Hackathon Guidelines

The rules of the competition

-Teams must have a minimum of 4 members, but no more than 7 members. There is a limited number of prizes for each award. So if you form a large team and win a challenge, there might not be enough prizes for everyone on your team.

-Teams should be made up exclusively of registered participants who are not organizers, volunteers, judges, sponsors, or in any other privileged position at the event.

-All team members should be present at the event. Leaving the venue for some time to hack elsewhere is fine.

-Teams can, of course, gain advice and support from organizers, volunteers, sponsors, and others.
All work on a project should be done at the hackathon.

-Teams can use an idea they had before the event.

-Teams can work on ideas that have already been done. Hacks do not have to be “innovative”. If a team wants to work on a common idea this is allowed and will only be judged on the quality of the hack.

-Teams can work on an idea that they have worked on before. Participants must clearly define what previously developed and newly created.

-Adding new features to existing projects is allowed. Judges will only consider new functionality introduced or new features added during the hackathon in determining the winners.

-Teams can use libraries, frameworks, or open-source code in their projects. Working on a project before the event and open-sourcing it for the sole purpose of using the code during the event is against the spirit of the rules and is not allowed.

-Teams must stop hacking once the time is up. However, teams are allowed to debug and make small fixes to their programs after time is up. e.g. If during demoing your hack you find a bug that breaks your application and the fix is only a few lines of code, it's okay to fix that. Making large changes or adding new features is not allowed.

-Teams must register on Saturday, October 27 by 6:00 pm through the provided Google Form.

-Projects that violate the Code of Conduct are not allowed.

-Teams can be disqualified from the competition at the organizers' discretion. Reasons might include but are not limited to breaking the Competition Rules, breaking the Code of Conduct, or other unsporting behaviors.