• Participants must be eligible high school or college/university students under the eligibility requirements listed for the event.
• Participants may compete individually or as part of a team of up to 3 people.
• Ideas must be developed during the official ideathon submission period.
• Each submission should address a real-world problem and meaningfully incorporate science or technology.
• Submissions must fall under or reasonably relate to at least one official track.
• Coding and functional prototypes are optional and are not required for judging.
• Participants must clearly credit any external research, datasets, images, tools, AI systems, or other resources used in developing their submission.
• Plagiarism or presenting another person's existing work as your own may result in disqualification.
• Submissions must comply with Devpost's Community Guidelines and Terms of Service.
• CyberSyntax Hub reserves the right to remove submissions that are inappropriate, fraudulent, copied, or otherwise violate event rules.
• Decisions made by the judging team are final.
• AI tools may be used as a supporting resource, but they should not generate the majority of a participant’s submission. Participants are expected to contribute the core problem analysis, solution concept, reasoning, and presentation themselves. Submissions that are primarily AI-generated with little evidence of original student thinking may be disqualified. Any meaningful use of AI tools must be disclosed.