[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":198},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-post-hackathon-2026\u002Fdartmouth":3,"sibling-dives-hackathon-2026\u002Fdartmouth":195,"learn-track-hackathon-2026\u002Fdartmouth":196,"learn-prereq-hackathon-2026\u002Fdartmouth":197},{"id":4,"title":5,"authors":6,"body":8,"breadcrumb":168,"builders":172,"byline":173,"category":173,"categoryName":173,"challenge":173,"courseAuthor":173,"courseLead":173,"dek":174,"description":175,"draft":176,"extension":177,"eyebrow":173,"featured":176,"finish":173,"fork":173,"group":173,"groupName":173,"hero":173,"heroAlt":173,"heroCta":173,"heroImage":173,"homepageFeatured":176,"kind":173,"lessonCount":173,"meta":178,"navigation":179,"newsItems":173,"next":173,"node":180,"ogImage":183,"order":173,"outcomes":173,"path":184,"prerequisite":173,"prerequisiteLinks":173,"publishDate":185,"readingTime":173,"related":186,"relatedProjects":173,"section":173,"seo":187,"share":179,"spotlight":176,"stem":189,"tags":190,"track":173,"trackName":173,"updates":173,"__hash__":194},"blog\u002Fblog\u002Fhackathon-2026\u002Fdartmouth.md","Dartmouth College winners: Qollab x IonQ Hackathon 2026",[7],"qollab",{"type":9,"value":10,"toc":160},"minimark",[11,15,21,24,29,32,41,44,48,56,62,65,68,71,74,77,80,83,91,100,104,107,110,140,144,152],[12,13,14],"p",{},"At the Dartmouth College node of the Qollab x IonQ Hackathon 2026, 18 teams signed up, 7 of them solo. Of the 18, 14 were on the student track and 4 on the professional track. The online build weekend ran from 7 PM ET on October 9 to 7 PM ET on October 11. In that time, 4 of the 18 teams entered 5 projects.",[16,17],"youtube-video",{"poster":18,"title":19,"yt":20},"\u002F_content\u002Fimages\u002Fhackathon-2026\u002Fdartmouth\u002Freel-poster.webp","Dartmouth College at the Qollab x IonQ Hackathon 2026","kWrN4tHlqhY",[12,22,23],{},"The projects range from satellite scheduling and drug screening to a quantum receiver benchmark and a playground for emerging quantum platforms. Every one of them is open source on Qollab.",[25,26,28],"h2",{"id":27},"the-dartmouth-college-node","The Dartmouth College node",[12,30,31],{},"Dartmouth College, in Hanover, New Hampshire, signed on in late September. Aryan Bawa led the node with Kendall Yoon. On the last afternoon of the build weekend, Aryan invited builders to an end-of-hackathon session on campus, with pizza.",[12,33,34,35,40],{},"The physics department's ",[36,37,39],"a",{"href":38},"https:\u002F\u002Fphysics.dartmouth.edu\u002Fresearch\u002Fquantum-and-condensed-matter-physics","Quantum and Condensed Matter Group"," works on quantum information processing, quantum statistical mechanics and condensed matter physics.",[12,42,43],{},"The projects were scored on novelty, technical execution, impact and documentation. The node's judging panel was Prof. James Whitfield, Prof. Siddhartha Jayanti and Andrew Projansky.",[25,45,47],{"id":46},"node-winner-fairpass","Node winner: FairPass",[12,49,50,51,55],{},"FairPass coordinates satellite ground stations. Its data comes from ",[36,52,54],{"href":53},"https:\u002F\u002Fsatnogs.org\u002F","SatNOGS",", an open-source global network of ground stations, where each station picks which satellite to listen to. FairPass decides which satellite talks to which antenna, to get the most data down while cutting the number of satellites left without a turn.",[57,58],"blog-figure",{"alt":59,"caption":60,"src":61},"Team Superpositioned, with a screenshot of FairPass: fairness-aware contact scheduling for open ground-station networks","Team Superpositioned","\u002F_content\u002Fimages\u002Fhackathon-2026\u002Fdartmouth\u002Ffairpass-winner.webp",[12,63,64],{},"Team Superpositioned entered FairPass. Sezer Aptourachman, the team lead, is a third-year informatics and telematics student at Harokopio University of Athens. Hirmay Bharatkumar Sandesara is a master's student in computational science and engineering at the Technical University of Munich. Nicholas Gould is a senior at the University of Lynchburg. Ramachandran Sekanipuram Srikanthan is a hardware engineer. Sezer and Nicholas