# Source: Weber State AI Hackathon official website

**Type:** source
**Status:** Stub
**Confidence:** Low
**Source Type:** official-page
**URL:** https://hackathon.weber.edu/
**Publisher:** Weber State University
**Retrieved:** 2026-08-12
**Raw:** raw/weber-state-ai-hackathon-official-website/2026-08-12-13e4ea401f4a.txt
**Updated:** 2026-08-11

## Summary

The official site for the Weber State AI Hackathon. It is included **as evidence of its own
emptiness**: at capture the whole site amounted to a few hundred characters across three pages, and it
had already been rolled forward to advertise a **March 20, 2027** event.

It is cited for two facts only — that the hackathon is a real Weber State University property on a
`weber.edu` subdomain, and that a 2027 edition is announced — and as the demonstration that the prior
year's edition is unrecoverable from the official record.

## Useful Claims

- The hackathon is hosted on **`hackathon.weber.edu`**, a Weber State University subdomain, which
  establishes it as an institutional event rather than a personal project.
- A **2027 edition is announced for March 20, 2027**.
- The site's own navigation is limited to Home, About, and Contact, and at capture the About and
  Contact pages carried **no content beyond a restatement of the site's meta description**.

## Verbatim

> Weber State AI Hackathon 2027
> — Home page, title and heading

> Register for the official Weber State AI Hackathon 2027, your gateway to event details and a countdown for the exciting March 20th, 2027 competition.
> — Home page, meta description, repeated as body text

> About — About on Weber State AI Hackathon 2027. Register for the official Weber State AI Hackathon 2027, your gateway to event d.
> — Pages listing, About entry

## Reliability Notes

Self-reported tier, and **thin to the point of being an artifact rather than a document**. The About
page's text is a truncated repetition of the site's own meta description — the signature of a
template that was never filled in.

The important limitation is what the page **destroys** rather than what it asserts. This URL is the
canonical, official, institutional source for the event, and it now describes only 2027. Every
concrete detail of the April 2026 edition — the two-week remote build, the Shepherd Union finale, the
$10 ticket, the $1,800 prize pool, the job fair — is absent, and no archived prior state has been
resolved for it. A reader arriving here in good faith would not learn that a 2026 hackathon happened.

That makes this page's main evidentiary role **negative**: it is what a durable first-party source
looks like when it overwrites itself, and it is the reason the 2026 record rests on
[the organizer's Slack announcements](weber-state-ai-hackathon-2026-announcements.md), which are
ephemeral but far more complete.

The March 20, 2027 date should be treated as **advertised, not confirmed** — it is a countdown on a
page with no other content, published roughly seven months ahead.

## Related Pages

- [Weber State AI Hackathon](weber-state-ai-hackathon.md)
- [Source: Weber State AI Hackathon 2026 announcements (Forge Utah Slack)](weber-state-ai-hackathon-2026-announcements.md)