Participant Eligibility:

  • Must be a high school student (grades 9-12)

    • Incoming and just-graduated students are eligible to participate

  • Must have registered through the Google Form and Devpost prior to the event

 

Guidelines:

  • No non-original work can be submitted to OneHacks 

  • Submission will be a 3-5 minute video, as well as a GitHub link with your project code

    • Submit video link (YouTube, Vimeo, etc) to Devpost

    • Explain project and idea in the video

    • Upload your code to GitHub

    • Demo your project

    • Declare AI Usage

 

General Rules:

  • Treat all of your fellow competitors with respect and integrity

    • Do not attempt to cheat or steal other’s projects in any way

  • Build project within this time frame

    • You can use previous functions, but don’t copy completely from previous projects

    • Do your best to create a new original project

    • Cross-posting is allowed only if project is started within OneHacks IV hacking period

  • No non-original work can be submitted to OneHacks 

    • Non-original work will be disqualified 

  • Usage of outside resources for documentation and reference purposes is permitted



AI Guidelines:

  • Usage of AI in assisting with project development is permitted as long as it is mentioned in the project submission video.

  • If your project includes custom Machine Learning or Artificial Intelligence, it must be coded and trained (being aware of unconscious bias) by your team within the 7-day coding window

    • If you are training your ML software, all sources of training data and resources you consulted must be provided (e.g. video training tutorials)

    • Usage of an API connecting to services such as OpenAI is permitted