General Rules

• Be kind and respectful. All hackers must abide by MLH's Code of Conduct.

• Any projects submitted must be started and completed during the duration of Rice Datathon.

• 4 hackers maximum per team (anything less including 1 is okay but we encourage finding a full team as you can get a lot more done with 4 people!)

• Only submit to Rice Datathon — projects that submit to other hackathons will be disqualified.

• All code must be uploaded BEFORE the deadline and linked to Rice Datathon — project demos with a working product yet have no code uploaded will be disqualified. The recommend way to upload code is to a PUBLIC Github repository. THIS MUST BE INCLUDED.

• Public frameworks and libraries are allowed, but submitting mostly copied code will result in project disqualification. We run of the 80-20 rule, where AT LEAST 80% of the code must be yours written during this datathon, and AT MOST 20% of your code can be code not written during the datathon.

• Taking code from any open source repository must be attributed.

• Teams and hackers can submit multiple projects, each to 1 track. However, you are not allowed to make multiple submissions to the same track.

• Everyone is entered into the overall track. All opt in prizes/challenges must be submitted in the opt in section before the judging deadline. After this deadline, there are no guarantees we can accommodate last minute changes.

• Anything presented at judging should only be worked on from 8:00pm on Friday to 8:30 AM on Sunday. There should be no coding or building before 8:00pm on Friday, however you can ideate beforehand with your team!

• Organizers are allowed to adjust rules for a better experience.