Eligibility

Must be 18 or older to attend.

Rules

  • Teams can be 1-4 people
  • You may not crosspost to other hackathons
  • You may not submit multiple projects
  • You may submit to multiple challenges
  • You may not work on your project before the event. You must stop development when submissions are due
    • This means that you should not be reusing code from previous projects. 
  • You must submit your code in your Devpost submission as a publicly available link(GitHub link, repl.it, Google Drive link, etc). You should remove any API keys before sharing. 
  • You may use publicly available frameworks, but you need to list said frameworks in a readme.
  • You may use LLM/ChatGPT/AI, but must state how you did so in your Devpost submission. 
  • Judging will be in person.
  • This event is limited to students and recent graduates. No volunteers, organizers, or mentors are eligible to win any prizes, though they can work on projects for their portfolio if they wish. 
  • Please refer to the MLH Code of Conduct here

Project and Submission Requirements

Submissions must include a link to the repository of your project, preferably on GitHub. List the challenges and tracks your project fulfills in the description. You can have multiple tracks and challenges listed in your project, given your project fulfils the requirements of multiple tracks.

Judging Criteria and Winner Selection

We will have an overall 1st, 2nd, and 3rd winner, and hackers can choose to compete in additional tracks and challenges. Judging is science-fair style, and you will have 2 minutes to present + demo your project to 4 judges, then 1 minute to answer questions from judges. Tracks will have 1-6 judges.