AETHOS - Day Zero

If civilization had to begin again tomorrow, what would humanity build first? Unlike conventional hackathons that ask participants to build products around a technology, DAY ZERO challenges teams to engineer the foundations of an entirely new civilization.

Participants are encouraged to think beyond applications and incremental improvements. Every project should solve a meaningful challenge that contributes to rebuilding society whether through communication, energy, healthcare, infrastructure, education, resilience, exploration, or entirely new approaches that redefine the future. This is not about recreating yesterday. It is about engineering tomorrow. The Mission: