Dates

Registration Period:  Prior to Sunday, May 18th, 2025 Eastern Time

Submission Period: Friday, May 16th, 2025 (04:00 PM Eastern Time) – Sunday, May 18th, 2025 (03:00 PM Eastern Time)

Judging Period: Sunday, May 18th, 2025 (03:00 PM Eastern Time) – Friday, May 23rd 2025 (11:59 PM Eastern Time) (May be subject to change)

Winners Announced: Monday, May 26th, 2025 (May be subject to change)

 

Eligibility

You must be a high school student enrolled at The Academy for Innovative Education or an approved middle school student enrolled at The Academy for Innovative Education (approval must be granted prior to the start of the event). Your submission must be submitted within the submission period to be counted. 

 

Project and Submission Requirements

  • Your project must be entirely created by your team within the duration of the event. Submissions must be the original work of the team, be solely owned by the team, and not violate the Intellectual Property rights of any other person or entity.
  • Your project must be accesible to the judges to test and view. The judges should not have to pay to access your submission and should not be restricted in anyway. If a submission is hosted on a site/service that requires a login, a login should be provided for judges to use.
  • Any physical project must be available to present physical access to judges upon request.
  • Judges are not required to test the project and may choose to judge based solely on the text description, images, video, and code file provided in the submission.
  • Your entry may NOT contain, as determined by the hosting organization and Devpost in our sole and absolute discretion, any content that is obscene or offensive, violent, defamatory, disparaging or illegal, or that promotes alcohol, illegal drugs, tobacco or a particular political agenda, or that communicates messages that may reflect negatively on the goodwill of the hosting organization or Devpost.

Prizes

Prizes are listed in the prizes section of the event site.

Judging Criteria

Judging criteria is listed on the site and will not change. If text is ever updated on the event site, there are no modifications to how projects will be judged, just an updated display of text containing clarifications or rewordings.