1. All submissions must have been created during the duration of the event, November 1st, 2025 at 12 pm to November 2nd, 2025 at 12 pm. Anything before or after that will not be accepted.

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 further define this: a project that 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 only be a max 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 be competing for, and the table number they are at by 9:00 a.m. on November 2nd, 2025.

HARD DEADLINE:
All participant(s) MUST stop working on their projects on November 2nd 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. Should your submission contain AI generated code, you are responsible for the transparency towards what you implemented and what AI implemented. Use of AI without citation/transparency is considered plagiarism and is subject to disqualification .