You should read the full hackathon rules before starting your first Sprint. Below is a summary of the highlights:

• Team Size: Fellows will break up into teams of 3-4 within their Pod. Your Pod Leader will help you do this during the kickoff.

• Timeline: Each team has between the end of the kickoff and the start of final demos to create their project submission.

• Project Requirements:

  • Fellows must create a project that aligns with the theme shared at the beginning of the Sprint.

  • The project must be “Open Sourced” (i.e. made available on GitHub with an Open Source license) at the end of the hackathon.

  • You’ll also be evaluated for your use of Git and GitHub “Best Practices” while collaborating on the project. This includes using branches, pull requests, reviewing each other’s code, writing a comprehensive README, & using issues to track tasks.

• Demos:

  • All of your mentor’s Pods will come together to demo their projects to each other, your Pod Leader, and any outside visitors or judges your Pod Leader chooses to invite.

  • Each team will have 5-10 minutes to present and demo their project on Zoom.

  • You’ll need to share a GitHub repo and video demo of the project in addition to the live demo that you will do.

• Global Finals:

  • The video demos that you record at the end of each Sprint will be submitted to the Global Finals along with all the other submissions from Explorer Pods.

  • Every two weeks we'll host a Global Finals demo livestream where we'll play those videos and have judges select the top 3 submissions.

  • The teams who created the top 3 projects will each win a prize.