AI Accelerate: Unlocking New Frontiers Hackathon  - Google Cloud Partnerships Official Rules 

NO PURCHASE OR PAYMENT NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN. VOID WHERE PROHIBITED. CONTEST IS OPEN TO EVERYONE EXCEPT FOR RESIDENTS OF AFGHANISTAN, ANTARCTICA, CHINA, DJIBOUTI, IRAQ, SOMALIA, VENEZUELA, WESTERN SAHARA, ITALY, BRAZIL, QUEBEC,  CUBA, IRAN, SYRIA, NORTH KOREA, SUDAN, BELARUS, RUSSIA, VIETNAM, AND THE CRIMEA, DONETSK, AND LUHANSK REGIONS OF UKRAINE, OR AS LISTED AS INELIGIBLE IN THE ELIGIBILITY SECTION BELOW. 

ENTRY IN THIS CONTEST CONSTITUTES YOUR ACCEPTANCE OF THESE OFFICIAL RULES.

The AI Accelerate Hackathon - Google Cloud Partnerships (the “Contest”) is a skill contest where Google Cloud Partnerships will share specific challenges set forth in these Rules as well as in the Devpost page for this Contest, and participants must develop solutions to one of the challenges.  The solution that you develop and submit will be evaluated by judges, who will choose the winner(s) in accordance with these Official Rules.  The prize(s) will be awarded to the participant(s) with the highest score for the judging criteria.  See below for the complete details.

1. BINDING AGREEMENT: In order to enter the Contest, you must agree to these Official Rules (“Rules”). Therefore, please read these Rules prior to entry to ensure you understand and agree. You agree that submission of an entry in the Contest constitutes agreement to these Rules. You may not submit an entry to the Contest and are not eligible to receive the prizes described in these Rules unless you agree to these Rules. These Rules form a binding legal agreement between you and Google with respect to the Contest.

2. SPONSOR: The Contest is sponsored by Google LLC (“Google” or “Sponsor”), a Delaware corporation located at 1600 Amphitheater Parkway, Mountain View, CA, 94043, USA. The Contest will be administered by Devpost, Inc. (“Devpost” or “Administrator”) located at 222 Broadway, Floor 19, New York, NY 10038.

3. PARTNER ENTITIES: The Partner Entities (“Partners”) include the following organizations:

1. Elastic

2. Fivetran

4. ELIGIBILITY: To be eligible to enter the Contest, you must: (1) be above the age of majority in the country, state, province or jurisdiction of residence (or at least twenty years old in Taiwan) at the time of entry; (2) not be a resident of Italy, Brazil, Quebec, Crimea, Cuba, Iran, Syria, North Korea, Sudan, Belarus, Russia or the Crimea, Donetsk, and Luhansk regions of Ukraine, or Afghanistan, Antarctica, China, Djibouti, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Somalia, Venezuela, Vietnam, Western Sahara, and any other country designated by the United States Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control to be subject to economic and trade sanctions; (3) not be a party identified on OFAC’s Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Person list or the Department of Commerce Denied Persons, Entities or Unverified lists; and (4) have access to the Internet as of September 16, 2025. Contest is void in Italy, Brazil, Quebec, Crimea, Cuba, Iran, Syria, North Korea, Sudan and where prohibited by law.  Employees, interns, contractors, and official office-holders of Google, the Partner Entities (as defined below) (“Partner”), Devpost, or any organizations involved with the design, production, paid promotion, execution, or distribution of the Contest, and their parent companies, subsidiaries, affiliates, and their respective directors, officers, employees, advertising and promotion agencies, representatives, and agents or their immediate family or members of their household (“Contest Entities”), and members of the Contest Entities’ and their immediate families (parents, siblings, children, spouses, and life partners of each, regardless of where they live) and members of the households (whether related or not) of such employees, officers and directors are ineligible to participate in this Contest. Sponsor reserves the right to verify eligibility and to adjudicate on any dispute at any time. Persons who are (1) residing in US embargoed countries, (2) ordinarily resident in US embargoed countries, or (3) otherwise prohibited by applicable export controls and sanctions programs may not participate in this contest. In addition, individuals or organizations that are employed by a government agency, or any other individual or organization whose participation in the Contest would create, in the sole discretion of the Sponsor and/or Administrator, a real or apparent conflict of interest are ineligible to participate in this Contest. 

