✦ A Qiskit Fall Fest 2026 event in Sydney, Australia

Qiskit Fall Fest 2026 @ UTS

QuantumGame Jam

One day. Zero quantum experience required. Learn what a qubit is before lunch, ship a quantum game before dinner, and watch strangers play it after.

📅 Wed 7 Oct 2026 ⏰ 9:00 AM – 8:00 PM 📍 UTS (Room TBA) 🎟 Free for Quantum@UTS + ProgSoc members 🪑 Limited seats

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Hosted by Quantum@UTS × ProgSoc, the UTS Programmers' Society

What even is this

A quantum hackathon
that fits in one day.

Qiskit Fall Fest is a worldwide series of student-run quantum computing events supported by IBM Quantum. Ours is a game jam: a crash course in the morning, a build sprint in the afternoon, and a room full of people playing your game at night. If you can write a Python for loop, you are qualified. If you can't yet, we'll send you a short notebook so you can be.

01 · 9:15 AM
🧠

Learn

Qubits, superposition, entanglement, and the five lines of Qiskit that make them go. Delivered before your coffee wears off.

02 · 1:15 PM
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Build

Team up, pick a mechanic, and wire a real quantum circuit into a playable game. Bugs are features if they're probabilistic.

03 · 6:15 PM
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Play

Demo to the room, play everyone else's game, let the judges deliberate, collect prizes, go home slightly changed.

The jam

The brief

Make a game where quantum does something. Any language, any engine, any level of polish. Somewhere inside it, a Qiskit circuit has to matter.

You'll get the full rules at the 11:30 AM briefing. Until then, here are some perfectly legal seeds to steal:

Coin flip, but the coin is a Hadamard gate Tic-tac-toe where your move is in superposition Two-player dice, entangled across laptops A dungeon map that collapses when you look at it Rock, paper, scissors, Pauli-X Snake, but the apple is a probability cloud Blackjack against a noisy simulator

What the judges are looking for

FunDid people want a second go?
Quantum-nessIs the circuit doing real work, or decorating?
UnderstandingCan the team explain the quantum concept behind their game, not just run it?
The demoThree minutes. Make them count.

Prizes? Yes. Details closer to the event.

Schedule · Wednesday 7 October 2026

From "what's a qubit?"
to a working game.

☀️ Morning

Registration beginsDoors open. Grab a name tag. Say hi to someone.
Opening ceremonyShort. We promise.
Quantum Computing & Qiskit 101Zero to your first circuit on a real toolkit. No maths degree required.
Hackathon briefingThe theme, the rules, the submission form.
Team formationNo team? We'll match you. Solo is allowed too.

🌤️ Afternoon

LunchFuel up.
Hackathon beginsNearly five hours of building. Mentors floating around the whole time.

🌙 Evening

DinnerStep away from the keyboard.
Submissions closeHard deadline. Very classical.
Team demosShow the room what you made.
Play & judgingEveryone plays everything. The judges decide.
Awards & group photoSmile like you understood entanglement.
CloseGo home. Sleep. Dream in Bloch spheres.

Who can come

Members only.
Membership is easy.

This event is open to members of Quantum@UTS or ProgSoc. One is enough. Both is fine. Neither means you'll be waving at us from outside, so sort that out first.

Registration will open soon on Activate UTS. Seats are limited and go first come, first served, so join the Discord and we'll ping you the moment it's live.

Registration opens soon on Activate UTS ↗ Join our Discord ↗
📍 Venue: somewhere at UTS. The exact room is currently in a superposition of several buildings and will collapse to one closer to the date. Registered attendees get an email, and we'll announce it on Discord too.
Join Quantum@UTSThe UTS quantum computing society. Talks, workshops, and this.
Join ProgSocThe UTS Programmers' Society. Code, coffee, questionable variable names.

FAQ

Frequently asked,
honestly answered.

I know nothing about quantum computing. Is this really for me?

Yes, and specifically so. The morning session assumes zero background. If you know what a bit is, you're already ahead of the syllabus.

What is Qiskit?

Qiskit is IBM's open-source Python toolkit for writing quantum programs. If you can write basic Python, you can write a quantum circuit in about five lines.

If you can't write Python yet, or the words "linear algebra" make you nervous, we'll send registered attendees short notebooks covering the bare minimum of both before the event. Not a course, just enough to keep up. Bring questions.

Do I need a team?

No. Teams form at 12:00 PM on the day, and we'll match anyone who turns up without one.

Do I need to know maths or Python already?

No. Before the event we'll send out beginner notebooks on basic Python and the linear algebra basics behind qubits (vectors, matrices, and why a gate is just a matrix). Work through them at your own pace and you'll walk in ready for the 9:15 AM session.

What do I need to bring?

A laptop and a charger. That's the whole list. We'll supply the qubits (simulated, mostly).

I'm not a member of Quantum@UTS or ProgSoc. Can I come?

You can't, sorry. You have to be a member of either club. The good news: joining takes about two minutes on Activate UTS, and then you can.

What does it cost?

It's free.

Will there be prizes?

Yes. Details closer to the event. Set your expectations somewhere between "a sticker" and "a quantum computer".

Where exactly at UTS?

We'll confirm the room closer to the date. Registered attendees will get an email with the building, level and how to find the door, and we'll post the same on our Discord.

Still not sure?

Ask us anything, however basic. Hop into our Discord and one of the organisers will get back to you.

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