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Manager   •   almost 10 years ago

Judging Criteria Discussion Thread

Howdy IoT hackers - I thought I would start a discussion thread on the judgement criteria for the hackathon. I wrote up the criteria myself, in response to some prior feedback we had received requesting more defined criteria. I'm wondering if anyone has any thoughts / change requests to what is written?

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  • Manager   •   almost 10 years ago

    Any takers? Any ideas?

  • Manager   •   almost 10 years ago

    Here's what I wrote thus far: "Criteria for judging for the event are based upon novelty and practicality of the concept, as well as "impressiveness of completion," which basically is a score based upon how far you got during the day."

    Any thoughts on that?

  • Manager   •   almost 10 years ago

    Here's a further writeup of the judgement criteria... Novelty
    How new is the concept?
    Practicality
    How practical is the concept in normal life, art, industry or otherwise? How much does it fit its function?
    Impressiveness of Completion
    How far did you get during the day? If you started from complete scratch and ended up building something, you did great!

  • Manager   •   almost 10 years ago

    Good points and good question. I think what idea of we could do is have a bunch of, "score sheets," which we hand out to the voting public coming in the door. Each of the three criterion (or however many get settled upon before the event) could be weighted in different ways. If you wanted to really give weight to, "Completion According to Scope," you could do that. Each weighted scoring category could have a name associated with it, as well as detailed explanation. Ultimately we want to make it easy for people to understand...and I guess the plan now is to have people drop tickets into buckets, just as we have done previously, in a, "showcase fashion." But if we made some easy to ready score sheets, with simple math, and very few criteria, people can probably, "intuit," that math in their head before they drop their ticket in. Otherwise what we have done in the past has pretty much just everyone comes with their own criteria in mind - which probably just slants toward whoever shows up and what their pre-concieved notions of a hackathon may be.

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