bit-africa/cursor-mozambique-hackerthon

# CURSOR Mozambique Hackerthon 2026 🌊FloodGuard Mozambique - Build for Resilience ##### A Cursor Hackathon · Organised by BIT Academy > [!IMPORTANT] > **⚡ Coding Challenge** - Use **Cursor** to build a working tool that helps a Mozambican community **prepare** for, **survive**, or **recover** from a flood. It must work for real people — **mobile-first**, in **Portuguese**, and **usable on a slow connection**.. --- ## Table of Contents - About the Event - The Challenge & Tracks - Requirements & Rules - Schedule (Run of Show) - Resources - Judging Criteria - Claiming Your Cursor Credits - Submission Checklist - Winners & Prizes --- ## About the Event | | | |---|---| | **Event type** | One-day developer build challenge (hackathon) | | **Theme** | Flood preparedness, response & recovery in Mozambique | | **Core tool** | Cursor — used live for planning, coding, debugging & refactoring | | **Organised by** | BIT Academy | | **Venue** | Faculdade de Engenharia, Maputo | | **Date & Time** | Saturday, 4 July 2026 · 10:00 AM | The 2025/26 rainy and cyclone season has been one of the worst in a generation. This hackathon asks participants to ship a working prototype that helps a real community — built mobile-first, in Portuguese, for low-bandwidth conditions. Goals: - **Showcase Cursor** as a force-multiplier — proving how much a small team can build in a single day when AI handles the heavy lifting. - **Produce genuinely useful ideas** — prototypes that could be developed further into tools for responders, volunteers, and at-risk communities. --- ## The Challenge & Tracks Teams pick **one of four tracks**. Each track keeps the theme tight while leaving room for creativity: | Track | Focus | What teams might build | |-------|-------|------------------------| | **1 · Alerta** | Early warning | Crowd-sourced or sensor-fed water-level reporting that pushes warnings to at-risk neighbourhoods. Bonus: works over SMS / USSD or fully offline. | | **2 · R …