HACKTHEARCADE
A 30-hour premium hackathon experience at Vidyavardhini's College of Engineering & Technology — packed with neon energy, bold ideas, and real prizes.
WELCOME TO ARCADE.
WHERE PIXELS TURN INTO REAL IMPACT.
VCET Hackathon 2026 "Arcade" is not just another 30-hour coding marathon. It is an immersive battleground where developers, designers, and visionaries transform individual pixels of logic into high-impact digital solutions.
Stepping into the Arcade means embracing high-stakes problem solving, fast-paced prototyping, and collaborative engineering. From machine intelligence and decentralized web frameworks to next-gen developer tools, every level challenges you to push beyond comfortable boundaries.
Fuel your passion, collaborate with top talent across India, and present your creation before industry leaders to claim your share of the ₹85,000 jackpot. Insert your coin, assemble your squad, and press start!
SELECT YOUR BATTLEFIELD
Choose from 5 official competition tracks. Build high-impact solutions, push technical boundaries, and claim your share of the ₹85,000 jackpot.
Application Scaling
Develop dynamic solutions that seamlessly expand system capacity to handle surging user traffic and heavy workloads without performance drops.
Application Security
Architect robust safeguards and innovative defenses to protect applications, infrastructure, and user data from evolving cyber threats.
Application Logging & Monitoring
Create intelligent observability tools that capture system events in real-time to proactively detect anomalies, trace bugs, and ensure application health.
Application Data Management
Design efficient architectures for securely storing, processing, migrating, and retrieving complex application data at scale.
Application Building Pipelines/Processing
Automate and optimize the software delivery lifecycle by designing highly efficient CI/CD workflows and data processing architectures.
READY TO HACK IN ONE OF THESE DOMAINS?
Form your team of 3–4 members and register on Unstop to lock in your slot.
EVENT TIMELINE & LEVELS
Navigate through stage checkpoints from Level 01 to the Final Boss.
Registration
Registration round and Abstract submission. Upload a combined abstract PDF for any 2 problem statements out of the given 5 during registration (only PDF file). Follow the given template for Abstract PPT.
Registration
Registration round and Abstract submission. Upload a combined abstract PDF for any 2 problem statements out of the given 5 during registration (only PDF file). Follow the given template for Abstract PPT.
Registration
Registration round and Abstract submission. Upload a combined abstract PDF for any 2 problem statements out of the given 5 during registration (only PDF file). Follow the given template for Abstract PPT.
Shortlisting
Shortlisted participants will be notified via mail.
Shortlisting
Shortlisted participants will be notified via mail.
Shortlisting
Shortlisted participants will be notified via mail.
Payment
Shortlisted Participants have to pay registration fees (before 22nd August).
Payment
Shortlisted Participants have to pay registration fees (before 22nd August).
Payment
Shortlisted Participants have to pay registration fees (before 22nd August).
THE REWARD VAULT
Five teams make the leaderboard. One team takes home the grand bounty.
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