Summer of CodeFest '25

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🚀 Hackathon & Ideathon Overview

🎭 Themes

Explore and innovate across exciting domains:

• 🤖 AI → AI for Fun, AI agents
• 📱 Full Stack / Product / App Development → Hack the College Life, Gamify Experiences
• 📢 Social Media → meme and pop culture tech, Anti-social media/ social media prevention/ healthy social media

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🔄 Event Flow

📅 Day 1 — Ideathon & Seminar

🎤 Seminar (1 Hour)

A kickoff session to inspire and set the stage for the competition.

💡 Ideathon

1. Ideation (90 min) – Brainstorm, refine, and structure ideas.
2. Presentation & Judging (120 min) – Showcase ideas to a panel of judges.

📅 Day 2 — Hackathon

1. Recap / Initialization (15 min) – Quick briefing on the day ahead.
2. Hackathon Begins
   • Project Development (3 hrs) – Two stages (40%, then 50-60% elemination).
   • Deployment (1 hr) – Final touches and preparing for launch.
   • Judging (30-60 min) – Evaluation of completed projects.

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🏆 Judging Criteria

📌 Ideathon

• Scoring – Based on simplicity and effectiveness of ideas.

📌 Hackathon

• Innovation & Creativity – How unique and original is the solution?
• Presentation – Clarity, structure, and engagement.
• Impact Potential – How useful and impactful is the project?
• Feasibility – Can this be realistically built and deployed?
• Implementation – Code quality, functionality, and completeness.

Results

Winners are:

• 1st Position: CodeSmokers (see the project here and ppt here)
• 2nd Position: VOID (see the project here and ppt here)
• 3rd Position: Runtime Terror (see the project here and ppt here)

See the results here:

• LinkedIn
• Instagram