Code of Conduct

• ▸No harassment of any kind, in person or online. This includes offensive comments, unwelcome attention, intimidation, and photographing people without their consent.
• ▸No alcohol in the venue unless it is served at an official event moment with the venue's permission. No drugs. Anyone who appears intoxicated will be asked to leave.
• ▸Respect the venue. Eagle Labs is a working space — leave it as you found it.
• ▸Anyone breaking this code may be asked to leave and their team may be disqualified. The organisers decide.

• ▸Current university students only. You must be 18 or over on 16 October 2026 and able to show student ID at registration.
• ▸Organisers, volunteers, mentors and judges cannot compete or win prizes.
• ▸Teams are two to five people, all registered and physically present. No solo entries.
• ▸No project work before hacking opens on Friday evening. Ideas are fine; code is not.
• ▸Open-source libraries, frameworks, templates and AI code-generation tools are allowed and encouraged. Say in your README what was generated and what you wrote. A thin reskin of an existing AI tool will not be judged as your work.
• ▸Publishing your own pre-written code as open source just so you can use it at the event is against the spirit of the rules and is not allowed.
• ▸Do not scrape personal data, use real customer data, or upload partner data to a public repository. Do not connect an agent to your real email, calendar or bank — use the sandbox accounts provided.
• ▸Plagiarism, misrepresenting what was built or by whom, breaking this code, or submitting the same project to another hackathon will get you disqualified.

If you see or experience something that is not right, tell the code of conduct contact. Their name and number are on the back of every badge and at the registration desk. Reports are heard in private, written down, and you are told what happens next.

The contact and the event lead decide together within the hour what to do: a conversation, a warning, removal from the event, or contacting the university or the police. Your name is not shared with the person you reported without your agreement.

• ▸The quiet room is open all weekend, no questions asked — for a break, a call home, prayer, or just silence.
• ▸Nobody has to stay. If you need to leave, tell the registration desk so we know you are safe, and go.
• ▸If you or a teammate are struggling — not just tired, struggling — tell a volunteer or the welfare volunteer in the quiet room. We would rather know.
• ▸The University of Southampton student wellbeing service is listed in the confirmation email, and any organiser will help you find the right contact.

Questions about this code go to aisoc@soton.ac.uk.