Hackathon Spirit

Hackathons are like marathons: Some people go to compete but most people take part to better themselves and have fun. Whatever the reason is you’re at a hackathon, make sure you’re upholding the spirit of the hackathon by collaborating with other teams, helping beginners, and having fun.

The rules of the competition

You must treat all team members, competitors, judges, coaches, volunteers, etc, with respect and courtesy.
Hackathon teams will be a maximum of 4 people
All prizes are to be shared between all team members
Teams should be made up exclusively of students or EMCRs who are not organizers, volunteers, judges, sponsors, or in any other privileged position at the event.
All team members should be present at the event. Leaving the venue for some time to hack elsewhere is fine.
Teams can of course gain advice and support from organizers, volunteers, sponsors, and others.
All work on a project should be done during the hackathon.
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.
Teams must stop hacking once the time is up. However, teams are allowed to debug and make small fixes to their programs after time is up.
Teams can be disqualified from the competition at the organizers’ discretion. Reasons might include but are not limited to breaking the Competition Rules, behaving in a way that violates the MLH Code of Conduct or other unsporting behaviour..