Rules and code of conduct

Everyone who takes part, in person or online, agrees to both when they apply.

Who can enter

1. Participation is by accepted application only.
2. Participants must be 18 years of age or older.
3. Applicants must be currently enrolled university students, graduates within two years of their graduation date, or founders of an early-stage company.
4. Accepted participants must confirm in-person or online attendance in advance. In-person capacity is limited to 40.

Rules

1. Teams have up to three members, and must register with the organizers before hacking begins at 11:30 on Saturday. You can work alone, and teams can mix people in the room and online.
2. All project work must begin after hacking starts. Planning and sketching ideas beforehand is fine; writing the code is not.
3. Open-source libraries and public APIs are permitted. Say in your project summary what you used.
4. The submission form opens at 09:00 on Sunday. Each team submits a repository link, a demo video of two minutes or less, and a project summary before hacking ends at 11:30. Late submissions won't be accepted.
5. You own what you build. Sponsors and organizers may share your project name, team and demo when announcing results.
6. Each team can win one prize at most, apart from sponsor tracks that say otherwise. Judges' decisions are final.
7. Organizers can disqualify a team that breaks these rules or the code of conduct.

Judging

1. Technical execution: quality and complexity of the implementation.
2. Completeness: functionality delivered within the 24-hour period.
3. Impact: relevance of the problem and potential for real-world use.
4. Presentation: clarity of the demo video and project summary.

Projects are judged after the event from submitted materials, and teams in the room and online are judged the same way. Winners are announced at 15:30 on Sunday, four hours after hacking ends.

Code of conduct

We want this to be an event where anyone can do their best work.

• Treat everyone with respect: other hackers, mentors, judges, sponsors, volunteers and venue staff, in the room and online.
• Harassment isn't tolerated in any form. That includes offensive comments about gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, appearance, body size, race, ethnicity, age, religion or nationality, as well as intimidation, stalking, unwanted photography or contact, and disrupting talks or demos.
• Keep sexual language and imagery out of the event, including in projects, slides, team names and Discord.
• Don't build or demo anything designed to harm people, collect their data without consent, or break the law.
• Respect the venue: follow its rules, and leave your space as you found it.
• We take photos and video at the event. If you'd rather not appear in them, tell a volunteer at check-in.

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