Code of Conduct

Our Ideathon is dedicated to providing a safe and comfortable environment and harassment-free experience for everyone, regardless of the following:

  • gender identity and expression
  • age
  • sexual orientation
  • disability
  • physical appearance / body size
  • race/ethnicity/nationality
  • religion
  • political views
  • previous hackathon attendance or lack of
  • technical / subject matter expertise

We do not tolerate harassment of hackathon participants in any form. Sexual language and imagery is not appropriate at any hackathon venue, which includes the following:

  • Official competition Slack and Zoom
  • Talks, presentations, or demos
  • Social media
  • Any other online media

Ideathon participants violating these rules may be sanctioned or expelled from the event at the discretion of the organisers.
-------

Participant Eligibility

The Ideathon is open to any undergraduate or graduate university/college student. If you're taking time between semesters to work, or to pause your education, you're still welcome to participate.

-------

 

Submission Requirements

Participants will self-organize in teams of three to four. Teaming will be facilitated through Slack and Zoom.

Unlike a conventional hackathon, where the expectation is to have a functioning prototype (usually in the form of software), at this Ideathon, a team's goal is to develop a well-researched plan that they will pitch to the judging panel.

Each team will choose one of two tracks, each of which poses a broad problem statement for the team to investigate. Once a team has chosen a track, they should do the following:

  • Inform the organizing team to confirm their participation in the competition:
    • Each member on the team
    • Which track they've picked
    • Whether they intend to use data from our industry partners, and confirmation of signing required documentation (NDA, License Agreement, etc)
  • Identify a specific issue within their track that they think is crucial to address.
    The team should have qualitative or quantitative evidence to support their rationale for choosing this issue.
  • Develop an action plan for addressing the identified issue
    The team should think about the problem from the holistic lenses of engineering, city planning and policy, - e.g. consider a wide array of factors from implementation cost, to public perception and political climate

This work will be summarized in a final pitch. While the structure of the pitch is up to you, you must meet the following requirements.

Proposal Requirements:

  • Must be in video form, and less than 5 minutes in length
  • Integrate elements of urban planning, engineering, and public policy
  • Clearly communicate why the issue you identified should be the top priority
  • Articulate an action plan to implement your proposal