ACM Hackathon!

October 31^st - November 14^th

Rules

• All skill levels are welcome! Judging will be based on execution and creativity, not complexity.

• The kickoff was our Halloween party on the 31st, and entries will be due before our meeting on November the 14th.

• Teams have a maximum size of 3.

• Teams can write their projects in any language, but must upload them to Github for submission.

• Teams may not use any code written before the start of the hackathon. They may use publicly available assets such as images as long as they are copyright-free.

• All teams will give a presentation demonstrating their project. The presentation can be in any format from a discussion to a video to a live demo, but it must be 5 minutes or less.

• Full hackathon rules, along with the rubric, will be available here.

Criteria

Projects will be evaluated on 5 dimensions:

1. Theme - How well does the project incorporate the theme?

2. Creativity - Was the idea for the project original?

3. Accessibility - Is the project easy to use and understand?

4. Polish - How complete was the project?

5. Presentation - Was the project presented well? Was the speaker well prepared?

Prizes

The prizes are:

• A Steam gift card
• An Amazon gift card
• Snacks & Sodas

First place will have first pick of the prizes, and so on.

Prompt: Generator

Teams will build their projects based the theme. The theme for this year is “Generator” - teams must build and project that generates something. It could be maps, images, stories, or anything else.

Submission

The deadline for projects is November 14th. You can find the submission form here. Don’t forget to upload your code to GitHub!