04 / 26
HackNYU
Brooklyn, NY · Best Hardware
Custom mechanical keyboard that streams keystrokes as a live coding visualization.
↳ $3.5K + Keychron sponsor deal
★ 1ST
PENN STATE UNIVERSITY · UNIVERSITY PARK, PA
WE SHIP
while YOU
SLEEP.
Builders Collective is a department-funded team of Penn State engineers and designers. We travel to hackathons and build things.
WINS
06
HACKATHONS
14
SHIPPED
38
Trophy Case
03 / 26
HopHacks
Baltimore, MD · Grand Prize
Health-data coprocessor that runs HIPAA-compliant inference on the edge.
↳ $4K + JHU lab time
★ 1ST
02 / 26
MIT Reality Hack
Cambridge, MA · Immersive Track
Mixed-reality drum kit that reads air-gestures and lays down MIDI. Quest 3 + WebXR.
↳ $5K + Meta dev kits
★ 1ST
11 / 25
YaleHacks
New Haven, CT · Best Design
Spatial filesystem for music producers. Drag stems on a 3D canvas to mix.
↳ $3.5K + Figma Org
★ 1ST
10 / 25
HackHarvard '25
Cambridge, MA · Best Overall
Built a real-time multiplayer code-review tool in 36 hours. Beat 412 teams.
↳ $10K + Vercel Pro × 2yr
★ 1ST
09 / 25
PennApps XXV
Philadelphia, PA · Best Use of AI
Agent that audits research papers and flags methodology smells. Now used by 3 PSU labs.
↳ $5K + Anthropic credits
★ 1ST
Why ENTI?
ENTI is Penn State's intercollege minor in Entrepreneurship and Innovation, run out of the College of Engineering's School of Engineering Design and Innovation. It is open to every major. We build the projects; ENTI is where that work turns into credits, and where a weekend hack gets treated like the start of a venture.
- The coursework is the thing we already do on weekends — customer research, prototypes, pitching — with a grade attached.
- Open to all ten colleges, so the whole team can take it, not just the engineers.
- Finish the sequence and you leave with a minor or a certificate on your transcript, not only a repo.
MINOR 9 core + 9–10.5 cluster credits
Entrepreneurship & Innovation
Three core courses, then three more from one of ten concentration clusters. Engineering students usually take the Product Innovation cluster.
- MGMT 215 — Entrepreneurial Mindset
- ENGR 310 — Entrepreneurial Leadership
- ENGR 425 — New Venture Creation
CERTIFICATE 3 courses
Product Innovation
The shorter route. One required course plus two from the Product Innovation list — worth taking if the full minor does not fit your schedule.
- ENGR 411 — Business Fundamentals for Entrepreneurs
- ENGR 407 — Technology-Based Entrepreneurship
- ENGR 415 — Technology Launch for Entrepreneurs
Hackathon Log
| DATE | EVENT | PROJECT | STACK | RESULT |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| APR 19 '26 | HackNYU | keystroke.live | QMK · WebSerial · Three.js | ★ 1ST |
| MAR 28 '26 | HopHacks | edge-clinical | Rust · WASM · ONNX | ★ 1ST |
| FEB 14 '26 | TreeHacks | drift-detector | PyTorch · Modal · Postgres | FINALIST |
| FEB 01 '26 | MIT Reality Hack | airdrum | WebXR · Quest 3 · Tone.js | ★ 1ST |
| NOV 09 '25 | YaleHacks | stempile | Three.js · Web Audio · R3F | ★ 1ST |
| OCT 25 '25 | HackHarvard | cohere-review | Liveblocks · TS · tRPC | ★ 1ST |
| OCT 04 '25 | HackPrinceton | paperboy | Next.js · Anthropic API | TOP 5 |
| SEP 13 '25 | PennApps XXV | methodlint | Anthropic · LangGraph · Postgres | ★ 1ST |
| APR 12 '25 | CalHacks 11.0 | tinybench | Rust · Wasmtime | TOP 10 |
| MAR 01 '25 | BitCamp | repl.fm | Tauri · Web Audio | SHIPPED |
Our Team
President
Ishaan Narang
LinkedIn ↗Treasurer
Lance Streuber
LinkedIn ↗Vice President
Vidyut Sriram
LinkedIn ↗Event Planner
Varnika Yadav
LinkedIn ↗Head of Logistics
Devaj Solanki
LinkedIn ↗Outreach
Anusha Agarwal
LinkedIn ↗Outreach
Trivi Sunil
LinkedIn ↗Inner Comms
Abhinav Dasari
LinkedIn ↗Safety
Vedant Shirvi
LinkedIn ↗Engineering
Mat Manna
LinkedIn ↗Apply
BUILDERS
You ship. We pay travel.
No application rounds. Send us a repo, a design file, or anything you have built, and we will get back to you.
SPONSORS
$14k funded. $31k won.
Department funding covers travel and registration. In return: 38 shipped projects, six first-place finishes, and a standing invitation to recruit from the team.