Hackathon
Submission portal live
Tracks, rules, and review criteria are published. Teams can now apply through the formal intake route.
Programs
Programs built to produce public evidence, not just participation.
NEST does not operate as a stack of disconnected activities. It runs a small number of serious programs with distinct structures, timelines, and outputs. Each one is designed to create visible work that can be built, tested, published, reviewed, or continued.
Program Index
A small number of serious divisions.
NEST runs fewer programs on purpose. Each one is meant to hold more structure, sharper standards, and more visible output than a generic activity list.
Hackathon
A concentrated build environment with application review, tracks, and final critique.
The hackathon is structured as a temporary studio rather than an open-ended event. Teams apply with a direction, build under time pressure, and present work against a standard of clarity, rigor, and execution.
Open callApplications close Apr 18
Baekho Racing
A flagship vehicle engineering program with real technical ownership.
Baekho Racing is organized around machine performance, subsystem logic, documentation, and iteration. It is treated as a serious engineering program rather than a display object.
In buildSubsystem planning active
District Zero
A civic build program for public-facing interventions shaped by real sites and constraints.
District Zero places student teams in contact with spaces, stakeholders, and implementation realities so the work has to survive beyond concept-level design.
Program formationSite and partner outreach
Live Status
The program layer should read as active now.
These are the current operating states across the NEST program stack.
Baekho Racing
Subsystem planning phase
Powertrain, controls, sourcing, and documentation are moving through current-cycle build logic.
District Zero
Partner outreach underway
The civic build program is forming around real sites, outside constraints, and implementation partners.
Publications
Issue 01 in formation
The research journal is assembling founding pieces, editorial criteria, and contributor pathways.
Operating Notes
What is active now.
The institution should be legible through current states, not only by description.
01
Hackathon applications are the primary live intake route.
02
Baekho is in subsystem planning, sourcing, and test logic definition.
03
District Zero is moving through partner outreach and program framing.
04
Publication standards are being set before broader contributor intake.