RESPECT EVERYONE

• Treat participants, mentors, judges, sponsors, staff, and guests with respect.
• No harassment, bullying, intimidation, discrimination, threats, or personal attacks.
• Keep language, jokes, images, usernames, projects, and presentations appropriate for a school event.

COMPETE FAIRLY

• Build during the event window unless organizers explicitly allow prebuilt materials.
• Credit any libraries, templates, assets, datasets, AI tools, or outside code used in your project.
• Do not copy another team's work, submit someone else's project, or interfere with another team's progress.

TEAM RULES

• Teams may contain up to four members.
• All team members must be eligible LCPS students and must be registered for IndyHAX.
• Team changes require organizer approval before judging begins.

CTF SAFETY

• Only attack, scan, or exploit systems that are part of the official IndyHAX CTF environment.
• Do not target school networks, personal devices, public websites, accounts, or infrastructure.
• Do not share flags, answers, exploits, or challenge solutions with other teams.

AI AND TOOLS

• AI tools are allowed when they support learning, building, debugging, or design.
• Teams remain responsible for understanding and explaining what they submit.
• Generated code, text, images, or ideas should be disclosed during judging when relevant.

EVENT EXPECTATIONS

• Follow Independence High School and LCPS rules at all times.
• Respect the venue, equipment, classrooms, common areas, and event schedule.
• Organizer decisions on eligibility, conduct, scoring, submissions, and prizes are final.