The UK Generative AI Student Hack by AWS

Deadline: November 21, 2025 @ 9:00 AM GMT

Calling All UK Student Innovators!

Welcome to the PartyRock Generative AI Hackathon by AWS: a challenge for all builders to get hands-on making generative AI-powered apps. In this challenge, you’ll use PartyRock, an Amazon Bedrock Playground as a fast and fun way to learn about Prompt Engineering and Foundational Models (FMs) to build a functional app with generative AI. Experiment with prompts to build an app based on one of three challenge categories (sustainabillity, healthcare, and cybersecurity).

Who Should Join?

• Curious students who want to explore AI

• Anyone interested in technology (no coding required!)

• Students looking to add amazing projects to their portfolio

• Creative minds with big ideas

Why participate?

• Learn cool new AI skills

• Create an actual working app

• Stand out in your future career

• Have fun while building something awesome

• Win prizes including Amazon Echo Devices and more!

What to build

Your Challenge: Create a PartyRock app to address a challenge in one of the following areas:

  • Sustainability- tackles an environmental problem
  • Healthcare- helps improve health and wellness in your community
  • Cybersecurity- makes the digital world safer pick any cyber topic that interests you!

What to submit

  1. Link to your AWS PartyRock Project
  2. Answer all submission questions
  3. Optional, but recommended: ~90-second demo video, record a short video interacting with the app you created on PartyRock. Check out the Inspiration tab for ideas and tips on making an awesome demo video.

All submissions due November 21st, 2025.

Final presentation

Projects submitted on Devpost will be reviewed by the judges.

First, Second, and Third prize winners will be chosen for each theme.

Good luck!

Who can participate

  • Ages 18+ only (Terms of Service for PartyRock)
  • Participants must be studying at a university or a college in the UK
  • No cloud or IT skills required - we have separate challenges for technical and non-technical students
  • Suitable for teams or individuals (no more than 3 per team).

Project requirements‍

  • URL to PartyRock app
  • Max team size (3)

Webinars

Webex webinar recording: Using Prompts and Prompt Engineering for Students

Recording link: https://awsvirtual.webex.com/awsvirtual/ldr.php?RCID=2f9a7c1c3f359c69b5f6c24001f79f7a

‍Password: VpMUwTJ6‍

Webex webinar recording: Practicing Generative AI Responsibly for Students

Recording link: https://awsvirtual.webex.com/awsvirtual/ldr.php?RCID=df30e048703d2370be09932807b7d829

‍Password: xFJD74Ts

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