{"id":203,"date":"2026-01-01T00:00:26","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T00:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/hackacon\/?page_id=203"},"modified":"2026-05-27T16:46:29","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T16:46:29","slug":"prizes","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/hackacon\/challenge\/prizes\/","title":{"rendered":"The Prizes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are awarding two categories of prize: <strong>Highest Ranked<\/strong>\u00a0and <strong>Special Category<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h1>Highest Ranked Prizes<\/h1>\n<p>Highest Ranked Prizes will be awarded to the <strong>top five submissions<\/strong> that achieve the highest overall score. See <a href=\"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/hackacon\/challenge\/criteria\/\">The Criteria<\/a> for more on how we will be scoring submission. Each prize will consist of:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>An Amazon voucher<\/strong> (sent by email). The prize values will be published shortly<\/li>\n<li><strong>A goodie bag including a FACTOR Challenge Coin<\/strong> (sent by post &#8211; anonymous participants are welcome to decline this option)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1>Special Category Prizes<\/h1>\n<p>There will be five Special Category prizes. The first Special Category Prize will awarded to the highest ranked submission from a school. (Yes, it is extremely possible for a school to win both a Highest Ranked Prize <em>and <\/em>a Special Category Prize!) The remaining Special Category Prizes will be awarded to <strong>four notable submissions<\/strong> that did not score highly enough overall to receive a Highest Ranked Prize. As this suggests, these categories are not set, but will emerge during judging.<\/p>\n<p>The prizes will consist of:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>An Amazon voucher<\/strong> (sent by email). The prize values will be published shortly<\/li>\n<li><strong>A goodie bag including a FACTOR Challenge Coin<\/strong> (sent by post &#8211; anonymous participants are welcome to decline this option)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are awarding two categories of prize: Highest Ranked\u00a0and Special Category. Highest Ranked Prizes Highest Ranked Prizes will be awarded to the top five submissions that achieve the highest overall score. See The Criteria for more on how we will be scoring submission. Each prize will consist of: An Amazon voucher (sent by email). The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":0,"parent":31,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-203","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/hackacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/hackacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/hackacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/hackacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/hackacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/hackacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":221,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/hackacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/203\/revisions\/221"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/hackacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/31"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/hackacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}