1. All submissions must have been created during the event, from November 7, 2025, at 12 pm to November 8, 2025, at 12 pm. We will not accept anything before or after that.

2. To participate, you must be a full-time student based in the US.

3. If you are under the age of 18, you must be a student enrolled in the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT). If you are under 18 and not enrolled at RIT, you cannot participate in this event.

4. This hackathon is fully in-person.

5. You may not submit projects that you have created in the past. To clarify: a project you have used or created in the past for another hackathon, game jam, etc. is not eligible to be submitted to HACK.COMS.

6. You may not submit other people's projects or source code.

7. Teams can be a maximum of 1-4 people.
 
8. You must register at: https://events.mlh.io/events/12827-hack-coms

9. You must read and agree to the MLH Code of Conduct: https://static.mlh.io/docs/mlh-code-of-conduct.pdf

10. The participant(s) MUST submit a Devpost for their project by the soft deadline to be considered for judging.

All participant(s) must create their own Devpost account with their legal/preferred name to be eligible for prizes.

SOFT DEADLINE:
To be considered for any category, participant(s) must submit a Devpost submission with the project name, the categories they will compete in, and their table number by 9:00 a.m. on November 8, 2025.

HARD DEADLINE:
All participant(s) MUST stop working on their projects on November 8 at 12:00 pm. Participant(s) must submit their Devpost submissions by then. The submission should include a filled out Devpost, all the team participants, the table number, the categories the team is competing for, and link(s) to the code/artifacts.

11. Your devpost submission must contain a publicly accessible GitHub repository.

12. All submissions must be eligible for the category in which they are judged for

13. Should your submission contain AI-generated code, you are responsible for transparency about what you implemented and what AI implemented. Use of AI without citation/transparency is considered plagiarism and is subject to disqualification.