🌟 Challenge Title:

“Hack for Hope: Driving Innovation Toward Lupus Awareness & Cure”

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💡 Overview:

Lupus is a complex autoimmune disease with no known cure — yet. At LupusHack 2025, students, developers, researchers, designers, and advocates come together to brainstorm and build solutions that support those affected by Lupus, raise awareness, and explore scientific paths toward treatment and cure.

This is more than a competition — it’s a mission. Whether you're passionate about medicine, data, design, or storytelling, you can make a difference.

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🔬 Tracks & Themes:

Participants can choose from the following challenge tracks:

1. Awareness & Education

Design tools, websites, or campaigns that help people better understand Lupus, its symptoms, and its challenges.

2. Support & Wellness Tools

Build apps or platforms for tracking symptoms, medication, mental health support, or connecting Lupus warriors.

3. Data & Research

Analyze real or synthetic health data to detect patterns, suggest treatment responses, or support early diagnosis.

4. Path to Cure

Explore ideas around emerging therapies (AI, genetics, immunology) that might one day lead to breakthroughs in Lupus treatment.

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🧠 Example Project Ideas:

• A mobile app for symptom tracking & journaling

• An interactive platform for patient stories and awareness

• A chatbot that explains Lupus to young people

• A visualization of global Lupus data trends

• A concept proposal for an AI-assisted diagnosis tool

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👥 Who Can Participate:

• High school & college students

• Developers, designers, health advocates

• Solo or team entries (up to 4 people)

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🧑‍⚖️ Judging Criteria:

Category	Description
Innovation	Is it creative and original?
Impact	Could it truly help Lupus patients or research?
Feasibility	Can this realistically be built or scaled?
Presentation	Is the idea clearly and passionately presented?

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🏆 Prizes:

• 🥇 Innovation for Hope Award

• 🥈 Best Awareness Solution

• 🥉 Data for Cure Award

• 💜 Lupus Warrior’s Choice (voted by patients)

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✨ Why This Matters:

There are over 5 million people living with Lupus worldwide, many undiagnosed. By building technology, tools, and ideas that promote understanding, accessibility, and research, you’ll help bring us one step closer to a future with better treatments — or even a cure.