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Every Kind of Event, in Its Own Words

Pick the type and IdeaScore uses your words, your template and the right ways to judge.

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The new programme window, where the kind of event sets its words and switches on features such as Pitch day, Interviews and Mentors.
Name the programme and say what kind of event it is; the right features switch on.

Find Your Kind of Event

Each family has its own page, with a section for every type: who it is for, the words it uses, how it is judged and what is set up for you.

Something else. Choose Something else and you start from a blank programme with IdeaScore's usual words and features, then rename the people and things to suit your event.

The Words Change with the Type

Pick the type and every screen says team or nominee, judge or juror, project or memorial, and tables use its own terms, such as Track, Level of study, Award category or Language of argument.

Choose the event typeThe words and the suggested features follow the type. Rename any word later.

Family

Event type

Choose the start-ups to back, from first application to final decision.
Meridian Seed Fund 2026 · Cohort IIIStart-up programme

Menu

  • Dashboard
  • Submissions
  • Teams
  • Evaluators
  • Leaderboard
  • Pitch day
  • Interviews
  • Registration form
  • Cohorts
  • Mentors
  • Portfolio
  • Committee

Teams126

3 evaluators per team
Teams in Meridian Seed Fund 2026 · Cohort III
TeamApplicationScore
Aranya Agritech12 Sep46.5
Kestrel Mobility13 Sep44.0
Lumen Diagnostics15 SepLate41.5

In a start-up programme, teams send applications and evaluators score them.

More on start-up programmes

Suggested for Start-up programme

6 on
  • Pitch day
    Switched off by you
  • Interviews
    Switched off by you
  • Committee
    Switched off by you
  • Cohorts
    Switched off by you
  • Mentors
    Switched off by you
  • Portfolio
    Switched off by you

A feature switched off leaves the menu. Nothing in it is deleted.

Words from the product's own settings. Change the type while the programme is a draft; rename the words at any time.

What Every Event Gets

The parts that switch on with the type, ready for any event that needs them.

Teams

Teams that form themselves

Team sizes, a lock date and a finder for people without a team. Email addresses are never shown.

  • Invitations last 7 days and work only for the address they were sent to
  • Solo registrations can be merged into a team, and unmerged
  • After the lock, only organisers change teams
HackDeccan's Team Formation page: 51 teams, 157 people on teams, and the team policy settings.
Team sizes, when teams form and lock, and a finder for people without a team.
Schedule and checkpoints

Ask every team for the same things by a date

Ask for a repository, demo video, deck or file by a date, and see who has sent what.

  • A late period of up to 7 days, with late work marked
  • Repository links checked: public, private or not found
  • In a blind round, repository links and file names stay hidden

Build checkpoint

Due 15 Oct, 23:59 · late period 2 days

TeamRepoVideoDeck
  • Halcyon Grid#0142PublicSentSent
  • Quorum Bio#0127PublicLateSent
  • Farmlight#0139PublicSentMissing
  • Tessel Labs#0118PublicSentSent

2 of 4 teams complete · repositories checked on GitHub

Judging modes

Judge each round the way it should be judged

Rubric, ranking, head-to-head, live pitch or a public vote, chosen per round.

  • Head-to-head is fair once every entry has been compared five times
  • A public vote, available once your organisation turns it on
  • Prediction contests scored automatically
Seed Fund 2026 · Cohort III

How this round is judged

Edit round · Semi-final

Fixed once rankings, comparisons or votes exist.

Tracks, prizes and the public event page

One page to share for the whole event

Tracks, prizes, problem statements, announcements and results on one shareable page.

  • Eligibility rules checked when someone registers or joins a team
  • Up to five community links
  • The agenda as a calendar file anyone can download

Meridian Research Park

Meridian Climate Hack 2026

24 Jul to 15 Oct 2026 · Registration open

Tracks

Clean energyWaterAgriculture

Prizes

  • Grand prize
  • Runner-up
  • Best water project

Problem statement

Forecast rooftop solar output for a neighbourhood grid

Statement 3 appears on 1 Aug

Announcement

The final demo order is on the agenda.

Add the agenda to your calendar · community links

Certificates

Certificates anyone can verify

Ten designs in your colour, each with a QR code anyone can verify. Revocable.

  • Each programme starts with the design that suits its type
  • Design with IdeaScore AI drafts one design per kind
  • Certificates already issued keep the design they were made with
The Certificates page with a Certificate of Participation previewed beside its design settings.
Templates, your colour, your words and signatures, with a live preview.
IdeaScore AI

Set it all up from your handbook

IdeaScore AI suggests the type and drafts the form, rubric, rounds and letters.

