How to announce winners and share feedback

After all scores are in, you're ready to wrap up the hackathon, announce your winners, and provide valuable feedback to participants.

Step 1: End the judging period

1. Go to the main Judging feature.
2. Ensure all judges submitted their scores.
3. Click the End Judging Round button.
4. When prompted, select End Judging & Select Winners to finalize all scores.

Step 2: Select and announce winners

After you end the judging period, you can assign the awards you created.

1. Go to the Winners screen within the Results area.

2. For each award, click the dropdown menu under "Winner." Projects are listed starting with the highest average scores.

   

3. Select the project you want to assign to that award.
4. After you assign all the awards, you can either:

• Save your choices: Keep the winners saved as a draft if you're not ready to announce them.
• Announce winners: Publish the results immediately.

After you announce, a Winners Gallery automatically appears on your hackathon's homepage.

Step 3: Share feedback with submitters (Optional)

You can share judges' scores and comments with project teams to help them learn and improve.

1. Go to the Judges feedback section.
2. Choose what you want to share:

• Round score: The project's average score for that round.
• Individual judge feedback: The specific comments left by judges.

3. You can also choose to anonymize the feedback, so judge names are not revealed.

4. Click Share feedback. The selected information appears on the submitters' project pages, and they receive an email notification.