HAIRATHON 2025
Innovating at the root of hair science.
Join an AI-ML hackathon that connects student innovators with real-world haircare challenges. Learn, build, and compete for prizes and internships while contributing to meaningful datasets and models in haircare.
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Hackathon Registration
Register for Hairscope HAIRATHON 2025 before November 16 so we can ship your team kit before the Orientation Week.
About the Challenge
Hairscope Hairathon 2025 invites teams from colleges, universities and academic institutions to solve a real-world hair care challenge by measuring hair parameters using AI-ML. Participants will be provided with USB trichoscopy devices and guided training during Orientation Week, after which they will have six weeks to develop their models addressing the problem statement. The exact problem statement will be released when the hackathon begins - so come prepared to innovate.
Education & Mentorship
Orientation Week will cover device usage, best practices for data capture, annotation workflows, and model training basics.
Impact & Prizes
Your work will help create datasets and models that can directly improve hair-health diagnostics and clinical treatment decisions.
Recruitment
Top teams will be considered for paid internships and potential roles at Hairscope and our partners.
Hackathon Schedule
From registrations and orientation to submission and results - here’s the complete timeline of Hairscope Hairathon 2025 so you can stay prepared at every step.
Oct 06 - Nov 16, 2025
Phase 1 : Registration
Nov 24 - Nov 28, 2025
Phase 2 : Orientation and AI/ML Workshop
Dec 1, 2025 - Jan 15, 2026
Phase 3 : Hackathon
Jan 30, 2026
Result Declaration
Judging Criteria
- Data Quality & Completeness – 30%
- Model Accuracy & Robustness – 30%
- Innovation in Approach – 20%
- Demo & Report – 20%
Prizes
- 1st Prize : ₹25,000 + Paid Internship
- 2nd Prize : ₹15,000
- 3rd Prize : ₹10,000
- Special Prizes : For high-performing teams.
- All Participants : Swag and Certificate.
Frequently Asked Questions
Explore the most common queries about Hairscope Hairathon 2025, from who can participate to what you’ll need to submit. Before you dive in, take a look at these frequently asked questions.
Hairscope Hairathon 2025 is open to undergraduate, postgraduate, and PhD students, as well as other academic researchers enrolled in universities or colleges across India.
Each team must consist of 4–6 members.
All team members must be from same academic institutions.
Registration opens on September 22, 2025, and closes on October 17, 2025.
Yes. The entry fee is ₹350 per member, which also includes Team Kit and goodies for each participant.
The hackathon starts on November 3, 2025, when the problem statement is released, and ends on December 15, 2025, which is the final submission deadline.
Each team must submit:
- Annotated dataset
- Model code and trained weights
- Report (approach, results, challenges)
- A 5–7 minute demo video
Orientation Week will be held from November 24 – 28, 2025. It will include online and offline webinars on how AI models are trained, exploring the fundamentals of annotation and data labeling with our partner platform.
Not necessarily! While basic knowledge of AI/ML concepts will help, Orientation Week will cover essentials, and your teamwork and problem-solving skills will matter the most.
Yes. During Orientation Week, mentors will guide participants on device usage and technical workflows. Additional guidance will be provided only if unusual issues are noticed during the hackathon.
No. The devices are provided for the duration of the hackathon and must be returned after the event.
Results will be announced on January 12, 2026, via email and Hairscope’s website and social media channels.