency certificate regardless of whether they win an award. Among final participants, those with outstanding capabilities will be given fast-track opportunities, including possible future SK hynix recruitment support.
An AI trend seminar will also be held on the day of the final. The seminar will feature practitioners from SK hynix, OpenAI, and Krafton and will focus on AI-related topics. The seminar will also be open to the general public, and details on how to attend will be announced on the competition website.
A SK hynix official said the hackathon was organized to allow participants to demonstrate how they use AI and their problem-solving capabilities regardless of their school, major, or academic background. The official added that the company hopes participants from diverse backgrounds will take on new challenges and confirm their capabilities.
Source: TECHWORLD · Park Gyu-chan
Original: https://www.epnc.co.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=407224
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