May 2023 #31

Theme: To Be Announced

More details will be announced during the introductory webinar.

Schedule: All times are in BST (Irish/UK time)

Wednesday, 10th May

• Register for the Intro Webinar Here, which kicks off the event at 17:00.


• Teams will be assigned immediately after the Intro Webinar and announced in the Slack channel.


• Create your team Slack channel and connect with your Team Facilitator.

Thursday/Friday, 11th & 12th May

• Set up your team page in the Hackathon app, project board, workspaces, etc.


• Plan your project, project management, and dividing up of tasks.


• Recommended first deployment on Friday.

Saturday/Sunday, 13th & 14th May

• Each team member dedicates a minimum of 3-5 hours per day to working in sprints on solo tasks, chatting with, connecting and working together as a team.


• Continuous deployment.

Monday, 15th May

• Final touches to project.


• Update Hackathon App team page (team name, project name, banner, logo, description, etc.).


• Final deployment.


• Submit project & add details to team page.


• 3pm sharp - Project Submission Deadline - no further commits or changes to projects.


• Register for the Project Presentations Webinar Here @ 17:00: At least one member per team to join and present.

Tuesday, 16th May

Winners will be announced at 4pm on Slack.

Judging Criteria

1. How much fun is the game to play?


2. The project uses an original or innovative idea, design, or implementation.


3. The project was well-planned and executed, using GitHub Projects.


4. Project uses (or expands upon) the provided readme template.


5. The project focus is realistic, and has an overall sense of completeness.