Judging

The concluding hack slides will be made available to judges before the final presentation starts.

The final presentations are 10 minutes (hard limit) including demo and/or screenshot. Also, aditional few minutes will be provided for Q&A.

The slides should cover the following aspects: (Judging criterial)

(1) Impact (10 points)

  • How big of a problem are you solving?

  • Potential benefit and impact.

  • Can this problem be solved before the project?

(2) Solution (20 points)

  • Creativity of the technical approach (doesn’t have to be original, but is there a fresh take).

  • How well does the solution address the problem (feasibility, scalability, are there simple alternatives)

(3) Execution (20 points)

  • What was actually accomplished, compare to what was proposed, lessons learned?

  • How well the hack group was organize?

  • Are there surprises along the way and how well the team coped with that?

(4) Presentation (10 points)

  • How well was presented?

  • When project could have a demo, was it presented?

  • Did the demo achieved the goal?