Guidelines

Pre-Hackathon

Participation in the Hackathon

  1. Any student who currently studies at either Technion - Israel Institute of Technology or Technion International program.
  2. An online registration process will enable candidate registration.
  3. The BME-Hack Committee is permitted, at its discretion, to ask for additional information from the candidates in the process of their evaluation, such as online interviews, information in writing, etc.

The challenges:

  1. The challenges, on which the teams will work, will be offered by the participants in their registration process. The BME Hack committee may allow adding challenges from additional sources.    
  2. The challenge must be in a medical or health-related field.
  3. The BME-Hack Committee may interact with the candidate to guide him/her to improve the challenge presented and change or tune its focus before its publication.
  4. The candidate should validate that no good solutions currently exist for the challenge according to the publicly available information.
  5. The challenge and the suggested solution cannot be based on work developed or in development by one of the team members in any organized form (e.g., within the framework of an engineering project, an advanced degree such as a Thesis Ph.D., other Hackathon event, etc.). It should be noted, that in an event of such a violation, a team will lose its ability to participate in the competition.
  6. The decision of the BME-Hack Committee to disregard a challenge is not open to appeal and the committee is not required to provide a reason for its decision.
  7. The participants will grade all proposed challenges based on clinical and commercial value as well as their interest to take part in a team working on their solutions. The challenges with the highest votes will be selected for the Hackathon.
  8. The BME-Hack Committee will form teams with an effort to assign each participant to a challenge that he graded with a high score.
  9. Each team will consist of up to 6 participants. 2 students in each team will be from the Technion Biomedical Engineering Faculty, providing sufficient registration of suitable candidates. An effort will be made to create multi-national and multi-disciplinary teams.

13. Pre-Hackathon lectures (Monday, 17  March 2025)

14. Pre-Hackathon lectures (Monday, 24  March 2025)

15. Hackathon days timeline (Thursday-Friday, 3-4 April 2025)

Competition

16. Judgement

  • Selection of the winners and rankings will take place at the end of the team presentations.
  • Every group which will be prepared, will present their presentation in a final public event that will include the hackathon participants and at least 3 judges.
  • Judges will consist of leading professionals from relevant fields (e.g. entrepreneurship, biomedical industry, medicine, and academics).
  • The criteria for selecting the competition winners are as follows: clear need, quality of the technological solution, commercial value, and project presentation.

17. Prizes

The winning teams will receive prizes as will be published on the website near the time of the BME-Hack event. In the event of equal scores for two or more of the teams, the head of the organizing committee is permitted to decide how to split the prizes among the winning teams.

18. Intellectual Property

  • The BME-Hack is a learning event and therefore all intellectual property rights from the implementation of the ideas generated to address a specific challenge and produced by the participants belong to the participants who produced them.
  • To enable future development of the solutions, each participant may individually further develop any solution proposed in the framework of the Hackathon and presented in the competition without any obligations to his/her team members.
  • The participants will not have any claim on the Technion or the BME-Hack organizers regarding responsibility or connected to the intellectual property which was developed in the framework of or following the BME-Hack.

19. Disagreement

In every disagreement or criticism by one of the participants against the BME-Hack, the head of the BME-Hack committee is exclusively given the final ruling, and his/her ruling is not open to appeal and obligates both the faculty of biomedical engineering and the participants.