Eligibility: The Hackathon is open to:

Project and Submission Requirements:

(i) What to Create: Entrants must build a software application to address key challenges for AI cross-disciplinary education.

(ii) Functionality: The project must be capable of being successfully installed and running consistently on the platform for which it is intended and must function as depicted in the video and/or expressed in the text description.

(iii) Platforms: A submitted project must run on the platform for which it is intended and which is specified in the submission requirements. 

(iv) New: Projects must be newly created by the Entrant.

(v) Third Party Integrations: If a Project integrates any third-party SDK, APIs and/or data, Entrant must be authorized to use them and explicitly show authorization in video.

(vi) HIPAA: Solutions may not ask for, include, or collect protected health information (“PHI”), as defined in the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (“ (personal health information, / HIPAA”) and its implementing regulations,) or otherwise break violate guidelines.

(vii) Testing: The entrant must make the project available free of charge and without any restriction, for testing, evaluation and use by the sponsor, administrator and judges until the judging period ends. Entrants must make their project available for testing by: 

Submission Requirements:

Submissions to the Hackathon must meet the following requirements:

The video portion of the Submission:

Language Requirements

All submission materials must be in English. 

Team Representation

If a team or organization is entering the Gator Hackathon, they must appoint and authorize one individual (the “Representative”) to represent, act, and enter a submission, on their behalf. The representative must meet the eligibility requirements above. By entering a submission on the Gator Hackathon Website on behalf of a team or organization you represent and warrant that you are the representative authorized to act on behalf of your team or organization.

Intellectual Property: Your submission must: (a) be your (or your Team, or Organization’s) original work product; (b) be solely owned by you, your team, your organization with no other person or entity having any right or interest in it; and (c) not violate the intellectual property rights or other rights including but not limited to copyright, trademark, patent, contract, and/or privacy rights, of any other person or entity. An entrant may contract with a third party for technical assistance to create the submission provided the submission components are solely the entrant’s work product and the result of the entrant’s ideas and creativity, and the entrant owns all rights to them. An Entrant may submit a submission that includes the use of open source software or hardware, provided the entrant complies with applicable open source licenses and, as part of the submission, creates software that enhances and builds upon the features and functionality included in the underlying open source product. By entering the Gator Hackathon, you represent, warrant, and agree that your submission meets these requirements.

Intellectual Property Rights.

All submissions remain the intellectual property of the individuals or organizations that developed them. By submitting an entry, entrants agree that the sponsor will have a fully paid, non-exclusive license to use such entry for judging the entry. Entrants agree that the sponsor and devpost shall have the right to promote the submission and use the name, likeness, voice and image of all individuals contributing to a submission, in any materials promoting or publicizing the Gator Hackathon and its results, during the hackathon period and for three years thereafter.  Some submission components may be displayed to the public. Other submission materials may be viewed by the sponsor, devpost, and judges for screening and evaluation. By submitting an entry or accepting any prize, entrants represent and warrant that (a) submitted content is not copyrighted, protected by trade secret or otherwise subject to third-party intellectual property rights or other proprietary rights, including privacy and publicity rights, unless entrant is the owner of such rights or has permission from their rightful owner to post the content; and (b) the content submitted does not contain any viruses, trojan horses, worms, spyware or other disabling devices or harmful or malicious code.

Financial or Preferential Support: A project must not have been developed, or derived from a project developed, with financial or preferential support from the sponsor or administrator. Such projects include, but are not limited to, those that received funding or investment for their development, were developed under contract, or received a commercial license, from the sponsor or administrator any time prior to the end of the Gator Hackathon submission period. The sponsor, at their sole discretion, may disqualify a project, if awarding a prize to the project would create a real or apparent conflict of interest.

Judging Criteria and Winner Selection:

Eligible submissions will be evaluated by a panel of judges selected by the Sponsor (the “Judges”). Judges may be employees of the sponsor or third parties, may or may not be listed individually on the Hackathon Website, and may change before or during the Judging Period. 

Entries will be judged on the following equally weighted criteria, and according to the sole and absolute discretion of the judges:

 The scores from the Judges will determine the potential winners of the applicable prizes. The entrant(s) that are eligible for a prize, and whose submissions earn the highest overall scores based on the applicable judging criteria, will become potential winners of that prize.

Tie Breaking. For each prize listed below, if two or more submissions are tied, the tied submission with the highest score in the first applicable criterion listed above will be considered the higher scoring submission. In the event any ties remain, this process will be repeated, as needed, by comparing the tied submissions’ scores on the next applicable criterion. If two or more submissions are tied on all applicable criteria, the panel of Judges will vote on the tied submissions.