Awards & competitions · 2023–2026

Awards and hackathons

The biggest wins first, everything else grouped below. Taking part is listed as taking part.

Launchpad prize, October 2026: USD 100,000
wins and first places: 7
hackathon wins since 2025: 3

Highlights

The biggest wins

The Kobe team on stage holding the Launchpad champion cheque over USD 100,000

Marvin in front of an illuminated sign reading Kobe, Launchpad Champion

Marvin at a laptop in the Launchpad build hall, a wooden Kobe sign on the table

Win

USD 100,000

Launchpad by Stan

Winner on Demo Day

Won with Kobe AI as Founding Engineer: 30 teams, selected from about 700 applications.

Oct 2026 · Pennsylvania, USA

Result as announced to the teams; written confirmation pending.

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Two-week startup competition. With Kobe AI as Founding Engineer I kept shipping the product throughout (about 470 commits) and built the investor pitch deck. The team won after the final investor pitch on Demo Day, among about 30 international startups. USD 100,000 prize, no equity.

launchpad.stan.com

Three students with certificates at the Jugend forscht national final

Four students and a juror with certificates at the Jugend forscht national final

The team at the AI Pneumonia Detection stand with posters and a screen

Win

State winner

Jugend forscht 2024

Thuringia, plus the DGUV special prize at the 59th national final

A CNN system that detects pneumonia on chest X-rays; team of three.

Feb – Jun 2024 · Weimar · Jena · Heilbronn

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Regional winner in Weimar, first prize at the Thuringian state round in Jena plus two special awards, and the special prize of the German Social Accident Insurance (DGUV) at the 59th national final in Heilbronn, for a CNN system that detects pneumonia on chest X-rays. Team of three.

The project

Hackathon wins

All three as a team, all three with AWS as a partner.

Win Jun 2026 · Frankfurt

AWS World Sports Innovation Cup 2026

AWS with adidas, DFL and Slalom

“Connected Arena”, a fan engagement concept and prototype; pitched in the final.

Result as announced to the teams; certificate pending.

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Global student hackathon, challenge “Connected Arena”: concept and prototype for real-time fan engagement. Team of three; we pitched in the final at the DFB Campus in Frankfurt on 16 June 2026.
Win May 2025 · Berlin

Siemens × AWS Hackathon “ReThink Recycling”

Siemens Professional Education, Werner-von-Siemens Centre and AWS

Real-time trash detection on a live camera feed, with YOLOv8.

Result as announced to the teams; certificate pending.

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YOLOv8 instance segmentation, a threaded inference pipeline tuned to run smoothly on a CPU (FP16, 320 px), and Flask MJPEG streaming into a browser dashboard.
Win Apr 2025 · Frankfurt

Bundesliga Hackathon 2025

DFL, AWS and EintrachtTech

One of six winning teams among 42, with a cross-platform fan app and AI chat.

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The first Bundesliga Hackathon: 42 teams, 15 in the final at Deutsche Bank Park, Frankfurt. Our team “Hasso's Kickers” (three HPI students) is listed by the DFL as one of the winning teams.

DFL review of the hackathon The app

Everything else

More results

Each row opens for the details.

Competitions 3

Prize MINT-EC certificate Top level in all three categories. With distinction · Jun 2024 details

335 points for extracurricular STEM activities, against a threshold of 80.

MINT-EC, national network of STEM-focused schools
Prize Bundeswettbewerb Informatik First prize in round 1 in both years, qualifying for round 2 each time. First prize in round 1, twice · 2022/23 and 2023/24 details

Completed round 2 in 2022/23. Attended HPI's “Fit for BWInf” camp in January 2024, my first contact with the institute.

Germany's Federal Computer Science Competition
Win Computer Science Team Competition of Thuringia's STEM schools Team of three from the Albert-Schweitzer-Gymnasium Erfurt. First place · Nov 2023 details

Competition of Thuringia's specialized STEM schools, hosted by the Carl-Zeiss-Gymnasium Jena.

Carl-Zeiss-Gymnasium Jena · Jena

Pitch competitions 2

Prize E-Challenge, HPI Engine One-minute pitch among about 15 teams: “Ratard”, an extension against fake news. Best Pitch 2024 · Dec 2024 details

Ratard flags fake news, manipulation and bias right on the page. I built a first prototype the week after the pitch.

HPI Engine, course “Economic Foundations” · Potsdam

Best Pitch 2024, HPI Engine E-Challenge
Win JugendUnternimmt Summer School Built a business model in one workshop week and pitched it to a jury of founders. First place, pitch competition · Jul 2024 details

Business model canvas, cost model and market within the week. Taking part was itself a special prize from the Jugend forscht regional round.

JugendUnternimmt · Erfurt

Hackathons 2

Took part OpenAI Hackathon at IdeaLab! 2026 Built “Voya” in 48 hours as technical lead. Participant · Sep 2026 details

Team of three to four; 130 of the 142 commits are mine.

WHU · Vallendar

Voya
Took part START Hack 2026 600+ hackers, 36 hours: built “Thesinator” for the Studyond challenge. Participant · Mar 2026 details

Part of a group of twelve HPI students that Ignite brought to the hackathon.

START Global · St. Gallen

Thesinator

Sport 1

Prize German Karate Championships (DKV) German U14 vice-champion in kumite; bronze in the U21 team kumite (2023); 1st Dan. U14 vice-champion and U21 team bronze · until 2024 details

Shotokan karate since 2012 at Chikara-Club Erfurt. Further German Championship results: 5th place junior kumite −68 kg (2022), 7th place U21 (2023 and 2024). The 2024 championship was six days before my Abitur certificate.

Deutscher Karate Verband

Scholarships

Volunteering and scholarships

sdw Klaus Murmann Fellowship, Foundation of German Business

One of Germany's 13 federally funded talent foundations.

since Oct 2025
Sparkassenstiftung Erfurt scholarship, science category

For achievement and engagement; the funds went into PneuNet.

2024 – 2025