Submission and evaluation

At Hack for Earth, we tend to use the same platform for submitting and evaluating the solutions of hacker teams, even though this is not strictly necessary. When we started out making hackathons, we asked the teams to send in their solutions over email, and then we made an Excel spreadsheet for the jury to mark their scores in! Those were exciting times, and although it probably still works well for smaller hackathons (fewer than 20 teams), most of the time you’d need to have some better structure to the process to make it more clear to everyone involved how solutions will be made, submitted, and scored and what is required to win. There are several hackathon platforms on the market, and all of them have their respective pros and cons. At Hack for Earth, we have tested a lot of them, and we choose the platform according to our needs for the hackathon at hand – different hackathons need different hackathon submission platforms. We will delve deeper...