If you are entering as part of a company or on behalf of your employer, these rules are binding on you, individually, and/or your employer.  If you are acting within the scope of your employment, as an employee, contractor, or agent of another party, you warrant that such party has full knowledge of your actions and has consented thereto, including your potential receipt of a prize.  You further warrant that your actions do not violate your employer’s or company’s policies and procedures.  

5. CONTEST PERIOD: The Contest begins at 9:00:00 A.M. Pacific Time (PT) Zone in the United States on September 16, 2025 and ends at 2:00 P.M. PT on October 24, 2025 (“Contest Period”). ENTRANTS ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR DETERMINING THE CORRESPONDING TIME ZONE IN THEIR RESPECTIVE JURISDICTIONS.

6. HOW TO ENTER: NO PURCHASE OR PAYMENT NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN. To enter the Contest, visit the Contest website located at aiinaction.devpost.com (“Contest Site”) during the Contest Period, find the challenges provided by Partner Entities on the Devpost site, which challenges are also set forth in these Rules and develop a solution for the challenge. To access the challenge and submit the solution, follow the steps below: 

• Obtain access to the submission portal. You must have a Devpost account to register for the Contest as they will administer the Contest. If you do not have a Devpost account already, you can sign up for a  Devpost account at no cost from aiinaction.devpost.com.

• Obtain access to Google Cloud developer tools. Access to Google Cloud may be obtained by (1) signing up for a no cost trial at https://cloud.google.com/free or (2) using an existing Google Cloud account for which you may request $50 in Google Cloud credits by completing this form: https://forms.gle/PYgY2chrFMb9uGPZ8. The credit should be approved within 1-5 business days of completing the form. Provision of credits to you is not guaranteed and at Google’s discretion. You are responsible for any and all fees accrued from use of Google Cloud developer tools if your use of these tools in connection with this Contest exceeds the $25 credit amount. When submitting information to request a credit, your data will be processed in accordance with the Google Privacy Policy at https://policies.google.com/privacy. Use of Google Cloud  Google Cloud developer tools will be subject to the license agreement applicable to the use of those services.  Entry in the Contest constitutes consent for the Sponsor and Devpost to collect and maintain an entrant’s personal information for the purpose of operating and publicizing the Contest. 

• Create a project in line with the Project Requirements below. Use Google Cloud service(s) to tackle a Google Cloud Partnerships challenge using the information provided in the repository to complete a Project that fits into that requirements set forth in the Project Requirements section below. 

• Submit Your project to the Contest Site. Make sure to complete and enter all of the required fields on the “Enter a Submission” or similar worded page of the Contest Site (each a “Submission”) during the Contest Period. 

7. SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS 

A. CHOOSE A CHALLENGE. Create a solution that addresses one of the following challenges provided by each Partner Entity (each a "Project") Your solution must use both Google Cloud products and the specific Partner's products (Elastic for the Elastic challenges and Fivetran for the Fivetran challenge) relevant to your chosen challenge: 

• Elastic Challenge: Build the Future of AI-Powered Search using Elastic’s hybrid search capabilities and seamless integration with Google Cloud’s generative AI tools to build a conversational and/or agent-based solution that transforms how people interact with data. 

• Deliver an intelligent, interactive, and context-aware solution that showcases how Elastic + Google Cloud can reimagine daily life activities or business processes through AI.

• Fivetran Challenge: Build your own custom data connector with the Fivetran Connector SDK, load that data into Google Cloud (BigQuery, Cloud Storage, or Cloud SQL) using Fivetran’s automated pipelines, and leverage Google Cloud AI services like Vertex AI or AgentSpace to develop an industry-focused AI application powered by your new dataset. 

• Showcase your technical creativity by connecting new data sources and transforming them into usable applications that drive better decisions, improve customer experiences, or boost operational efficiency.

• Solutions should be relevant to modern AI/data, including LLMs, agentic apps or workflows, RAG, automation, or augmented analytics.

