Dormant Wins Stellic Student App Challenge

Oct 14, 2026
University of Kansas student Nathan Wituk won Stellic's Pathfinders Challenge with Dormant, a campus event discovery app.

Stellic named Dormant the winner of its 2026 Pathfinders Challenge, the company said in a press release. University of Kansas student Nathan Wituk created the map based app to help students find campus events.

The competition received 169 submissions from students in the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Australia. Participants received free access to the Claude API from Anthropic and the app creation platform from Lovable.

The other finalists were Flightplan, a personalized career planning app with visa guidance for international students, and Vivifi, which converts course syllabuses into gradebooks and planning tools. Dormant received the $5,000 grand prize, while each runner up received $2,500.

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