The School of Computer Science and Statistics is proud to celebrate the outstanding achievements of our students at HackEurope 2026, the inaugural edition of Europe's largest student hackathon, which took place on 21–22 February across three simultaneous locations: Trinity Business School in Dublin, Centrale Supélec in Paris, and Norrsken House in Stockholm.
Over 1,000 student builders took on a 30-hour overnight hackathon, and SCSS students were central to it’s success, not just as participants, but as organisers who helped make the event a reality.
Current SCSS students Liam Power, Hubert Stanowski, Timothy Tay, Manon Galian, Rachel Ranjith, Ishan Jain, and Faith Olopade, plus SCSS alumnus Billy Ly were all part of the core organising team, contributing directly to the event's vision, logistics, and delivery. For full-time students to organise a multinational event of this scale, coordinating across three countries and hundreds of participants is truly remarkable
We are further delighted to share that three of the four members of the overall winning team are SCSS students - Julian Lewandowski, Aditya Joshi, and Eniola Olumeyan. They took home the top prize with their wildfire intelligence platform, ZeroStrike.
Three of the John G Byrne Scholars were also among the participants last weekend. Roisín Eaves and Adda Fatima developed a fintech assistant to help new entrepreneurs focus on creating innovative products and become financially literate. Travis Yusuf's team built tool that measures the real carbon cost of your digital life across your laptop, phone, and AI usage, aggregating data across users and automatically offsetting emissions through verified carbon removal.
This video captures the scale and excitement at the event: https://tinyurl.com/38wd86ws
To all of our SCSS students who took part…. well done!
The School was delighted to sponsor HackEurope 2026, alongside many other partners who share our belief in the power of student-led innovation.