Eligibility: Highschool & Post-secondary Students !
Team Rules
All members of your team must be accepted and registered as DDC x Ignition Hacks participants.
Teams may have <= 4 members, all of whom must be present in person at the event.
You may not be a part of more than one team.
Each team can only submit one project.
Project Requirements
You must submit your project at ddc-x-ignition-hacks.devpost.com before 5:00 PM EDT on April 4, 2026 to be eligible to demo your project.
You may and are recommended to install any necessary software in advance.
You may plan your project out in advance.
You may 3D-print parts or prepare other structural components for hardware projects in advance.
You may not assemble hardware projects in advance.
You may gather a data set to train a model in an AI project in advance.
You may not train a model on data for an AI project in advance.
Plagiarism is not tolerated and any teams with plagiarized work will be disqualified.
You may use any publicly available libraries/packages/design assets.
Please code with integrity! Final interpretation of these rules (including all rules on this page) is at the sole discretion of the Organizers, and potential violations will be dealt with on a case-by-case basis.