were teammates at MIT's iQuHACK 2025, and Hirmay joined after Sezer found him on the iQuHACK 2026 Discord server.",[12,66,67],{},"Before the hackathon, the team had QAOA, a quantum optimisation algorithm, in mind and looked for a real-world problem to apply it to. Sezer suggested satellite scheduling, after watching The Martian and following news from space organisations.",[12,69,70],{},"Late on the first day, the team's own checks showed that their headline result was partly wrong. A few satellites with huge listed data rates were dominating every schedule. The team capped the data rate, fixed how overlapping receptions were scored and reran the whole pipeline overnight. Some results got smaller, and they reported the corrected numbers. By the team's numbers, coordinating the stations delivers about 44% more data, and a fairness term cuts missions with no contact from 49 to 12.",[12,72,73],{},"On the team's test day, the model predicted 167 successful satellite observations, and 165 took place. The team also compared QAOA with classical baselines, and at this problem size simulated annealing and a greedy method matched it.",[12,75,76],{},"Sezer's next step would be to run the recommended plan on SatNOGS for a day and compare it with what actually gets downloaded. After that come larger scheduling windows, where classical search stops being trivial.",[12,78,79],{},"Sezer suggests running the demo from Qollab on IonQ's Forte 1 noise-model simulator and reading the output section by section. \"Reading it always makes me feel like an operator in a ground station deciding where to point the dishes.\"",[12,81,82],{},"Team Superpositioned also entered Q-Link Screen.",[84,85,88],"pull-quote",{"avatar":86,"name":60,"role":87},"\u002F_content\u002Fimages\u002Fhackathon-2026\u002Fdartmouth\u002Ffairpass-avatar.webp","FairPass",[12,89,90],{},"Space is no longer only for big agencies. Students and small teams around the world now build satellites, but they rely on volunteer ground stations to hear from them, and a satellite nobody listens to is a lost mission.",[92,93],"project-card",{"builder":94,"description":95,"owner":96,"thumb":97,"title":98,"to":99},"Sezer Aptourachman, Hirmay Bharatkumar Sandesara, Nicholas Gould, Ramachandran Sekanipuram Srikanthan","A scheduler for satellite-to-ground-station communication, using both QAOA and a classical greedy algorithm.","julsezar","\u002F_content\u002Fimages\u002Fhackathon-2026\u002Fdartmouth\u002Ffairpass.webp","FairPass: fairness-aware contact scheduling for open ground-station networks","\u002Fu\u002Fjulsezar\u002Ffairpass",[25,101,103],{"id":102},"every-other-project-from-dartmouth-college","Every other project from Dartmouth College",[12,105,106],{},"Two of the other projects are about quantum hardware: FringeScope JointReadout and QubitForge.",[12,108,109],{},"The other 4 projects entered at the node, A to Z.",[111,112,113,121,127,134],"ul",{},[114,115,116,120],"li",{},[36,117,119],{"href":118},"\u002Fu\u002FBenHelf\u002Ffringescope-when-quantum-sensi","FringeScope JointReadout",": A measured-output quantum receiver benchmark with fresh IBM hardware tomography and held-out tests.",[114,122,123],{},[36,124,126],{"href":125},"\u002Fu\u002Fhelinwang1203\u002Fhackathon-project","Hackathon Project",[114,128,129,133],{},[36,130,132],{"href":131},"\u002Fu\u002Fjulsezar\u002Fq-linkscreen","Q-Link Screen",": Does a messenger qubit pick a better drug-screening shortlist?",[114,135,136],{},[36,137,139],{"href":138},"\u002Fu\u002Fhrahman\u002Fqubitforge","QubitForge",[25,141,143],{"id":142},"dartmouth-college-on-qollab","Dartmouth College on Qollab",[12,145,146,147,151],{},"Specialty awards follow on Wed Oct 28 and global winners on Thu Oct 29, and the ",[36,148,150],{"href":149},"\u002Fexplore\u002Fhackathon-2026","Hackathon 2026 results page"," links to every node's post.",[12,153,154,155,159],{},"Open any project on Dartmouth College's ",[36,156,158],{"href":157},"https:\u002F\u002Fqollab.xyz\u002Fnodes\u002Fdartmouth-qc","node page on Qollab"," to read its code, run it and fork it. 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