Dates

April 22nd to 23rd, 2023, 9AM - 7PM each day (No overnight stay in the building)

Eligibility

You must be enrolled and have active student status in an accredited middle school or high school. We do NOT accept college/university students.

Project and Submission Requirements

Your project may:

  • Build on open source code
  • Use code snippets available on the internet

Your project may NOT:

  • Be written by AI code generation, in any way or form.
  • Plagiarize other projects online (There's a line and copy pasting too much definitely crosses it)

When you submit your project, you certify the following:

  • You did not collaborate on your project with other groups
  • You did not plagiarize other projects' code
  • You did not use AI code generation to write any part of your project
  • You are eligible to participate in the competition based on our eligibility rules

You will submit your project code and a writeup and schedule a time to demo your project in front of judges.

Judging Criteria and Winner Selection

We will judge projects out of 20 in the three following categories:

  • Function
    • How well does the product actually function? Is it just a mockup, half-functional, or mostly/fully functional?
    • Is what the product does actually useful?
  • Polish
    • How polished/refined is your product?
    • How good does it look?
    • How smoothly does it run?
  • Presentation
    • Confidence during presentation
    • Content of presentation
    • Structure

Rules/Code of Conduct

Our hackathon's code of conduct is at the following link: Code of Conduct