You should read the full orientation hackathon rules after your kickoff. Below is a summary of the highlights:

• Team Size: Fellows will break up into teams of 3-4 within their Pod. Your mentor will help you do this later in the call.
• Timeline: Each team has between the end of the call and the start of demos on Friday to create their project submission.
• Project Requirements:
• Fellows must use at least one of the Pod’s Open Source technologies in their project. If they use more than one of the technologies, your mentor will  award you “bonus points” during judging on Friday.
• The project must be “Open Sourced” (i.e. made available on GitHub with an Open Source license) at the end of the hackathon. 
• You’ll also be evaluated for your use of Git and GitHub “Best Practices” while collaborating on the project. This includes using branches, pull requests, reviewing each other’s code, writing a comprehensive README, & using issues to track tasks. 

• Demos:
• On Friday, both of your mentor’s Pods will come together to demo their projects to each other, your mentor, and any outside visitors or judges your mentor chooses to invite. Each team will have 5-10 minutes to present and demo their project on Zoom. Each Pod will have a winning team selected that is entered into the global hackathon finals. 
• We’ll be awarding prizes for the top 3 projects globally (there will be one project from each Pod entered into the submissions). The top 3 teams will each win a special prize announced on Friday. The 1st place team’s entire Pod, not just the team that made the project, will also receive a special prize.
• We will share information about how to submit and demo your project on Wednesday, but you’ll need to share a GitHub repo and video demo of the project in addition to the live demo that fellows will do on Friday.