B. ESSENTIAL COMPONENTS OF SUBMISSION. The Submission must conform to the following requirements (hereinafter, “Requirements”):

• Project Team: You may submit your Project as a team or on behalf of an organization. A Team must consist of only Eligible Individuals, have all team members added as members of the Project on Devpost, and is limited to a maximum of four (4) individuals. If a team or organization is entering the Submission, one individual must be appointed and authorized (the “Representative”) to represent, act, and enter the Submission, on the team’s behalf. By entering a Submission on behalf of a Team or Organization you represent and warrant that you are the Representative authorized to act on behalf of your Team or Organization.

• Functionality: For this hackathon, your project should be built using Google Cloud and the specific Partner products relevant to your chosen challenge (i.e., Elastic products for Elastic challenge, Fivetran products for Fivetran challenge). The use of other services that directly compete with Google Cloud (for cloud platform capabilities) or with the Partner whose challenge you've selected is not permitted.  The Project must be capable of being successfully installed and run consistently on the platform for which it is intended as described below, and must function as depicted in the video and/or expressed in the text description that you submit with the Project. 

• Platforms: A submitted Project must run on at least one of the following platforms: web, Android, or iOS. 

• New Projects Only: Projects must be newly created by the entrant during the Contest Period. The Project must be Your original creation not a modification or extension of Your or anyone else’s existing work.

• Third Party Integrations: If a Project integrates any third-party SDK, APIs,  data and/or any information belonging to a third party, Entrant must be authorized to use these third party tools and information in accordance with any terms and conditions or licensing requirements of the tool.

• Limitation on Artificial Intelligence Usage. Projects are required to utilize Google Cloud artificial intelligence tools, as detailed at https://cloud.google.com/terms/services (with examples including Gemini models via Vertex AI, BigQuery ML, and relevant APIs). You may also use the built-in AI-powered features within the specific Partner's products relevant to your chosen challenge. All other artificial intelligence tools are not permitted.

• What to Submit:

• Include a URL to the hosted Project for judging and testing.

• Include a text description that includes a summary of the Project’s features and functionality, technologies used, information about any other data sources used, and your findings and learnings as you worked through the project.

• Provide a URL to your code repository for judging and testing. The repository must contain all necessary source code, assets, and instructions required for the project to be functional. The repository must be public and open source by including an open source license file. This license should be detectable and visible at the top of the repository page (in the About section).

• Include a demonstration video of your Project. The video portion of the submission must meet the following criteria:

• Should include footage that shows the Project functioning on the platform(s) for which it was built.

• No parts of the submission can be  derogatory, offensive, threatening, defamatory, disparaging, libelous or contain any content that is inappropriate, indecent, sexual, profane, indecent, tortuous, slanderous, discriminatory in any way, or that promotes hatred or harm against any group or person, or otherwise does not comply with the theme and spirit of the Contest.

• No part of that submission contains content, material or any element that is unlawful, or otherwise in violation of or contrary to all applicable federal, state, or local laws and regulations in any country,  state or applicable territory where you created the video and in the United States.

• The Submission must not contain any content, material or element that displays any third party advertising, slogan, logo, trademark or otherwise indicates a sponsorship or endorsement by a third party, commercial entity or that is not within the spirit of the Contest, as determined by Sponsor, in its sole discretion.  

• The Submission must be an original, unpublished work that does not contain, incorporate or otherwise use any content, material or element that is owned by a third party or entity.

• It cannot contain any content, element, or material that violates a third party’s publicity, privacy or intellectual property rights.

• It should not be longer than 3 minutes.  If it is longer than 3 minutes, only the first 3 minutes will be evaluated.

• It must conform to the technical requirements set forth on the Contest site, including that the Submission must be uploaded to and made publicly visible on YouTube or Vimeo, and a link to the video must be provided on the Submission form on the Contest Site.

• It must be in English or include English subtitles. Written parts of entries must be in English to be eligible.  The Submission must, at a minimum, support English language use.

• Multiple Submissions. An individual may submit more than one Submission, however, each Submission must be unique and substantially different from each of the Entrant’s other Submissions, as determined by the Sponsor and Devpost in their sole discretion. In addition, as an individual, you may join more than one team or organization with a unique and substantially different Submission. If you are  part of a team or organization you may also enter the Contest on an individual basis with unique and substantially different Submissions. If you win more than one prize, Google may allocate the prize to the relevant winning challenge in its sole discretion. 

