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# Themes

Both tracks look for projects in two themes. A project can lean on both.

| Theme | In our words | Examples the event page gives |
|---|---|---|
| **Build for Your World** | Take Meta's models into a domain you know firsthand. Solve a real problem there, save people time and attention, or make something newly possible. | Your own field or community |
| **Push the Frontier** | Use the models on hard problems where they meet the real world: give a machine a new capability, speed up an experiment, or understand and control a physical system better. | Software, robotics, manufacturing, energy, materials |

## How themes connect to judging

- The **Impact** criterion (30%) asks whether the project "fits one of the problem statements". No separate list is
  published, so the two themes are the frame to fit (checked 2026-10-29); see
  [05-problem-statements.md](05-problem-statements.md).
- Applications were scored partly on how well the idea fit a theme. Submissions are scored on the four criteria in
  [08-judging.md](08-judging.md).

Source: event page "Project Themes" and Official Rules (judging), checked 2026-10-26.