Hackathon Rules:

1. You cannot participate solo, there must be 2+ members to each team. If you are a solo team member, you can find other members to work with at the Hackathon by communicating through Discord.

2. You must notify the Hackathon Committee if you have any established project, if it has been submitted in other competitions, and/or how far along you are with your project. This will be necessary when the judging portion occurs. Your project will be submitted into a different category appropriately fitted with its stage.

3. You are strongly encouraged to participate for the whole weekend. The Yale CBIT Healthcare Hackathon is committed to urging members full participation as an opportunity to experience the event at full capacity. Opportunities include but are not limited to, access to renowned speakers, expert mentors, networking, distinguished judges, prizes and more.

4. You must have a Discord username and submit it to the Hackathon committee by emailing [email protected]. Discord will be the communication platform used throughout the duration of the hackathon event.

5. You must abide by the code of conduct. Please take a minute to read the code of conduct below.

6. Final projects are not to be submitted through Devpost. Information on how to submit final project will be supplied in your program book provided immediately before the start of the hackathon.

7. Final presentations are due as a 3-minute YouTube video and/or narrated PowerPoint!  

We recommend:

~1 min: background and presentation of unmet need

~1 min: description of proposed solution

~1 min: explanation of business plan & team member backgrounds. (In the interest of time, not all team members need to speak)

*There will be 2 rounds of judging in this Hackathon.

1. There will be a semi-finalist judging session that will take place with a group of 8 semi-final judges as the first round. The process will include the decision of which 8-10 teams will move onto the final presentations. This judging session will not be public.

2. The final presentation judging session will take place publicly in front of a panel of 6-8 final judges with the opportunity of a 2-minute Q&A with the judges.  After the final presentations are finished, the final judges will then privately deliberate and chose the top 4 winning teams. 

Code of Conduct:

Code for the Yale CBIT Healthcare Hackathon prides its mission on working with diverse perspectives such as clinicians, engineers, designers, software developers, business people, and patients who come together to develop and build solutions that could address challenges facing healthcare today. This hackathon is intended to inspire and encourage one another through creativity, problem solving, innovation, using technology.

Yale CBIT is committed to providing a safe and welcoming space, without regard to age, gender, race, ethnicity, nationality, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, mental or physical disability, physical appearance, neuro(a)typicality, religion, level of knowledge, level of experience, parental status, marital status, socioeconomic status or background, political affiliation, or any other attribute. The Leadership of Code for Yale CBIT shares the responsibility of enforcing these policies as necessary to maintain an open and welcoming environment.

Keep Your Team Open: Except for instances where it would significantly impede productivity, there is always room on a project for one more person. Unless doing so would be counter-productive to the goals of the project, anybody who is interested in a project is allowed to join it.

Applicability: This code of conduct serves to ensure that everybody and anybody who wishes to participate can do so and applies to all Code for this hackathon. Further, it applies to the online structure related to Code for Yale CBIT, including postings on Discord and Zoom.

Respect the Opinions and Abilities of Others: Yale CBIT's Hackathon is designed as a place for people of all different skill levels and approaches to meet and work together toward common goals. As a result, we do not expect that everybody will share the same opinion. However, we do expect that disagreement is done respectfully. Additionally, we expect that members will educate others respectfully. To this end, do not assume anybody else’s level of expertise or knowledge. Do not depreciate a lack of information or insist on unnecessary precision. We are all learning, so afford others—as well as yourself—room to grow.

Do Not Harass: Harassment is any unwelcome or hostile behavior towards another person for any reason. This includes, but is not limited to, offensive verbal comments related to personal characteristics or choices, sexual images or comments, deliberate intimidation, bullying, stalking, following, harassing photography or recording, sustained disruption of discussion or events, nonconsensual publication of private comments, inappropriate physical contact, or unwelcome sexual attention. Conduct need not be intentional to be harassment.

Code for the Yale CBIT Healthcare Hackathon will not tolerate such behavior.

 If you have any questions or wish to further discuss any of the above with a committee team member, please email us at [email protected]