• Disqualifying Submissions. All entries must be received by 2:00 P.M. PT on October 24, 2025. Submissions received after this time will be disqualified. Entries are void if they are in whole or part illegible, incomplete, damaged, altered, counterfeit, obtained through fraud, or late. All entries will be deemed made by the authorized account holder of the email address registered with Devpost submitted at the time of entry. The potential winner may be required to show proof of being the authorized account holder for that email address. The "authorized account holder" is the natural person assigned to an email address by an Internet service provider, online service provider, or other organization responsible for assigning email address for the domain.

During the Judging Period, the Sponsor, its agents and/or the Judges (defined below) will be evaluating each Submission to ensure that it meets the Requirements.  The Sponsor reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to disqualify any Submission that does not meet the Requirements or to re-assign a submitted Submission from one Category to another. 

7. SUBMISSION MODIFICATIONS. Prior to the end of the Contest Period, you may save draft versions of your submission on Devpost to your portfolio before submitting the Submission materials to the Contest for evaluation. Once the Contest Period has ended, you may not make any changes or alterations to your Submission, but you may continue to update the Project in your Devpost portfolio. After the Contest Period, fully at their discretion, the Sponsor and Devpost may permit you to modify part of your Submission after the Contest Period for the purpose of adding, removing or replacing material that potentially infringes a third party mark or right, discloses personally identifiable information, or is otherwise inappropriate. The modified Submission must remain substantively the same as the original Submission with the only modification being what the Sponsor and Devpost permits.

8. JUDGING: Each entry will be judged by a panel of experts who are employees of Sponsor, Devpost and/or Partners (“Judges”).  On or about the period between October 24, 2025 through November 20, 2025, (“Judging Period”) the Submissions will be evaluated by the Judges in the following Stages.

Stage One: The first stage will determine via pass/fail whether the Submission meets a baseline level of viability, in that the Submission includes all Submission requirements, reasonably addresses a Challenge and reasonably applies both the required data provided by Partner and Google Cloud products.

Stage Two: All Submissions that pass Stage One will be evaluated in Stage Two based on the following equal weighted criteria:

• Technological Implementation

• Does the interaction with Google Cloud and Partner services demonstrate quality software development?

• Design

• Is the user experience and design of the project well thought out?

• Potential Impact

• How big of an impact could the project have on the target communities?

• Quality of the Idea

• How creative and unique is the project?

The highest-scoring Submissions for each Challenge will be selected as the potential winners. Ties will be broken by comparing scores on each criterion in the order listed, and if a tie remains, judges will vote. If a potential winner is disqualified, the Submission with the next highest score will become the potential winner.

On or about November 21, 2025, the potential winner(s) will be selected and may be notified by telephone and/or email, at Sponsor’s discretion for Winner Verification Requirement (as defined below). If a potential winner does not respond to the notification attempt within two business days from the notification attempt, then such potential winner will be disqualified and an alternate potential winner will be selected from among all eligible entries received based on the judging criteria described herein. With respect to notification by telephone, such notification will be deemed given when the potential winner engages in a live conversation with Sponsor or when a message is left on the potential winner’s voicemail service or answering machine by the Sponsor, whichever occurs first. Except where prohibited by law, each potential winner may be required to sign and return a Declaration of Eligibility and Liability and Publicity Release and provide any additional information that may be required by Sponsor.  If required, potential winners must return all such required documents within two days following attempted notification or such potential winner will be deemed to have forfeited the prize and another potential winner will be selected based on the judging criteria described herein. All notification requirements, as well as other requirements within these Rules, will be strictly enforced.

“Winner Verification Requirement” means THE AWARD OF A PRIZE TO A POTENTIAL WINNER IS SUBJECT TO VERIFICATION OF THE IDENTITY, QUALIFICATIONS AND ROLE OF THE POTENTIAL WINNER IN THE CREATION OF THE SUBMISSION. No Submission or individual shall be deemed a winning Submission or winner until their post-competition prize affidavits have been completed and verified, even if prospective winners have been announced verbally or on the competition website. The final decision to designate a winner shall be made by the Sponsor and/or Administrator.

