Opportunity brief
Welcome to The Arcticathon by Bidaya!
- A solo online hackathon where you'll take an idea from a blank screen to a working, deployed website all on your own.
About The Arcticathon:
- The Arcticathon is a student-focused online hackathon by Bidaya, built around the theme of the Arctic.
- You can create almost anything that runs in a browser: a web app, interactive experience, game, tool, or something completely different. Your project should connect meaningfully to the Arctic theme and showcase your creativity, technical skills, and problem-solving.
- This is a solo-only hackathon. You'll be the designer, developer, and project manager of your own project.
What You Need to Build:
Requirements:
- Make at least three pages that link to each other
- Make a nested route
- Use at least 5 components
- One of those components should accept children
- One of those components should accept props
- Have a nested component
- Create a component that fetches and displays data from an API (e.g. JSONPlaceholder)
- Log 3 hours using hackatime
- Note: Your submission needs to be meaningful (eg. a portfolio, or a website showcasing your favourite artists) and also use relevant APIs (eg. using a Dummy posts API for a blog page instead of using a lorem ipsum API).
️ Important Rules:
- AI tools are not allowed. This includes AI code generation, AI design tools, AI writing tools, and AI coding assistants. AI usage can make your project ineligible for prizes.
- Your work must be your own. Plagiarism, copying another participant's project, or misrepresenting authorship will result in disqualification.
- To be eligible for prizes, participants must also log at least 3 hours of coding time through Hackatime.
How Projects Are Judged:
Projects will be reviewed based on:
- Creativity
- Technical execution
- How well the project connects to the Arctic theme
Every submission will be reviewed by the judging team.
Submission:
Before the deadline, participants must submit:
- A live link to their website
- Their public GitHub repository
- An optional 60-second video explaining their project
- The submission deadline is strict, so make sure your project is deployed and submitted on time.
Build solo. Explore the Arctic. Ship something real.