Presentation
The structured demo segment in which a team surfaces its work to judges. NASA Space Apps weights presentation as one of five equally-rated criteria; the practitioner literature treats demo craft as part of the work rather than as an addition to it.
Presentation is the structured demo segment of a hackathon in which a team surfaces its work to judges. NASA Space Apps weights presentation as one of five equally-rated criteria (Impact, Creativity, Validity, Relevance, Storytelling), each rated on the same scale and contributing equally to the project's overall score. The practitioner literature — Audrey Jia Chen, Nick Singh, Sze Yu Sim — treats demo craft as part of the work rather than as an addition to it, and the failure mode the literature documents most directly is the wasted-time pattern in which teams spend their judging window listing the technologies they used rather than letting judges interact with the project itself. See storytelling-is-not-optional, science-fair-judging, and demo-bias.