Failure to follow these rules may result in disqualification:

  • Teams may include up to four participants; smaller teams and solo hackers are allowed

  • Only submit projects to Small Business Innovation Sprint Hackathon; cross-submissions to other hackathons are prohibited

  • All code must be uploaded and linked on Devpost before the 6:00 PM deadline

  • Submissions with a demo but no accessible code will be disqualified

  • Public frameworks, libraries, and AI tools are allowed; copied or uncredited code will result in disqualification

  • Each participant may contribute to only one project

  • Credit all external tools or libraries in your README

  • No coding before the official start time, but ideation is allowed beforehand

  • Judging will be in-person expo style; at least one team member must be present to qualify for prizes