Team up. Build with AI. Create.
Welcome to Ecolint Vibes 2026 — a student competition where teams use AI to build exciting apps and webpages inspired by what they learn at school. Open to LGB campus, Middle and Secondary School students only.
LEVEL / MS & SS
So what is
vibe coding?
It's the reason this competition has the name it does — so it's worth slowing down for a moment. "Vibe coding" is a new way of making apps and websites where you describe what you want in plain words, and AI handles the actual code. Less typing semicolons, more shaping ideas.
And the word vibe is doing double duty here — which brings us to the wordplay in the name.
A competition that runs on vibe coding — but also leans into the vibe of it: the energy of a team, the flow of a good brainstorm, the feeling when something finally clicks. Hence the name.
So how does it actually work?
Three moves. You explain, AI builds, your team polishes. That's the loop.
Explain your idea
in simple words.
No jargon, no frameworks, no Stack Overflow rabbit holes. You describe what you want to make, in the way that feels most natural to you — and the AI listens.
Use AI tools
to help build it.
Prompt, preview, tweak, repeat. The AI writes the code while you stay in the driver's seat on direction, design choices, and what "good" actually means for your project.
Focus on creativity
and teamwork.
Designers refine it. Writers polish it. Testers break it. Everyone contributes something — not just the one person who happens to "know code."
Welcome to Ecolint Vibes 2026.
Ecolint Vibes 2026 is the school's first vibe coding competition — open to all Middle School and Secondary School students on the LGB campus. This is your chance to build something real, not just talk about ideas.
Your mission: team up with classmates, build an app or webpage using vibe coding, and base it on something you learn at school. But don't just make it — make it interesting, fun, or genuinely useful. Here are a few directions to get your brain moving:
A topic from maths, science, languages, history, art — whatever you're learning. The best projects take something from the timetable and turn it into something people genuinely want to use.
Quick-fire rounds, shops with discounts, test-score conversions — percentages actually clicking.
Dial up wind speed and humidity, watch a funnel form. See how category ratings actually work.
Follow a sandwich from bite to bloodstream. Click each organ to see what it actually does.
Slide the years, the rate, the starting amount. Watch the curve explode — why time beats timing.
Flashcards that adapt to which elements you keep getting wrong. Spaced repetition that actually works.
Pick a tense, pick a verb, go. Streaks, timers, and a kinder way to survive passé composé.
Drag through the years, jump between theatres, see how events connect. History unsqueezed from the textbook.
Paste in any passage, get a modern translation with themes, motifs, and the context behind the lines.
Scroll from the Sun to Neptune at actual proportional distance. Prepare to scroll a while.
Stack any two countries side-by-side: population, GDP, climate, languages. Surprising patterns everywhere.
None of these grabbing you? Invent your own. The best submissions almost always do.
Four moves. That's it.
No complicated process, no mountain of paperwork. Just a simple shape for turning an idea into a finished project — with room for your team to make it your own.
You can use tools like Lovable, Ripple, Claude Code — or honestly, any AI tool you like. Pick what works for your team and the kind of project you're making.
We're not looking for something that works. We're looking for something memorable.
Anyone can ship a page that technically functions. Far fewer ship something that makes a judge stop scrolling, show their colleague, and remember the name of the team who built it. That's the bar.
Make something that makes judges stop scrolling.
That's the real test. A project that works is expected. A project that sticks in someone's mind a week later is what wins.
The prizes are big — and definitely worth it.
We're keeping the full list under wraps for now, but trust us: they're the kind of thing you'll want to tell people about.
Here's when.
Three stages. Right now is for getting ready. June brings the full information drop — judging criteria, prize breakdown, everything you need to know. Then you've got the whole summer and autumn to actually build — submissions close in October.
Start the groundwork.
You don't have to wait for the starting gun. The teams that show up with a clear idea and working chemistry will be miles ahead of everyone still trying to figure out who's doing what.
- Find your team
- Start sharing ideas
- Try out vibe coding tools
The full reveal.
Everything goes public: the detailed judging criteria, the prize breakdown, submission guidelines, and any official competition information you need. Stay close to school comms.
- Full judging criteria published
- Prize details announced
- Submission guidelines shared
Submissions close.
You've had four months to build, test, and polish. Now it's time to ship. Submit your project before the deadline — judging happens after, and winners are announced once the dust settles.
- Final projects submitted
- Judging begins
- Winners announced
Three reasons. Pick whichever lands.
Find your team.
Start brainstorming.
Follow the vibe.
Ecolint Vibes 2026 is coming — the school's biggest creative-build challenge yet. June brings the full reveal. October is when you ship. That's four months to turn something in your head into something on screen. Start now, start small, but start.
