Rules

Winners must be Harlem Week Hackathon participants.

All ideas for this hackathon must be original -- please do some product validation by looking up your ideas and making sure that they do not already exist.

No remote submissions will be accepted.

All participants must present at the end of the day!

Silicon Harlem Hackathon Official Rules – (the “Official Rules”) 

NO PURCHASE OR PAYMENT NECESSARY. A PURCHASE OR PAYMENT OF ANY KIND WILL NOT INCREASE YOUR CHANCES OF WINNING.  

Challenge Name: Harlem Week Hackathon (the “Challenge”)

Challenge Website: http://harlemhack.challengepost.com/ (the “Challenge Website”)

Silicon Harlem (“Silicon Harlem”), 46 W. 116th St., New York, NY 10026.

DATES AND TIMING

Challenge Submission Period: August 8, 2015 (1:00pm Eastern Time) – August 8, 2015 (3:30pm Eastern Time) (the “Challenge Submission Period”)

Judging Period: August 8, 2015 (3:30pm Eastern Time) – August 8, 2015 (5:00pm Eastern Time) (the “Judging Period”)

Winners Announced: On or around August 8, 2015 (5:00pm Eastern Time) 

Silicon Harlem will be the official timekeeper for the Challenge.

PRIZES

Winner

Prize 

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Applicable Judging Criteria

 

 

 

 
 

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

8. VERIFICATION OF POTENTIAL WINNERS

A. Verification Requirement: THE AWARD OF A PRIZE TO A POTENTIAL WINNER IS SUBJECT TO VERIFICATION OF THE IDENTITY, QUALIFICATIONS AND ROLE OF THE POTENTIAL WINNER IN THE CREATION OF THE SUBMISSION. The final decision to designate a winner shall be made by Silicn Harlem. If a potential winner is a minor in their jurisdiction of residence, the potential winner may be required to have a parent or legal guardian accept the prize on their behalf.

Required Forms: Potential winners will be notified using the email address associated with the ChallengePost account used to enter the Submission (the submitter is the “Representative” in the case of a team, Organization, or Large Organization). In order to receive a Prize, the potential winner (including all participating team members in the case of a team or Organization) will be required to sign and return to ChallengePost, affidavit(s) of eligibility (or a similar verification document) and liability/publicity release(s), and any applicable tax forms (“Required Forms”). Minor will be required to have a parent or legal guardian complete and sign the Required Forms on their behalf.

Deadline for Returning Required Forms: ten (10) business days after the Required Forms are sent.

Disqualification: The ChallengePost may deem a potential winner (or participating team members) ineligible to win if: 

(i) the potential winner’s Representative or any participating member does not respond to multiple emails or fails to sign and return the Required Forms by the deadline listed above, or responds and rejects the Prize;  

(ii) the Prize or Prize notification is returned as undeliverable; or  

(iii) the Submission or the potential winner, or any member of a potential winner’s team, Organization, or Large Organization, is disqualified for any other reason. 

In the event of a disqualification, the ChallengePost may award the applicable Prize to an alternate potential winner.

PRIZE DISTRIBUTION

Substitutions & Changes: ChallengePost has the right to make a Prize substitution of equivalent or greater value. ChallengePost will not award a Prize if there are no eligible Submissions entered in the Challenge, or if there are no eligible Makers or Submissions for a specific Prize.

Prize Delivery: A monetary Prize will be mailed to the winning Maker’s address (if an individual) or the Representative’s address (if a team or Organization) after receipt of the Required Forms. Prizes will be payable to the Maker, if an individual, to the Maker’s Representative, if a team, or to the Organization, if the Maker is an Organization. If the Maker is a minor in their jurisdiction of residence, the Prize may be payable to the Maker’s parent or legal guardian. It will be the responsibility of the winning Maker’s Representative to allocate the Prize among their team or Organization’s participating members, as the Representative deems appropriate.

Prize Delivery Timeframe: Within 45 days of the ChallengePost’s receipt of the Required Forms.

Taxes: Winners (and in the case of team or Organization, all participating members) are responsible for reporting and paying all applicable taxes in their jurisdiction of residence (federal, state/provincial/territorial and local). Winners may be required to provide certain information to facilitate receipt of the award, including completing and submitting any tax or other forms necessary for compliance with applicable withholding and reporting requirements. United States residents are required to provide a completed form W-9 and residents of other countries are required to provide a completed W-8BEN form. Winners are also responsible for complying with foreign exchange and banking regulations in their respective jurisdictions and reporting the receipt of the Prize to relevant government departments/agencies, if necessary. CHALLENGEPOST, and/or Prize provider reserve the right to withhold a portion of the prize amount to comply with the tax laws of the United States, or those of a winner’s jurisdiction.

ADDITIONAL TERMS THAT ARE PART OF THE OFFICIAL RULES

Please review the ChallengePost Terms of Service at http://challengepost.com/terms for additional rules that apply to your participation in the Challenge and more generally your use of the Challenge Website. Such Terms of Service are incorporated by reference into these Official Rules. If there is a conflict between the Terms of Service and these Official Rules, the latter terms shall control with respect to this Challenge only.

Participation in the Challenge constitutes Maker’s full and unconditional agreement to these Official Rules. By entering, a Maker agrees that all decisions related to the Challenge that are made pursuant to these Official Rules are final and binding, and that all such decisions are at the sole discretion of ChallengePost.

ChallengePost collects personal information from you when you enter the Challenge. The information collected is subject to the privacy policy located here: http://ChallengePost.com/privacy.

CONTACT

If you have any questions or comment, or wish to send us any notice regarding this Challenge, please email us at info@siliconharlem.net.