Mission Brief // 01
Live brief / prizes
FamHack takes the usual hackathon format and makes it all about family: a live brief, a deadline, demos, food, prizes, and enough side challenges to keep the whole team in the game.
You show up with your academic family and tackle the day as a team. Some people will code, some will prototype, some will crack clues, and some will handle demos and team strategy.
On the day
Entry Protocol // 02
Free entry / code based
FamHack registration is simple on purpose. Use your university email, choose whether you are joining as a parent or a child, and sort the family structure after that instead of before.
Go to the registration page and sign in with your university email. From there you can choose whether you are joining as a parent or a child.
Parents can create the family first. Children and other parents can then join using the family code or join link.
If you do not have your family sorted yet, register anyway. If you do not have a family yet, register anyway too. We will sort you out before the event.
Signal Lock // 03
Brief release / later
The exact track pages stay sealed until closer to the hackathon. What is already confirmed: one main build brief, a family scavenger hunt, and extra side challenges with their own prize routes.
Signal Locked
This is the headline challenge for families who want the full build-and-demo experience. The exact brief is being saved, but it will still reward coding, design, planning, and presenting rather than just one narrow skill.
Confirmed
Clues, puzzles, and side quests are part of the day on purpose so mixed-skill families have another route to stay fully involved.
Confirmed
Expect side objectives, surprise twists, and more than one prize path by the end of the event.
The whole event is built around academic families rather than random teams thrown together at the door.
You do not need prior hackathon experience to take part, but the day still comes with live judging, prizes, and proper challenge routes.
Build, solve, present, or chase side challenges. The tracks are meant to create options, not funnel everyone into one lane.
Event Clock // 04
The exact timings are still being finalised, but the shape of the day is already set: arrive, brief, build, chase clues, eat pizza, show the work, then finish on prizes.
Final timings will be confirmed closer to Saturday, 28 March 2026.
09:30
Arrive, meet people, get settled, and make sure your family is ready to go.
10:00
We open the day, explain the format, and set up the challenge energy properly.
10:30
Build, plan, prototype, or start chasing clues depending on how your family wants to play it.
13:00
Food lands, teams regroup, and the scavenger-hunt side of the day stays lively.
16:30
Wrap up the build, prepare your demo, and make sure your team can show what it made.
17:30
Demos, judging, celebration, and the final prize drop at the end of the event.
Support Desk // 05
Questions about teams, format, costs, and what to expect on the day. If anything is still unclear, organisers will be around to help.
FamHack is a one-day hackathon where academic families spend the day building, solving, and showing what they made at the end. It keeps the full hackathon structure, but builds the teams around academic families.
Use the registration page with your university email. Parents can create the family first, and children or other parents can then join with the family code or join link.
FamHack is free to enter for participants.
Your academic family is the natural team. Smaller groups are completely fine, and larger families can split across different activities if that works better for them.
Yes. If that works best for your team, different people can focus on different parts of the day, from the main build to side challenges, as long as your family stays coordinated.
Register anyway. You do not need to have everything sorted before signing up, and we can help people connect with their family or work out the setup before the event starts.
FamHack is aimed at first-year Informatics students and their academic parents. If eligibility changes or expands, the organisers will announce it clearly.
No. You do not need previous hackathon experience to take part. Teams can contribute through coding, design, clue-solving, planning, and presenting.
Everyone is expected to be respectful, inclusive, and safe to work with. The event code is available in the Code of Conduct.
Ask organisers during the day. If your team gets stuck technically or just is not sure what to do next, the event staff are there to help you keep moving.
See you soon at FamHack.
