MorrIdeas: A Morrisville Hackathon for Gamification

Do I need to pay any money to register for the Hackathon? No. You do not have to pay anything to anyone to register yourself for any Hackathon on HackerEarth.

Do I need to have any specific qualifications to be a participant for the Hackathon? If you love to code or design innovative ideas, you are more than welcome to participate in the Hackathon!

How do I submit what I have made for the Hackathon? You have to develop the application on your local system and submit it on HackerEarth in tar/zip file format along with instructions to run the application and source code.

Do we need to have the entire idea fully working? A well-thought out gamification system at the conceptual level that is fully flushed out with design work is acceptable. No coding is necessary for this hackithon, unless you compete in the local competition.

How is the environment? Will your environment support any language? Will you provide any IDE and DB for us to work on ideas? Morrisville Central is coded with React Native. You have to develop the entire software application on your local system and submit it on HackerEarth in tar/zip file format along with instructions to run the application and source code.

Does one have to be online and available for the entire duration of the Hackathon? Only if you select to compete in the local event, then at least one team member must be physically in attendance for the event through the judging times on April 27th, 2024, from 10AM until 5PM EST. No, one does not need to be logged in on HackerEarth or be online for the entire duration. You can develop the application on your local system based on the given themes and then submit it on HackerEarth, on the specific challenge page.

Since there is no specific technology mentioned, are there any restrictions on using number of pre-built libraries? There is no restriction to use any language, technology stack, or libraries. You can use any of them to create the web/mobile application.

Do I need to give a demo for the product that I have built? We do want at least a narrated slideshow that explains how the gamification system each team has designed will function. Explaining the system, how it works, any other ideas or thoughts on it as well. The local competition will require the team to present the idea to the judges at the event.

A fully developed application need to have a solid backend for data storage like SQL, SharePoint etc. since its online, is it accepted to show only the proto type of it? Yes it's absolutely fine to submit just the prototype. If you use any database like MySQL or PostgresSQL you can also submit a database dump along with your submission. However you are allowed to submit just the prototype.

If it is a team submission, does that mean all team members will have access to work at the same time? Yes, all team members can login from their account and do application submission on HackerEarth.

Who will own the IP(Intellectual Property) Rights to the product that I have built? The developer/developers of the web/mobile application will have all rights and own the IP of the product. However, all code needs to be in public domain (open source) so that it can be evaluated by the judges.