The Met Office and the organisers are keen to ensure that the teams’ hard work during the hackathon doesn’t just disappear after the event, never to be seen again. To that end, we’re asking every team to produce some kind of output that can be stored on the hackathon website for anyone to look at and possibly reuse. This might take the form of code, a report, or a visualisation - it depends on the project. At the end of the hackathon, all teams should submit their project outputs to the organisers by 1pm on Friday June 4th.

On Friday afternoon, each team will give a five-minute presentation explaining the outputs from their project (this can be submitted as a pre-recorded video if you prefer, although please make sure someone from the team attends the presentation session to answer any questions from the judges!)

The judges will evaluate each team based on the following five criteria:

Quality of the project output

  • did the team deploy the projections in a scientifically valid way?
  • is the project output easy to understand for other users? (eg. is code clearly commented? Are visualisations labelled and captioned so that anyone can understand what they show?)

Quality of the presentation

  • does the presentation clearly explain the question posed, the results of the project, and how the two are related?
  • is the presentation easy to follow? (remember: you’re presenting to a mixture of disciplines and levels)

Novelty

  • did the team combine data or methods in interesting ways?
  • did the team investigate beyond the short question posed in the project brief?

Interdisciplinary insights

  • did the team combine expertise from different subject areas to gain new insights?
  • have the team members learned anything from each other?

Teamwork

Each team will be visited at least once by one of the judges during the hackathon. The main purpose of this visit will be to check that all teams are able to make progress and to give an opportunity to ask for help and guidance. We shall also be checking that all participants enjoying what they’re working on. This criteria not penalise groups asking for help, but rather will assess:

  • did all team members contribute to the project?
  • if any problems arose, how were they resolved?