> What? 🧐

1. We bring the workshops, prizes, and mentors from some of the world’s best IT companies to help you.
2. You bring your skills to the event and get working!
3. After 48 hours of intense work you get the chance to present your project.
4. We give away some epic prizes to the top 3 teams chosen by our judging panel.

> Prizes 🏆

We have £2000 worth of prizes for the top 3 teams and special winners (e.g. if you win our late-night challenges!)

• 1st: Marshall Stockwell II Portable Bluetooth Speaker
• 2nd: Dragon Touch Drone - DF01
• 3rd: to be announced...

> Schedule 🗓

Registration will start at 4pm on 12 February. The final submission will be on Sunday at 2pm so everything should wrap up by 4pm.

> FAQ 🤔

• Q: What is a hackathon?
  A: During a hackathon you have 24 to 48 hours to work with a small team on something new and exciting. You will compete with other teams, but in the end everyone is a winner!
• Q: What can I make?
  A: Anything! A website, an application or you can work with hardware as well! See below about hardware hacks.
• Q: Does this cost money?
  A: Nope. It is completely free!
• Q: Do I have to know how to code?
  A: No, as long as you want to work with others to help develop yours, or someone else’s idea! Generally, we need developers, designers and entrepreneurs.
• Q: Can I do hardware hacks?
  A: Yes of course! We might not be able to provide any hardware in a digital event context, but we will try our best to assist you in your hack.
• Q: Do I need to have a team to join?
  A: It's up to you if you'd like to form a team before or at the event. We're happy either way, in fact it might be better for you if you already have a team as you'll already know each other.
• Q: How big are the teams going to be?
  A: We'd like teams to have 4-5 participants.
• Q: What are the judging criteria?
  A: Our judging criteria are Technical Innovation, Technical Difficulty, Design, Execution, Pitch.
• Q: Do I have to be a student to attend?
  A: We only accept students, to keep the competition fair for all participants. You can still join if you've recently graduated or haven't gone to university yet but are 18 or over.

> Organisers 🤩

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  HackaSoton

  University of Southampton's society focused on running and attending hackathons, since 2014.

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  ECSS

  The University of Southampton's Electronics and Computer Science Society, providing events for over 2000 of its departmental members.

> Sponsors 😎

GOLD SPONSORS

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SILVER SPONSORS

BRONZE SPONSORS

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HACKING LEAGUE SPONSORS

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VENUE & MEDIA SPONSORS

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> Contact 😊

• [email protected]