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AITEX Summit: Spring 2026 (jury): an award for O-1 and EB-1A

Award

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HackathonTier 3aitexsummit.com

From the organisation's official site

What the organisation itself states on its site aitexsummit.com. Paraphrased, checked Oct 2, 2026.

Organiser
Run by the AITEX association; the site is part of its initiative.
Frequency
Spring 2026 is an international online hackathon in the AITEX Summit series; the site says it has concluded.
How winners are chosen
Participants build AI projects, get expert feedback, present their ideas and compete for prizes.
Jury
Judges receive awards in four groups (evaluation, mentorship, communication, innovation); the awards page lists 19 judge awards.
How jurors are chosen
Judges apply through a form (name, work email, company, LinkedIn, Telegram, position, experience); no fee for judges is stated. Judges evaluate team AI projects and give feedback.
Categories
Four tracks: Open Innovation, AI for Good, AI for Business, Intelligent Systems.
  • The full judge list is not shown as text: the page shows a few featured judges and a search over the panel.

Source: the organisation's site aitexsummit.com (pages /spring2026, /spring2026/judges), checked Oct 2, 2026; the version on the site applies.

What officers look at: 8 CFR 204.5(h)(3)(iv) - whose work was judged and how it is documented

AITEX Summit: Spring 2026 (jury) counts under the awards criterion if it is given for merit in your field, not for participation: the officer looks at selectivity and the awarding body.

The "Awards" criterion: what USCIS requires and how to meet itOpen the full catalog

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Reference information, not legal advice and not a USCIS decision: the final assessment is the officer's.

Why "Awards" gets refused

Accepted in 14% of challenged petitions (25 of 184); not an approval rate.

The award itself is not shown to enjoy national or international recognition. Officers assess the prize itself, not merely the fact that you won it.

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