Q. What is the Hackathon about?

The International Women’s Hackathon 2017 is an initiative to inspire and celebrate women who love to code. We want to encourage all women in technology to come and code, and showcase their coding prowess.

Q. What are the dates and timings of the Hackathon?

The hackathon will start at 12:00 P.M. IST on 8th Mar 2017 and Ends at 11:00 P.M. IST on 12th Mar 2017.

Q. What are the prizes for the Hackathon?

The winner gets a gift voucher of USD 2,200. The first runner up gets a gift voucher of USD 1,500 and the second runner up gets a gift voucher of USD 1,000.

Q. Where do I have to come for the Hackathon?

The International Women’s Hackathon 2017 is an online event on the platform and hence you can participate in the event from the comfort of your home or office or any other place that has a good internet connection.

Q. Do I need to have any specific qualifications to be a participant for the Hackathon?

If you are a woman who loves to code, you are more than welcome to participate in the International Women’s Day Hackathon. Please note that the contest is not open to programmers of opposite gender.

Q. Do I have to participate alone or can it be a team?

You will have to participate individually as IWH 2017 does not allow team participation.

Q. Is there a sample hackathon that I can participate in?

Yes, there is a sample challenge in which you can participate to understand how to participate in programming challenges on . The challenge contains detailed information on how programming questions are to be attempted and what are the details about judge.

Q. Will I get the result of the hackathon?

This challenge has a public leaderboard, we publish that on the challenge page after the challenge starts and is updated real time. You can view your ranking on the same. For other challenges, you might be contacted later by the participating company.

Q. Where is the hackathon happening?

The challenge is completely online. After the start date/time, you can open this same page and start participating in the challenge.

Q. How do I participate in the hackathon?

To participate in the challenge, visit this page after start date/time and click on 'Participate in Challenge' button.

Q. What am I supposed to do in the hackathon?

You are supposed to solve the hackathon questions where you will have multiple programming problems.

Programming Problems: You are supposed to write code in the online code editor associated with each programming problem and submit the solution.

Q. Do I need to pay any money to register for the Hackathon?

No. You do not have to pay anything to anyone to register yourself for any Hackathon on .