Georgia Tech students will compete for $6000 in cash and prizes this February at a competition to create new musical instruments. An eight-hour Hackathon will be held on campus on Sunday, Feb. 15, during which competition teams will design their instruments. Winners will share in a $3000 cash prize and $3000 in prizes offered by competition sponsor Moog.

In addition, as part of the Student Design Challenge, all the competition teams will showcase their novel musical instruments at a special event during the 2015 Margaret Guthman Musical Instrument Competition on Friday, Feb. 20, before celebrity judges Joe Paradiso, Graham Marsh, and DJ Hurricane. Georgia Tech’s Guthman Musical Instrument Competition is an annual event to find the world’s best new ideas in musicality, design and engineering. Wired magazine has called the competition an “X-Prize for music” and it draws competitors from across the globe.

The Student Design Challenge is sponsored by Moog, the Georgia Tech School of Music, Center for Music Technology, College of Architecture, Office of the Arts, and the Georgia Tech Invention Studio.

Information and registration is available here. The registration deadline is January 9, 2015.