Meet the winning teams from the 2026 SF Hacks X GDG AI Hackathon

Team: Patrick Funke Rapp and Minyoung Park

GatorPlate turns leftover food into a campus-wide alert in 15 seconds: snap a photo, and AI writes the post and points it on the map.

Student organizations at SFSU often end evening events with leftover food. SF State's Gator Grub Alert is a great program run by Basic Needs, but only trained staff and faculty can post to it, usually through a web console. At 8 PM, when the event wraps up, a staff member is rarely around to post on the club's behalf. The food gets thrown away while students who would gladly eat it never find out.

GatorPlate is a native iOS app that lets student leaders post leftover food themselves in seconds, and lets other students discover it instantly.

Team: Josiah Jardine, Diego Rosen, Shehryar Hassan

PlanEd: plan your SFSU degree with an AI that has to follow the rules.

PlanEd turns the SFSU Bulletin into a live, interactive degree map. Google Gemini does the planning and explaining. A rules engine checks every move against official SFSU policy.

• Onboarding chat: a few quick questions (your major from all 117 SFSU bachelor's programs, semesters done, courses taken, graduation goal, career goal).
• Auto Plan: Gemini drafts a four-year plan around your career goal. The rules engine checks it. If anything breaks a rule, Gemini gets the exact errors and repairs the plan, so you never see an invalid plan.
• Evaluate: Gemini reads your plan and explains where it's heading, which career paths fit, and which course swaps would help. Every swap is re-checked by the engine before it's shown.
• Gator, the AI pet: watches your plan live. It tells you what to add next until you hit full-time units, fills a semester course by course with a reason for each, and evaluates your plan by itself once the credits are met.
• Two views:
  • Cards, by year, to edit your plan.
  • A game-style prerequisite graph: courses are bubbles, semesters are levels, and an XP bar fills toward 120 units. Click a course to see what it unlocks.
• Real GE courses: 938 SFSU GE courses, grouped by area, that you can drag into any semester.
• Errors you can fix: a course placed too early turns red, says why, and offers "Move it to Spring 2028" in one click.
• Export for SFSU: a one-page plan of your next semester to bring to your advisor.

Team: Shokhabbos Mukhammatov

Throughline finds what your SF State class assumes you already know, checks it in 8 questions, and plans your review before the class that needs it.

Prerequisites say a student is ready, but at SF State many students arrive without what a course assumes. "Or equivalent", waivers and instructor permission let students in without the material, some courses assume things no prerequisite teaches, and a summer off erases much of a spring course. Nobody sees the gap until the student is already behind.