All participants in BigRed//Hacks must be officially registered and checked in at the start of the event.

To be eligible to win a prize, teams must submit their project to Devpost no later than 8:00am on Sunday, September 20 and demo their projects at the Project Exposition and (if advanced) the Final Demonstrations.

General Rules:

  • All work on the project must be done between the hours of 8:00pm on Friday, Sept 18 and 8:00am on Sunday, Sept 20.  Work should be done in the Physical Sciences Building only.
  • Any outside resources used in the project must be used under permission of their license and should be equally and fairly obtainable by all hackathon participants.
  • Projects may not contain or promote any content that is illegal, infringes copyright, or demeans any other person or group. 
  • Decisions made by judges for prizes are final and may not be contested.
  • Participants must follow all instructions made by a hackathon staff member of volunteer, or a staff member of Cornell University.

This list is only a sample and is not complete.  The full and final rules are available on our website.