Hackathon events are run frequently by high schools, colleges, and corporations in order to utilize a competitive environment to inspire rapid product ideation and development within a community. However, since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, many hackathon events have moved to an online environment, creating widespread issues of fraudulent, stolen, or reused projects being submitted to events seeking to exploit their monetary or in-kind rewards. “Yeti” is a proposed software suite designed to be utilized by hackathon event organizers to reduce the risk of fraudulent work by tracking competitor submissions end-to-end, from initial creation to final submission with intermediate checkpoints. In this paper, the requirements, development, and testing of an early Yeti proof of concept is proposed in detail to serve as a basis for the eventual production of Yeti as a commercial software product.

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Creator

• Goto, Kendall

Subject

• Computing
• Innovation
• Project-Based Learning
• Industry

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• E-project-041223-164716
• 103161

Palavra-chave

• plagiarism detection
• pattern matching
• software development
• code analysis
• hackathon competitions

Advisor

• Weinstock, Jonathan

Year

• 2023

Date created

• 2023-04-12

Resource type

• Major Qualifying Project

Major

• Computer Science

Source

• E-project-041223-164716

Rights statement

• In Copyright

Última modificação

• 2024-09-09