A Submission can win a maximum of one prize. In the event that no entries are received for a Challenge, no prize will be awarded.  Determinations of judges are final and binding.

9. PRIZES:

C. Terms Applicable to All Prizes.  

1. Cash Prize Delivery: Cash Prizes will be payable to the winner, if an individual; to the winning team’s Representative, if a team; or to the organization, if the winning team is an Organization. It will be the responsibility of the winning team’s or organization’s Representative to allocate the Prize among their team or organization’s participating members, as the Representative deems appropriate. A monetary Prize will be mailed to the winner’s address (if an individual) or the Representative’s address (if a team or organization), or sent electronically to the winner,  winning teams Representative, or organization’s bank account, only after receipt of the completed winner affidavit and other required forms (collectively the “Required Forms”), if applicable. The deadline for returning the Required Forms to the Administrator is ten (10) business days after the Required Forms are sent. Failure to provide correct information on the Required Forms, or other correct information required for the delivery of a Prize, may result in delayed Prize delivery, disqualification of the individual, team or organization or forfeiture of a Prize. Prizes will be delivered within 60 days of the Sponsor or Devpost’s receipt of the completed Required Forms.

2. None of the non-prizes are redeemable for cash.  The approximate retail value (ARV) may be adjusted depending on the country, state or jurisdiction of residence of the winner. 

3. Odds of winning any prize depends on the number of eligible entries received during the Contest Period and the skill of the entrants.  No transfer, substitution or cash equivalent for prize(s) is allowed, except at Sponsor’s sole discretion. Sponsor reserves the right to substitute a prize, in whole or in part, of equal or greater monetary value if a prize cannot be awarded, in whole or in part, as described for any reason.  Value is subject to market conditions, which can fluctuate and any difference between actual market value and ARV will not be awarded. The prize(s) may be subject to restrictions and/or licenses and may require additional hardware, software, service, or maintenance to use. The winner shall bear all responsibility for use of the prize(s) in compliance with any conditions imposed by such manufacturer(s), and any additional costs associated with its use, service, or maintenance. Contest Entities have not made and Contest Entities are not responsible in any manner for any warranties, representations, or guarantees, express or implied, in fact or law, relating to the prize(s), regarding the use, value or enjoyment of the prize(s), including, without limitation, its quality, mechanical condition, merchantability, or fitness for a particular purpose, with the exception of any standard manufacturer's warranty that may apply to the prize(s) or any components thereto. 

10. FEES & TAXES: Winners (and in the case of team or organization, all participating members) are responsible for any fees associated with receiving or using a prize, including but not limited to, wiring fees or currency exchange fees. Winners (and in the case of team or organization, all participating members) are responsible for reporting and paying all applicable taxes in their jurisdiction of residence (federal, state/provincial/territorial and local). Winners may be required to provide certain information to facilitate receipt of the award, including completing and submitting any tax or other forms necessary for compliance with applicable withholding and reporting requirements. United States residents may be required to provide a completed form W-9 and residents of other countries may be required to provide a completed W-8BEN form. Winners are also responsible for complying with foreign exchange and banking regulations in their respective jurisdictions and reporting the receipt of the Prize to relevant government departments/agencies, if necessary. The Sponsor, Devpost, and/or Prize provider reserves the right to withhold a portion of the prize amount to comply with the tax laws of the United States or other Sponsor jurisdiction, or those of a winner’s jurisdiction.

11. GENERAL CONDITIONS:  All federal, state, provincial and local laws and regulations apply. Google reserves the right to disqualify any entrant from the Contest if, in Google’s sole discretion, it reasonably believes that the entrant has attempted to undermine the legitimate operation of the Contest by cheating, deception, or other unfair playing practices or annoys, abuses, threatens or harasses any other entrants, Google, or the Judges.  

12. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS: 

• By submitting a Submission in this Contest, the entrant hereby licenses and will license the Non-Proprietary Aspects (as defined below) of the Submission and the source code used to generate the Submission under an Open Source Initiative-approved license (see www.opensource.org) that in no event limits commercial use of such code or model containing or depending on such code. As defined above, “Non-Proprietary Aspects” means any Google products and services used to generate the Submission and other third party software that is commercially available software not owned by the submitter individual or organization used to generate the Submission.  

