{"id":342,"date":"2026-06-22T00:00:29","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T00:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/hackacon\/?p=342"},"modified":"2026-06-21T10:09:53","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T10:09:53","slug":"data-release-countdown-10-days-to-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/hackacon\/2026\/06\/22\/data-release-countdown-10-days-to-go\/","title":{"rendered":"Data release countdown: 10 days to go"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are just\u00a0<strong>ten days left<\/strong> until the reference samples are released. A quick reminder that you need to <a href=\"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/hackacon\/register\">register<\/a>\u00a0and <strong>allow us the option to email you<\/strong>. (If we can&#8217;t do that, we can&#8217;t tell you where the samples are!)<\/p>\n<p>On Wed 01st Jul, you&#8217;ll receive an email with a link and a password to access the reference samples. From there you can download them and get to work.<\/p>\n<h1>Prizes update<\/h1>\n<p>In case you&#8217;ve missed it, we now have a <a href=\"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/hackacon\/challenge\/prizes\/\">prize haul<\/a> worth over \u00a34,000. This includes Amazon vouchers, challenge coins, prize bags, and certificates.<\/p>\n<p>There are two <a href=\"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/hackacon\/scoreboard\/\">Scoreboards<\/a>: <strong>Highest Ranked Prizes<\/strong> will be awarded to the\u00a0<strong>top twenty submissions<\/strong> that achieve the highest overall score. Meanwhile, there will be five<strong> Special Category Prizes<\/strong>. The first Special Category Prize will awarded to the highest ranked submission from a school. (For our purposes, a school is defined in accordance with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.legislation.gov.uk\/ukpga\/1997\/44\/part\/VIII\/crossheading\/definition-of-school\">Education Act 1997<\/a>. The individual submitting must use their school email address and be aged 18 or over.) That makes it entirely plausible for a school to win both a Highest Ranked Prize <em>and\u00a0<\/em>a Special Category Prize! The remaining Special Category Prizes will be awarded to\u00a0<strong>four notable submissions<\/strong> that did not score highly enough overall to receive a Highest Ranked Prize, but that are otherwise worthy of recognition in some way. As this suggests, these four prizes are not set, but will emerge during judging.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to know how we will score submissions, see <a href=\"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/hackacon\/challenge\/criteria\/\">The Criteria<\/a> for more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are just\u00a0ten days left until the reference samples are released. A quick reminder that you need to register\u00a0and allow us the option to email you. (If we can&#8217;t do that, we can&#8217;t tell you where the samples are!) On Wed 01st Jul, you&#8217;ll receive an email with a link and a password to access [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/hackacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/hackacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/hackacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=342"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/hackacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":346,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/hackacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342\/revisions\/346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/hackacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/hackacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/hackacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}