UAEMéx students win first and second place at LiverHack 2026

Two teams from the Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México (UAEMéx) secured first and second place at LiverHack 2026. The hackathon, held at the Liverpool Corporate offices in Santa Fe, Mexico City, focused on technological innovation and problem-solving.

The competition featured 12 teams of four students each, representing six different educational institutions and training programs. Participants included students from computer systems engineering, informatics, data science, and related fields from the sixth semester onward.

The winning first-place team, Potrodevs, consisted of Raúl Treviño Licona, Michelle Alejandra Cárdenas Reyes, Lizbeth Ocampo Blanco, and Osvaldo Estrada Lara. The second-place team, Cuacows, included Armando Balam Carranza Ortíz, Carlos González Laines, Leonardo Ballesteros López, and Jorge Darien Cabrera Bastidas.

UAEMéx teams from the Tianguistenco and Atlacomulco university centers outperformed representatives from the Instituto Politécnico Nacional (IPN), the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Tecnológico de Monterrey, Generation México, and TripleTen.