Eligibility

All participants must RSVP for the Zoohackathon through the respective host site registration webpages located on https://forms.gle/w8dHMys21BjGLrb48. To find a complete list of upcoming events, visit http://www.zoohackathon.com. ; Zoohackathon organizers reserve the right to verify eligibility and to adjudicate on any dispute at any time.  All teams and individuals should register as private individuals, representing only themselves, and not on behalf of their employers.  Only works created between the start and end time of each entrant’s selected event location are eligible for prizes.

Submissions

Participants planning to attend an in-person event will register for their city’s event via https://forms.gle/w8dHMys21BjGLrb48.  

All event attendees will also need to create an account on DevPost (https://devpost.com). This is the platform where participants will need to submit and upload their final projects prior to the end of the Zoohackathon event. Participants will also need to register for an account with a code sharing platform such as GitHub (https://github.com/) or Bitbucket (https://bitbucket.org) – these platforms can help facilitate collaborative coding and broader sharing and accessibility of codebases. GitHub or similar sites also have ways to track lines of code committed and the amount of subsequent reach of those codebases (e.g. the number of times a code base has been cloned/downloaded).

Throughout the events, participants will work in teams to create solutions that can help solve the problems indicated in the problem statement of their choice.  Teams may be composed of 2-6 individuals unless otherwise specified by the local host site.  Please contact the event organizers for more details on this.

Presentations and supporting content should be uploaded prior to the end of the event.  

In fact, the winning team from each host site, identified by the panel of judges is required to upload their Zoohackathon presentation and applicable content online on DevPost and GitHub (or a similar platform) before their Zoohackathon is over in order to be eligible for the 2019 global prize. Host site organizers should encourage teams to upload their presentations and all applicable content to DevPost and the code-sharing collaboration site (i.e. GitHub, Bitbucket, etc.) before leaving the event. 

All submissions must include a 2-5 minute demonstration (e.g. PowerPoint) or other visual digital presentation of the application /prototype/ or solution.