1. Do I need to pay any money to register for the Hackathon? No. There is no cost to register for any Hackathon on HackerEarth.

2. Do I need to have any specific qualifications to be a participant for the Hackathon?

Please note below eligibility requirements for participation in the Citizens Hackathon:

• Participants must be undergraduate college students in their sophomore, junior or senior year attending a 4-year U.S.-based college or university.
• Participants must register using their college/university email address.
• Participants must have permanent authorization to work in the U.S.
• Teams of up to 2 are allowed.

1. How do I submit what I have made for the Hackathon? You have to develop the application on your local system and submit it on HackerEarth in tar/zip file format along with instructions to run the application and source code.

2. Do we need to have the entire idea fully working? Not for phase 1. However, Finalists in phase 2 will need to submit a working prototype and the code.

3. How is the environment? Will your environment support any language? Will you provide any IDE and DB for us to work on ideas? You have to develop the entire software application on your local system and submit it on HackerEarth in tar/zip file format along with instructions to run the application and source code.

4. Does one have to be online and available for the entire duration of the Hackathon? No, one does not need to be logged in on HackerEarth or be online for the entire duration. You can develop the application on your local system based on the given themes and then submit it on HackerEarth, on the specific challenge page.

5. Since there is no specific technology mentioned, are there any restrictions on using number of pre-built libraries? While Java, Python, C, and C++ are preferred languages, there are no specific requirements around language, technology stack, or libraries. You can use any of them to create the web/mobile application.

6. Do I need to give a demo for the product that I have built? In addition to the prototype, please also include a brief video or PPT slides demonstrating your web/mobile application.

7. A fully developed application need to have a solid backend for data storage like SQL, SharePoint etc. since its online, is it accepted to show only the prototype of it? A working prototype is required for phase 2 submissions. If you use any database like MySQL or PostgresSQL, you can also submit a database dump along with your submission.

8. If it is a team submission, does that mean all team members will have access to work at the same time? Yes, all team members can login from their account and complete application submission on HackerEarth.

9. Who will own the IP(Intellectual Property) Rights to the product that I have built? The developer/developers of the web/mobile application will have all rights and own the IP of the product. However, all code needs to be in public domain (open source) so that it can be evaluated by the judges.