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Hesburgh Libraries Hackathon 2025

Presentations

Presentation Format

Unless approved by the event administrators (typically for medical reasons), all presentations must be delivered in person. Teams will have no longer than 5 minutes to present their project. Judges may or may not ask questions following each presentation.

There is no required format for the presentation. However, we recommend that your team consider using 1-2 slides to organize the main information about your project to introduce it and then move right into the demo. The most important thing is to help our panel of judges evaluate (and remember!) your contribution. Make sure you've shared these:

  • Team Name — Have you introduced yourselves?
  • Project Title — Have you clearly stated the project name? 
  • Project Description — Have you given a succinct but clear description of the project and its value to users? 
  • Innovation & Impact — What is the value proposition of your hack? How is better than other similar products, for example? How will your hack positively change or improve the delivery of information, the acquisition of services, etc.?
  • Technical Merit — Have you described the technical aspects of your hack? What does it do and how does it work? What languages, frameworks, and libraries have you used in building it?
  • Demo — This is probably the most important aspect of your presentation. Have you demonstrated how your hack works? 
  • Future Opportunities — It might be interesting to briefly mention it if you have plans to take the project forward.

Advice on Giving Presentations

Example Slide

Although you are not required to use any slides, or to structure your presentation in a specific way, using at least a single attention-getting slide can help the judges focus on the details of your presentation AND help you get to your demo much faster. We offer the following template as an example of how you might approach designing your slides.

 

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Hackathon Teams & Projects

Teams will present their projects in the following order: