1. Be nice to each other and have fun. 
2. It is recommended for the team to made up of 3-5 members. 
3. All design elements, code, hardware builds, etc. for your project must be created during the event. Third party tools and frameworks are allowed as well as your normal tooling (Gulp, Yeoman, Composer, NPM, Bower, etc.). While you may not begin coding in advance, you can plan and discuss with your team in advance. Written documents and design sketches are allowed.  You may also incorporate pre-existing material that is freely available to the public into your project, such as public domain images, Creative Commons music, open source libraries, existing APIs and platforms, and the like. 
4. Projects submitted to nbc.devpost.com will be utilised as demo to a panel of judges. Each demo will consist of 5 minutes to present the project and a live demo. Followed by maximum of 5 minutes of Q and A from judges. 
5. Git is a must. You can use, Github, Bitbucket, or Gitlab as long as you post your public repo via the submission portal. You own the rights to all your work in the hackathon.