• To the extent your or your team or organization’s Submission makes use of generally commercially available software not owned by you or your team or organization that was used to generate the Submission, but that can be procured by Google or Partner without undue expense, you do not grant the license in the preceding sentence to that software. 

• As between Google and the entrant, the entrant retains ownership of all intellectual and industrial property rights (including moral rights) in and to any videos provided for the Contest. As a condition of entry, entrant grants Google, its subsidiaries, agents and Partners, a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license to use, reproduce, adapt, modify, publish, distribute, publicly perform, create a derivative work from, and publicly display such video(s) (1) for the purposes of allowing Google and its affiliates and the Judges to evaluate the video for purposes of the Contest, and (2) in connection with advertising and promotion via communication to the public or other groups, including, but not limited to, the right to make screenshots, animations and video clips available for promotional purposes.

13. PRIVACY: Participant acknowledges and agrees that Google may collect, store, share and otherwise use personally identifiable information provided during the registration process and the contest, including, but not limited to, name, mailing address, phone number, and email address. Google will use this information in accordance with its Privacy Policy (http://www.google.com/policies/privacy/), including for administering the contest and verifying Participant’s identity, postal address and telephone number in the event an entry qualifies for a prize. 

Participant’s information may also be transferred to countries outside the country of Participant's residence, including the United States.  Such other countries may not have privacy laws and regulations similar to those of the country of Participant's residence. Any personally identifiable information provided directly or indirectly to those Partners listed in Section 3 of these Official Rules during the registration process or contest, will be processed in accordance with each respective Partner’s Privacy Policy. 

If a participant does not provide the mandatory data required at registration, Google reserves the right to disqualify the entry. 

Participants have the right to request access, review, rectification or deletion of any personal data held by Google in connection with the Contest by writing to Google at this email address: googlecloudnexthackathon@google.com.

14.  PUBLICITY.  By accepting a prize, entrant agrees to Sponsor, Partners and their agencies use of his or her name and/or likeness and Submission for advertising and promotional purposes without additional compensation, unless prohibited by law.

15. WARRANTY, INDEMNITY AND RELEASE: Entrants warrant that their Submissions are their own original work and, as such, they are the sole and exclusive owner and rights holder of the submitted Submission and that they have the right to submit the Submission in the Contest and grant all required licenses, except that to the extent your or your team or organization’s Submission makes use of generally commercially available software not owned by you or your team or organization that was used to generate the Submission, but that can be procured by Google or Partners without undue expense, you do not grant the license in the preceding sentence to that software.  Each entrant agrees not to submit any Submission that (1) infringes any third party proprietary rights, intellectual property rights, industrial property rights, personal or moral rights or any other rights, including without limitation, copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret, privacy, publicity or confidentiality obligations; or (2) otherwise violates the applicable state or federal law. Each entrant further represents and warrants that it has the necessary rights and licenses to use any and all data used in or for the Submission and otherwise as necessary for the terms hereunder.To the maximum extent permitted by law, each entrant indemnifies and agrees to keep indemnified Contest Entities and Partners at all times from and against any liability, claims, demands, losses, damages, costs and expenses resulting from any act, default or omission of the entrant and/or a breach of any warranty set forth herein. To the maximum extent permitted by law, each entrant agrees to defend, indemnify and hold harmless the Contest Entities and Partners from and against any and all claims, actions, suits or proceedings, as well as any and all losses, liabilities, damages, costs and expenses (including reasonable attorneys fees) arising out of or accruing from (a) any Submission or other material uploaded or otherwise provided by the entrant that infringes any copyright, trademark, trade secret, trade dress, patent or other intellectual property right of any person or defames any person or modifies their rights of publicity or privacy, except that entrant is not responsible for the data provided by Partners for use in the Project, (b) any misrepresentation made by the entrant in connection with the Contest; (c) any non-compliance by the entrant with these Rules; (d) claims brought by persons or entities other than the parties to these Rules arising from or related to the entrant’s involvement with the Contest; and (e) acceptance, possession, misuse or use of any prize or participation in any Contest-related activity or participation in this Contest.

