Dates

4/5 - Opening Ceremony + Team Project Selection

4/6 - Hacking Day!

4/7 - Closing Ceremony + Winners Announced

Eligibility

Students at Stanford and MIT only

Project and Submission Requirements

All submissions are required to include a GitHub repo of all code for the nonprofits to use as they see fit.

In addition, you must submit a quick video demo/pitch for use in judging. 

Submissions missing either of these parts will not be considered.

Prizes

$500 in prizes!

The 3 grand prize winners will be eligible for prizes. The fourth prize is the 'Most Creative' which will be chosen from the remaining pool of nonprofit-nominated teams.

Judging Criteria and Winner Selection

Teams will be judged on the following 3 criteria:

  1. Clean Code/Maintainability - we're building for real nonprofits for it's essential that code is readable, and easy for another developer to pick up. This is more important than finishing the proposal in its entirety.
  2. Impact of Tool - how well does it fulfill the need of the nonprofit and change lives
  3. Innovation - going above and beyond what the proposal specifies in a unique way