  • Six types first, the rest one click away
  • Or say it in your own words
  • Nothing is created until you confirm
IdeaScore AI set-up asking What kind of programme is it? with Start-up programme suggested, then Hackathon, Grant or fellowship, Open innovation challenge, Business plan or case competition and Awards, and a link to show 9 more types.
IdeaScore AI set-up offers every programme type, six first with the suggestion marked, and the rest one click away.

Running One Event? Start Free.

Run your first event free on Starter. Professional covers more.Run your first event free on Starter, start to finish. For more rounds, a pitch-day final or several events a year, Professional covers 5 programmes a year.

See every plan

  • Starter

    Free

    no card needed

    Programmes
    1
    Entries each
    100
    Evaluators
    3
    IdeaScore AI credits, once
    150

  • Professional

    ₹3,99,999

    a year, before GST

    Programmes
    5
    Entries each
    2,000
    Evaluators
    25
    IdeaScore AI credits a year
    25,000

Rather we ran it with you?Run it with our team

Everything Else That Comes with It

  • Templates for every type

    A complete form, rubric, dated rounds, letters and email sequence to start from.

  • Announcements

    News to everyone taking part, on every type of event.

  • Contest leaderboard

    Upload predictions, scored automatically; a public leaderboard and a private one you reveal.

  • Public vote

    Let the public vote for entries, available once your organisation turns it on.

  • Pitch day

    Schedule the day, score live, and put the projector board and audience link on screen.

  • Programme emails

    Receipts, reminders and results go out on schedule.

  • Your own words

    Rename the entry, submission, participant, evaluator and event to suit you.

  • Features you choose

    Switch any feature the type turned on off again, or turn on one it did not.

Questions About Event Types

Two things: the words people see (a hackathon has teams, judges and projects; a grant has proposals and reviewers; awards have nominees and jurors) and the features the programme shows, such as team formation for a hackathon or the contest leaderboard for a machine learning contest.
Yes, while the programme is a draft. Change it in Programme Settings, under Event type. Once the first application arrives the type is fixed, but you can still rename the people and things it uses.
Yes. Rename the entry, submission, participant, evaluator and event in Programme Settings, even after applications have arrived.
Choose Something else to start from a blank programme with IdeaScore's usual words and features, then rename them to suit your event.
Yes. Your first event can run free on Starter: one programme in total, up to 100 entries and 3 evaluators, in a single round. For more rounds, a pitch-day final or several events a year, see the yearly plans on the pricing page, or let our team run the event with you through IdeaScore Programmes.

See Your Kind of Event Set Up in IdeaScore

A 30-minute walkthrough with a product specialist, using your event's type, words and rounds.

Book a demoStart a 7-day trial

Find Your Kind of Event

Each family has its own page, with a section for every type.

Programmes

Choose the teams and proposals to back, from first application to final decision.

See programmes

Something else. Choose Something else and you start from a blank programme with IdeaScore's usual words and features, then rename the people and things to suit your event.

The Words Change with the Type

Pick the type and every screen says team or nominee, judge or juror, project or memorial.

  • Start-up programmeDefault
    Entry
    team
    Submission
    application
    Participant
    applicant
    Evaluator
    evaluator
    Event
    programme
  • Hackathon
    Entry
    team
    Submission
    project
    Participant
    participant
    Evaluator
    judge
    Event
    hackathon
  • Grant or fellowship
    Entry
    proposal
    Submission
    application
    Participant
    applicant
    Evaluator
    reviewer
    Event
    call
  • Awards
    Entry
    nominee
    Submission
    nomination
    Participant
    nominee
    Evaluator
    juror
    Event
    awards programme
  • Design competition
    Entry
    entry
    Submission
    design
    Participant
    participant
    Evaluator
    juror
    Event
    competition
  • Moot court
    Entry
    team
    Submission
    memorial
    Participant
    participant
    Evaluator
    judge
    Event
    moot
  • Coding contest
    Entry
    entry
    Submission
    submission
    Participant
    contestant
    Evaluator
    judge
    Event
    contest
  • Open innovation
    Entry
    start-up
    Submission
    proposal
    Participant
    applicant
    Evaluator
    evaluator
    Event
    challenge

Words from the product's own settings. Change the type while the programme is a draft; rename the words at any time.

What Every Event Gets

Teams that form themselves

Team sizes, a lock date and a finder for people without a team. Email addresses are never shown.

  • Invitations last 7 days and work only for the address they were sent to
  • Solo registrations can be merged into a team, and unmerged
HackDeccan's Team Formation page: 51 teams, 157 people on teams, and the team policy settings.
Team sizes, when teams form and lock, and a finder for people without a team.
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