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What is a Hackathon?

A sprint-like event where participants team up and create solutions to real-life challenges in an intense period of time. Using creativity, technology and mentoring, the week results in prototypes, fresh new concepts and innovation.

I have an idea, what do I need to do?

1. Find your teammates. Or apply solo, and ask to be added to a brand new team if you want. Lone wolves are also welcome.
2. Register and confirm your place on the event!
3. Join us on the 20th of October and start brainstorming. Work on your solution with your team.
4. Feel free to request mentoring on your project from experts.
5. Submit your project video by 13:00 on Sunday. Take home your prize!
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What is the official language of the event?

The event’s language is Albanian, including the mentorings and the pitch sessions. However, we might need to switch to English for our Finnish Guests when presenting the prices in the Grand Finale.

Is participation free of charge?

Yes, you can enter the hackathon for free.

How do I register as a team lead or as a team member?

Through the website link that paces you to our registration platform.
‍As a team lead: Registering via the Junction site, choose Yes when asked if you’re applying as a team. Click the ☰ icon in the top left corner of the page and go to Team page.Click "Create a new team”.The platform will generate a unique team code. Send this to your team members using mail or any other method. It is not possible to share the code directly via the Junction App.
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‍As a team member: Registering via the Junction site, choose Yes when asked if you’re applying as a team. Click the ☰ icon in the top left corner of the page and go to Team page.Insert the code to "Join an existing team”. If you haven’t received a code from your team lead, ask them to re-check these instructions.
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It’s not possible to share through the Junction App, so please share the team code between all team members for example by email.

If one of the team members can't make it to the event, can a new member join?

Yes, just let the organizers know about the change. You can do that by sending a private message to Enxhi Minaj on Discord or via email to minaj.enxhi@hackjunction.com

How do I register as an individual?

Just simply register via the Junction site and choose ‘No’ when asked if you’re applying as a team.

What about team size?

You can have up to 5 or only 1 team member as you wish, it’s up to you. If you’re looking for brand new team members, we will organise a short event in the beginning for group matchmaking.

How can the competitors evaluate each other?

JunctionApp uses an algorithm named Gavel to judge projects. In this pairwise-comparison-based algorithm participants review each other’s projects. The system incorporates a lot of research on mathematical psychology along with fancy math, resulting in a fair and scalable reviewing system. The user is always given two projects to compare, asked to vote for the better one and compare the newer project to the next one (and so forth). This way, one doesn’t have to take in consideration what the absolute perfect, nor what the absolutely worst project would look like. It’s enough to decide the better one of the two that the system suggests. In addition, participants are naturally curious to understand why a certain project has won. Peer reviewing gives them the possibility to overlook other projects and cast their vote for the winners.

How will the grand winner be selected?

As soon as the evaluation ends on JunctionApp for the teams, we will announce the TOP 8 teams and ask them to prepare for the live pitch. They will have to present their ideas in 4 minutes and after each pitch there will be a quick Q&A session. This part aims to provide a closer insight into these solutions. In the interest of having a fair selection, we only take into consideration the registered teams’ and the partners’ votes since they will have the most relevant opinion and insight into the projects.
– Teams as well as the jury will get to vote for their favorite team on JunctionApp and choose the grand winner.

Is there a chance that a team can win all prizes?

It is possible to win a Challenge Prize and the Grand Prize. The only thing that’s not possible is winning more than one Challenge Prize, since all of teams can submit their project to no more than one challenge.

What is provided at the venue?

Participants are provided with food, drink, coffee, energy drinks, and a merch package including a T-shirt and more! However, there are no showers to refresh, only bathrooms, and although you can stay at night, there are no beds provided, and only a few beanbags will be available.

How can I submit my project?

To submit your project create a 2 minute video pitch, upload it to YouTube and link it on the submission form, along with a GitHub repo. The video can have you talking, a live app demo (if you have one), some cool animation, etc… whatever fits best. Please observe these conditions strictly as in other cases we will unfortunately not be able to evaluate your project.

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