Project submission deadline is on Sunday, June 18th 2023 at 12:30 pm EDT
Project submission is done on your Hacker Dashboard
You apply for partner prizes on the last step of the project submission form
All project submissions must include a demo video between 2 and 4 minutes that explains your project
Instead of doing the demo live during judging, we will show your video
Submitting your project does not automatically qualify you for Finalist Judging on Monday, June 19th 2023 at 12:00 pm EDT
All projects looking to attend Finalist Judging will first be reviewed by the judges asynchronously in round 1, and only projects that meet the requirements for Finalist Judging will proceed to round 2 and be allowed to present their project live to the panel of judges
Qualifications for round 1 include:
If you project makes it through the screening, we will email you with the details about presenting to the judges. Your Hacker Dashboard will also reflect the next steps.
ALL Partner judging will take place async - no action required here
π¨Β Note: You should not be working on your projects before the event officially begins. This includes coding, designing assets etc. Each hack submission will be judged solely on the quality of the work completed during the duration of the hackathon. We require everyone starts building from scratch - if there is a situation where a project / team are porting or continuing existing projects then the result is that you may continue to participate but you won't be eligible for Partner prizes or being a Finalist.
π¨Β Note: In order to ensure that no pre-existing work makes its way into the submission, you must also use version control for your code throughout the course of the event. Any repositories with single commits of large files without proper history will be default assumed to be unqualified unless proven otherwise
You have two options when submitting your project on the hacker dashboard:
All projects looking to attend Finalist Judging will first be reviewed by the judges asynchronously in round 1
Only projects that meet the requirements for Finalist Judging will proceed to round 2 and be allowed to present their project live to the panel of judges
You are still eligible for partner prizes if you select this option
If you project makes it through the round 1 screening, we will email you with the details about presenting to the judges. Your Hacker Dashboard will also reflect the next steps.
Partner judging will take place async - the only thing you are required to do here is to select the partner prizes you are applying for in your submission form
Each project will be ranked by our judges on the following 5 categories:
Technicality - What is the complexity of problem being addressed, or their approach to solving it?
Originality - Is the project tackling a new or unsolved problem, or creating unique/creative solution to an existing problem?
Practicality - How complete/functional is the project? Is it ready to be used by their intended audience?
Usability (UI/UX/DX) - Is the project easy to use? Has the team made good effort in removing friction for the user?
WOW factor - Catch-all for other factors the previous categories may have missed
To record the video you can use tools like Loom, Zoom screen-share, or QuickTime Player on Mac
We see a lot of these mistakes during submissions which requires a team to re-submit their video in order to qualify for judging. Please be mindful of these common patterns if you'd like to be considered for prizes. If we see 1 or more of these items on your submission you will be asked to re-submit the video.
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