All decisions made by the organizing committee are final and binding.
All participants and projects must follow the event Code of Conduct. Violations may result in penalties or disqualification.
All participants must be present at the venue throughout the event unless granted permission by organizers.
Teams may contact organizers or volunteers for assistance at any time.
Participants may bring their own laptops, chargers, and required peripherals. Any additional equipment or external devices must be disclosed to the organizers before the event.
After the theme reveal, teams must work independently. Sharing code, solutions, prompts, or technical assistance with other teams may result in penalties, including a 1-hour time deduction or disqualification.
All project-specific work must be completed during the hackathon. Public AI models, APIs, libraries, frameworks, and datasets are allowed. Pre-built projects or competition-specific code created before the event must not be used.
Plagiarism, cheating, falsifying work, or any form of malpractice will result in penalties, including a 1-hour time deduction, and may lead to disqualification.
Development must stop at the specified time. Only minor bug fixes required for the demo are allowed afterward. No new features or major code changes may be added.
Each team will receive an official GitHub repository from the organizers. All development and final submission must be completed through this repository.
Teams must push progress to the GitHub repository every 30 minutes. Commit history will be monitored by the technical team. Empty or misleading commits created only to satisfy this rule are prohibited.
Teams must not delete, rewrite, or tamper with Git history. Any attempt to manipulate repository records may result in disqualification.
Teams must disclose the AI tools, models, APIs, and services used in their project.
Teams must be able to explain their code, AI workflow, models, datasets, and development process. A working prototype must be demonstrated during the final evaluation.
The organizing committee reserves the right to interpret these rules and make final decisions regarding any matters not explicitly covered herein.
