📜 Hacktech Rules
  • Teams of 1–4 people
  • Everyone on the team should contribute
  • You can use libraries, open-source code, and AI tools (you MUST credit them, and this will be taken into account during judging)
  • You can extend an existing project, but be clear about what’s new
  • Hacking ends at 9:00 AM PDT Sunday
📜 MLH Rules
  • You may not crosspost to other hackathons
  • You may not submit multiple projects
  • You may submit to multiple challenges
  • You may not work on your project before the event. You must stop development when submissions are due
  • This means that you should not be reusing code from previous projects.
  • You must submit your code in your Devpost submission as a publicly available link(GitHub link, repl.it, Google Drive link, etc). You should remove any API keys before sharing.
  • You may use publicly available frameworks, but you need to list said frameworks in a readme.
  • You may use LLM/ChatGPT/AI, but must state how you did so in your Devpost submission.
  • You must credit any tools used and be clear on what you made and what was generated by having a detailed readme. Your project should not be a reskin of an existing AI tool. While LLMs can be great tools, we want to see what you created/changed/built on during the weekend. If you do not credit your AI usage, you will be disqualified and reported to cheating@mlh.io

    Judging will be in person.

    This event is limited to students. No volunteers, organizers, or mentors are eligible to win any prizes, though they can work on projects for their portfolio if they wish.


Breaking ANY of the rules or MLH's code of conduct will result in disqualification.