Marking

Tutors are tasked with overseeing the progress of their assigned groups throughout the challenge. While tutors should encourage their students to progress in the challenge tasks, the assessment of each group's completion of the challenge will not solely depend on the number of tasks they finish. Instead, tutors will need to see achievement across 5 key elements. Tutors should look for evidence of these elements as they monitor the groups. By the end of the day, it is expected that all or nearly all groups will have demonstrated these five elements:

Five Key Elements for Completion

• Teamwork
  • Each team member explains a part of the project during the presentation.
  • Each team member contributes code or project elements that are integrated into the final project.
• Creativity
  • Come up with a unique feature
• Learning
  • Learn and implement something that was not known before the hackathon.
• Persistence
  • Overcome a significant bug or issue in their project.
• Feedback Implementation
  • Respond to tutor feedback.

Recognition and Awards

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1. Completion Prize

At the end of the hackathon, tutors are responsible for reviewing the performance of their assigned groups based on the five key elements of the challenge. They should inform each group whether they have successfully "completed" the challenge by achieving all five elements. Successful groups should receive acknowledgment and small prizes/certificates to celebrate their accomplishment.

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2. Category Excellence Prize

In addition to recognising completion, tutors have the opportunity to grant special awards for exceptional performance in any of the categories, such as the “teamwork award” or the “creativity award”. These awards should highlight outstanding contributions that exceed the basic requirements of the challenge.

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3. Main Prize: Putting forward a team

Along with awarding the teams they are responsible for, tutors may submit their team for consideration for the main awards before the end of the event. These will recognise either outstanding achievement on the technical level, outstanding creativity or outstanding progress from a group who are very new to coding.

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