You should read the full orientation hackathon rules after your kickoff. Below is a summary of the highlights:

• Team Size: Fellows will break up into teams of 3-4 within their Pod. Your mentor will help you do this later in the call.

• Timeline: Each team has between the end of the call and the start of demos on Friday to create their project submission.

• Project Requirements:

  • Fellows must use at least one of the Pod’s Open Source technologies in their project. If they use more than one of the technologies, your mentor will award you “bonus points” during judging on Friday.

  • 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:

  • On Friday, all of your mentor’s Pods will come together to demo their projects to each other, your mentor, and any outside visitors or judges your mentor chooses to invite. Each team will have 5-10 minutes to present and demo their project on Zoom.

  • We’ll be awarding prizes for the top 3 projects.

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