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Judging Protocol & Schedule

API Sponsors

If you are using one of the sponsored API's/Services, please list your project here

Qualifying Pitches

3:00 - 5:00pm, Main Stage

  • 2 minutes, hard stop
  • 1 minute Q + A
  • Bring your laptop or phone to demo
  • We recommend practicing your pitch. Cut out any fluff.
  • Arrive to stand in line at least 5 minutes before your scheduled start time.
  • Ensure that your demo is ready & working; you will not get another chance.
  • Got slides? Sure, that's ok. But likely only working prototypes will advance you to the next round

Review where you are on the schedule here: Posted at 2:00pm

We are using the US Navy Observatory Master Clock for time. If you're on a Mac, you should be synced to this, but it's worth verifying to make sure: http://www.usno.navy.mil/USNO/time/display-clocks/simpletime

If you are not present for your scheduled presentation, you will be disqualified from overall prizes/presentations.

The top 6 teams will move on to present on a judging panel, where we will discuss your project on video for around 10 minutes.

Note that the top 6 teams are contending for the overall hackathon winers. API sponsors may opt to select winners outside of this top 6.

The top 6 teams will be present and take questions on video, which will be streamed to the televisions throughout the GitHub office. If you do not wish to be on video, you can opt to not join your team in your presentation.

Top 6 Teams Panel

5:30 - 6:30

Winners will be announced in the Slack channel #announcements around 5:00pm.

Any commits after 6:00pm will disqualify you from overall prizes and presentations

Dinner, Beer, & Wine

6:00

This is your time to stop coding, chill, eat, and watch the top 6 teams show off their projects on video

Top 3 Teams Presentation

7:20, Main Stage

The top three teams will deliver 7-minute presentations on stage

API Awards

7:45, Main Stage

API Sponsors will announce the winners of their prizes

Overall Awards

8:00, Main Stage

The top 3 teams (presenting top 3) will be awarded their prizes.

Mingling

8:10 - 9:00

Feel free to stick around and mingle for an hour or so

A note on time

Once we get into the swing of things, actual times such as the API Awards and Presentations may vary. Please note that time for your Qualifying Pitch will not vary.

Top 3 Presentations: Presentation Guideline

This is a guideline only, feel free to deviate as you wish

The Setup (1 Min)

Introduce:

  • Yourself
  • The Problem
  • The Solution

The Demo (4.5 min)

Your Product

  • Why it solves the problem
  • How it solves the problem
  • Show off your product
  • How you're using specific API's or services

The Tech (1 minute)

  • What technologies did you use to build this?
  • What challenges did you face while building this?
  • How did you overcome those challenges?

The Sign-off

  • Briefly: The problem
  • Briefly: Why your product solves it
  • Who you are and contact info, if desired