Date

5/17/2025

Eligibility

- Above the Legal age of majority in country of residence

- Current University Undergraduates

- Team Optional: up to 4 members

- US Only

Gen AI/Use of AI Disclosure

Dos:

  • Help you brainstorm
  • Solve Specific Issues
    • Debugging
    • Explaining errors you don’t understand
  • Use it like stack overflow
    • Treat GenAI like a thought buddy
  • Help you understand how people implement thing

Donts:

  • Writing Large amounts of code
    • Ex: make me a template for X
    • Once again use it with a specific purpose to help you debug issues but it should NEVER be told to write code
  • Using generators such as v0.dev

Judging Criteria and Winner Selection

  • Technology
    How technically impressive was the hack? Was the technical problem that was tackled difficult? Did it use a particularly clever technique or did it use many different components? Is it a scalable design/solution?
  • Polish
    Did the team put thought into the user experience? For a website, this might be about how beautiful the CSS or graphics are. For a hardware project, it might be about how good the human-computer interaction is.
  • Innovativeness
    Does the hack show the team thought “outside of the box”? Does it have a certain “wow factor” to it? Is it different compared to previous solutions?
  • Use of Intel Tech
  • Did the project use Intel technologies in their project? Did you sit down and really learn the technologies available to you?
  • Project Completeness
    Is there a demo of the product’s functionality? Can major user action flows be completed without significant obstacles? Could the project be productized and sold? Is there a business plan that explains who woud consume this product, and how it would benefit them?
  • Version Control Best Practices
  • Does the git repo show consistent and clean commits? Was code committed outside permitted hacking time? Does the project follow the rules regarding Gen AI?