1. All submissions must have been created during the duration of the event, November 2nd, 2024 at 12 pm to November 3rd, 2024 at 12 pm. Anything before or after that will not be accepted.

2. To participate, you must be a full time student based in the US.

3. If you are under the age of 18, you must be a student enrolled in the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT). If you are under 18 and not enrolled at RIT, you cannot participate in this event.

4. This hackathon is fully in-person.

5. You may not submit projects that you have created in the past. To further define this: a project that you have used or created in the past for another hackathon, game jam, etc is not eligible to be submitted to HACK.COMS.

6. You may not submit other people's projects or source code.

7. Teams can only be a max of 1-4 people.
 
8. You must register at: https://events.mlh.io/events/11517-hack-coms-2024

9. You must read and agree to the MLH Code of Conduct: https://static.mlh.io/docs/mlh-code-of-conduct.pdf

10. The participant(s) MUST submit a Devpost for their project to be considered for judging.

All participant(s) must create their own Devpost account with their legal/preferred name to be eligible for prizes.

Soft Submission Deadline:
(1) One participant per team MUST make a Devpost submission that has the project name, the categories the team will be competing for, and the table number they are at by 11/3 at 9:00 am.  

Hard Submission Deadline:
All participant(s) MUST stop working on their projects on 11/3 at 12:00 pm. Participant(s) must submit their Devpost submissions by then. The submission should include a filled out Devpost, all the team participants, the table number, the categories the team is competing for, and link(s) to the code/artifacts.