Rules and guidelines

Play fair. Build boldly.

By registering, every team member agrees to these rules. The rule book is the full, official version.

01Eligibility and teams

The hackathon is open to current university students. Every participant must hold a valid student ID.
You may take part alone or in a team of two or three. Three is the maximum.
Team members may come from different universities.
A person may belong to only one team. One email address and one student ID can be registered once.

Phase 1 is free. Submit your team details, each member's student ID card image and your idea document (PDF or DOCX).
Ideas are scored out of 100: problem relevance 20, innovation 25, AI application 25, feasibility 15, potential impact 15.
The top 30 teams are shortlisted for the on-site round. Results are sent by email to every team member.
A registration cannot be edited after it is submitted. Check the review step carefully.

Once the shortlist is published, selected teams may start building their project. 21 – 23 November is the pre-build period.
Project code may be written only from 21 November. Before that, only research, planning, design and dataset preparation are allowed.
Shortlisted teams confirm their place by paying the team fee through bKash or Nagad Send Money and submitting the transaction ID on this website.
The fee is per team, not per person.
Payments are verified by hand by the organisers. A place is confirmed only when you receive the confirmation email.
Only send money to the numbers shown on this website's payment page.
A team that has not paid by 23 November loses its seat, even if it has started building.

The on-site final lasts five hours: finish the project you started in the pre-build, submit it and present it to the judges.
Your solution must make meaningful use of artificial intelligence.
You may use open-source libraries, public datasets, pretrained models and AI coding assistants. Credit what you use.
Bring your own laptop and chargers. Bring your student ID card for check-in.
Projects must be your own work, started on or after 21 November. Reusing an earlier project, plagiarism or outside help leads to disqualification.

Treat participants, mentors, volunteers and judges with respect. Harassment of any kind is not tolerated.
The judges' decisions are final.
The organisers may disqualify a team that breaks these rules or provides false information.