Entrant releases Google and Partners from any liability associated with: (a) any malfunction or other problem with the Contest Site; (b) any error in the collection, processing, or retention of entry information; or (c) any typographical or other error in the printing, offering or announcement of any prize or winners.

16. ELIMINATION: Any false information provided within the context of the Contest by any entrant concerning identity, mailing address, telephone number, email address, ownership of right or non-compliance with these Rules or the like may result in the immediate elimination of the entrant from the Contest.

17. INTERNET: Contest Entities are not responsible for any malfunction of the entire Contest Site or any late, lost, damaged, misdirected, incomplete, illegible, undeliverable, or destroyed Submissions or entry materials due to system errors, failed, incomplete or garbled computer or other telecommunication transmission malfunctions, hardware or software failures of any kind, lost or unavailable network connections, typographical or system/human errors and failures, technical malfunction(s) of any telephone network or lines, cable connections, satellite transmissions, servers or providers, or computer equipment, traffic congestion on the Internet or at the Contest Site, or any combination thereof, including other telecommunication, cable, digital or satellite malfunctions which may limit an entrant’s ability to participate.

18.  RIGHT TO CANCEL, MODIFY OR DISQUALIFY.  If for any reason the Contest is not capable of running as planned, including infection by computer virus, bugs, tampering, unauthorized intervention, fraud, technical failures, or any other causes which corrupt or affect the administration, security, fairness, integrity, or proper conduct of the Contest, Google reserves the right at its sole discretion to cancel, terminate, modify or suspend the Contest. Google further reserves the right to disqualify any entrant who tampers with the submission process or any other part of the Contest or Contest Site.  Any attempt by an entrant to deliberately damage any web site, including the Contest Site, or undermine the legitimate operation of the Contest is a violation of criminal and civil laws and should such an attempt be made, Google reserves the right to seek damages from any such entrant to the fullest extent of the applicable law.

19. NOT AN OFFER OR CONTRACT OF EMPLOYMENT: Under no circumstances shall the submission of a Submission into the Contest, the awarding of a prize, or anything in these Rules be construed as an offer or contract of employment with either Google, or the Contest Entities. You acknowledge that you have submitted your Submission voluntarily and not in confidence or in trust. You acknowledge that no confidential, fiduciary, agency or other relationship or implied-in-fact contract now exists between you and Google or the Contest Entities and that no such relationship is established by your submission of a Submission under these Rules.

20. FORUM AND RECOURSE TO JUDICIAL PROCEDURES: These Rules shall be governed by, subject to, and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of California, United States of America, excluding all conflict of law rules. If any provision(s) of these Rules are held to be invalid or unenforceable, all remaining provisions hereof will remain in full force and effect. To the extent permitted by law, the rights to litigate, seek injunctive relief or make any other recourse to judicial or any other procedure in case of disputes or claims resulting from or in connection with this Contest are hereby excluded, and all Participants expressly waive any and all such rights.

21. ARBITRATION: By entering the Contest, you agree that exclusive jurisdiction for any dispute, claim, or demand related in any way to the Contest will be decided by binding arbitration. All disputes between you and Google of whatsoever kind or nature arising out of these Rules, shall be submitted to Judicial Arbitration and Mediation Services, Inc. (“JAMS”) for binding arbitration under its rules then in effect in the San Jose, California, USA area, before one arbitrator to be mutually agreed upon by both parties. The parties agree to share equally in the arbitration costs incurred.

22. WINNER’S LIST: You may request a list of winners after November 26, 2025 but before February 4, 2026 by sending a self addressed stamped envelope to:  

Google LLC

1600 Amphitheater Parkway Mountain View, CA 94043 USA

(Residents of Vermont need not supply postage).

23. Additional Terms

Please review the Devpost Terms of Service at https://info.devpost.com/terms for additional rules that apply to your participation in the Contest and more generally your use of the Contest Site. Such Terms of Service are incorporated by reference into these Official Rules, including that the term "Poster" in the Terms of Service shall mean the same as "Sponsor" in these Official Rules." If there is a conflict between the Terms of Service and these Official Rules, these Official Rules shall control with respect to this Contest only.

24. Entrant’s Personal Information

Information collected from entrants is subject to Devpost’s Privacy Policy, which is available at https://info.devpost.com/privacy.

For questions, send an email to support@devpost.com.