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CI Schedule

Join Code Institute's Hackathon for an immersive week of coding and collaboration! The event revolves around a central theme, unveiled during the introductory webinar.

Participants follow a structured schedule spanning seven days, involving team assignments, project setup, planning, and continuous deployment.

The week culminates in a final project submission and winners' announcement. Judging criteria are revealed during the introductory webinar, adding an element of suspense to this dynamic and innovative coding experience.

The typical event format is as follows:

Event Format

Theme: [NAME OF THE EVENT]

  • More details will be announced during the introductory webinar.

  • Schedule: All times are in BST (Irish/UK time)

First Day

  • 17:00: Register for the Intro Webinar Here (which kicks off the event).
  • Teams will be assigned immediately after the Intro Webinar and announced in the Slack channel.
  • Create your team Slack channel and connect with your Team Facilitator.

Second & Third Day

  • Set up your team page in the Hackathon app, project board, workspaces, etc.
  • Plan your project, project management, and dividing up of tasks.
  • Recommended first deployment on Friday.

Forth and Fith Day

  • Each team member dedicates a minimum of 3-5 hours per day to working in sprints on solo tasks, chatting with, connecting and working together as a team.
  • Continuous deployment.

Sixth Day

  • Final touches to project.
  • Update Hackathon App team page (team name, project name, banner, logo, description, etc.).
  • Final deployment.
  • Submit project & add details to team page.
  • 3pm sharp: Project Submission Deadline - no further commits or changes to projects.
  • Register for the Project Presentations Webinar Here @ 17:00: At least one member per team to join and present.

Seventh Day

  • Winners Announcement
  • Winners will be announced at 4 pm on Slack.

Judging Criteria

  • To be revealed at the Intro webinar