Hacking starts after our opening ceremony on 25th of August 2021 (Wednesday)
Project submission deadline is 10.30am the next day, 26th of August (Thursday)
Group presentation and judging will start at 11am on 26th of August (Thursday)
Closing ceremony will start at 4pm 26th of August (Thursday)
Teams will be assigned by the organisers, can be a minimum size of 3 and maximum size of 5 individuals.
Mentors will be available during the allocated sessions to provide advice and feedback to the participants. Each session is limited to 30 minutes and mentors will not be allowed to help with writing code.
Teams can use an idea they had before the event but all work on the project should be done at the hackathon. Only members of a team can work on that team’s project.
Teams can work on ideas that have already been done (no reusing code). Hacks do not have to be “innovative”. If somebody wants to work on a common idea they should be allowed to do so and should be judged on the quality of their hack. These days it’s hard to find something that’s fully original and teams might not know an idea has been done before anyway.
Teams can use libraries, frameworks, or open-source code in their projects. Working on a project before the event and open sourcing it for the sole purpose of using the code during the event is against the spirit of the rules and is not allowed.
Code must be published on GitHub to allow organisers and judges to ensure that the team stop hacking once the time is up.
Project must also be submitted via Devpost where teams will have to include:-
Git repository link
Short passage about describing the project, inspiration, how was it built, challenges faced, lessons learnt and future improvements
All submitted projects shall adhere to the theme announced by the organisers during the opening ceremony. By submitting a project, you grant YME permission to display, copy, combine, compile, distribute, and disseminate your project to support YME’s hackathon event. All projects will be posted at YME's sole discretion.
Project submissions will not be accepted if they include:
Threatening, slanderous, or obscene language;
Personal attacks;
Discriminatory language (including hate speech) based on race, national origin, age, gender, sexual orientation, religion, or disability;
Sexually explicit material or other material that would violate the law;
Material that promotes commercial services or products;
Proprietary or business sensitive information that you do not have the right to make public;
Solutions submitted for which you do not hold the copyright or other intellectual property rights; or
Personally identifiable information (e.g. birthdays, social security numbers, home addresses, home phone numbers).
A brief judging criteria will be released to participants before the competition for reference.
The judging process will be split into 2 rounds:
Preliminary round:-
Judges and mentors will be split into juries of two (hereinafter, jury).
Each jury will be tasked to judge about 5-8 teams of participants (hereinafter, team) that the mentors did not involve in participating.
Each team will have 3 minutes to present their project and 2 minutes reserved for a Q&A session.
Each jury will choose the top teams to enter the final round.
Final round:-
The 3 judges will serve as the members of the judging panel in the final round.
Each team will then have 5 minutes to present their project and 3 minutes reserved for a Q&A session.
3 teams will be chosen as the champion, first runner-up, and second runner-up of the hackathon, respectively.
Teams can be disqualified from the competition at the organisers' discretion. Reasons might include but are not limited to breaking these Competition Rules, breaking any national law and regulations, or other unsporting behaviour.
The winners of the hackathon will be announced on 26th of August (Thursday), 4pm MYT and prizes will be given to the winners thereafter.