We're always taking precautions to prevent the spread of COVID-19. We will be regularly cleaning work surfaces, encouraging face masks and checking for vaccination/negative test on the door.

Hackathons are programming competitions where people work together to make something cool over the course of a weekend.

Nope!

Although being a computer scientist and/or knowing how to code helps, it's not required.

£0 and your weekend!

Royal Hackaway is free to attend, thanks to all the support provided from our sponsors!

All code is owned by you and your team members!
We recommend putting your project on GitHub, and making it open source.

You can leave during the event, but please check-in/out with our entry staff by presenting them the barcode found in your event card in your lanyard.

We do this for fire safety and accountability reasons.

Absolutely not!

While you can explore ideas, you cannot start implementing your project before the specified time.

If you don't have a team in mind before you come, you can make a team with anyone after the opening ceremonies, so no pressure!

Just note that team sizes are limited to a maximum of 4 (four) hackers per team.

Anyone 18+ who is either a current university student or has graduated in the past six months.

We respect your privacy - You can opt out of being photographed by asking one of our committee members for an "opt-out" lanyard, to let us know that you do not wish to be photographed.

We'll try to do the following:

1. Avoid taking photographs of people who have opted-out
2. Delete photographs of those who have opted-out
3. Triple check for people who have opted-out before publishing photographs

If you are from the future 👋👋 and have still found yourself in a photograph, let us know at [email protected]