Eligibility Criteria

• Only current university students may participate
• Participants must be aged 18+
• Professional organisations, companies and the hackathon's organisers are not permitted to participate
• All participants must be officially registered and have a ticket from IKU Womxn in STEM Hackathon's Luma
• All participants must be physically present onsite to compete. Remote participation is not permitted

Organisers reserve the right to verify student status and eligibility. 

Code of Conduct

• Participants must behave respectfully toward fellow participants, organisers, sponsors and the venue in person and online
• Harassment, discrimination, unsafe behaviour or damage to property will not be tolerated
• Participants must follow all instructions from organisers and venue staff at all times

Liability

Participants are responsible for their own equipment and personal belongings. Organisers are not liable for loss, theft or damage of these. 

Team Rules

• Participants must be part of a team
• A participant must only be part of one team
• A team must have between 2 to 4 members
• Each team may submit one project for only one track or, if applicable, theme

Project Requirements

• All work must be created during the hackathon building period (17-18th October 2026)
• Pre-built projects or substantial pre-written codebases are not allowed
• Use of open-source libraries and frameworks; public APIs and pre-trained models are permitted
• The core idea of the project and implementaion of above resources must be developed during the event
• Project must not violate data usage policies
• Project must not be plagiarised or misrepresented

Devpost Submission Requirements

A submission must include:

• Project name
• Project description (what it does, the problem it addresses, which track you're competing in)
• How it was built
• 2 minute video recording
• GitHub link