Official Rules

Entry Period. August 27, 2026 at 9:00 AM Central Time through September 18, 2026 at 11:59 PM Central Time (the “Entry Period”). Entries not complete and received within the Entry Period will not be considered.

Judging Period. September 21, 2026 through September 23, 2026. Sponsor may review Entries as they are received.

Demo Day and winner announcement. On or about September 25, 2026. Announcement of a potential winner is not an award; no Entrant is a winner until verified under Section 8.4.

Nerdy LLC, 8001 Forsyth Boulevard, Suite 1050, St. Louis, Missouri 63105 (“Sponsor,” “Nerdy,” “we” or “us”). Sponsor administers the Challenge. Employment with company, if offered, or a consulting arrangement, if offered, would be with a Nerdy affiliate or related entity and is governed by that affiliate or related entity’s own process and documents, not by these Official Rules.

Who may enter. The Challenge is open to natural persons who, as of the start of the Entry Period, are (a) at least eighteen (18) years of age and at least the age of majority in their jurisdiction of residence, and (b) legal residents of the United States (the fifty states and the District of Columbia, excluding American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands), Argentina, Colombia, Costa Rica, or India (each an “Eligible Jurisdiction”).

Individual entries only. Entries are accepted from individuals only. Prizes are awarded and payable to one natural person. Entrants who collaborated with others must comply with Section 7.7(a).

Who may not enter. The Challenge is not open to:

employees, officers, directors, members, managers, agents, or representatives of Sponsor or any of its parents, subsidiaries or affiliates;

any individual engaged by Sponsor or any of its parents, subsidiaries, or affiliates under an active Contract for Consulting Services (for example, engineering, design, etc.) other than the delivery of tutoring or instruction through the Nerdy platform or marketplace;

any individual involved in the design, administration, promotion, judging or fulfillment of the Challenge, and any Judge;

any member of the immediate family or household of a person described in (a), (b), or (c). Immediate family means spouse, domestic partner, parent, stepparent, legal guardian, child, stepchild, sibling, stepsibling, grandparent, grandchild or in-law. Household means any person sharing the same residence for at least three months of the year, whether or not related;

residents of any jurisdiction subject to comprehensive sanctions administered by the U.S. Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control, or any jurisdiction in which the Challenge or the award of a prize is restricted or prohibited; and

any person whose participation would, in Sponsor’s sole discretion, create an actual or apparent conflict of interest.

No conflicting obligations. You represent that your participation in the Challenge, and the representations you make in Section 7, will not violate any agreement to which you are a party and that no such agreement limits your ability to participate or to make those grants.

No preferential support. An Entry may not be, or be derived from, work developed with the direct or indirect benefit of funding, investment, contract, commercial license, or other preferential support from Sponsor at any time before the close of the Entry Period.

Verification. Sponsor may verify eligibility at any time and may require proof in any form it specifies. Sponsor may disqualify any Entry or Entrant that does not satisfy these Official Rules.

How to enter. During the Entry Period, complete and submit the form at hackathon.nerdy.com, including your name, email address, a description of what you built, and a demonstration video. Submission of the form, with the required elements below, constitutes an “Entry.”

Required elements. Each Entry must include:

a working product or experience whose purpose is to help a person learn. The prompts on the Challenge page are examples, not requirements;

a written description of what the Entry does, how it was built, and what you would do next to make it operational;

a demonstration video, not longer than three minutes, showing the Entry functioning. Judges are not required to watch beyond three minutes. The video must be provided as a link on a generally accessible platform, or uploaded through the form; and

the disclosures required by Section 7.6.

Optional elements. You may also provide a link to your source code, a link to a live deployment, and supporting files, which would likely help the Judges further evaluate the Entry but are not required.

New or substantially updated work. An Entry must be created during the Entry Period or, if it existed to some degree beforehand, must have been substantially developed during the Entry Period. You must describe what was developed during the Entry Period.

Language. All Entry materials must be in English, or accompanied by an English translation of the video, description, and any instructions.

Access for evaluation. You must keep the Entry available to Sponsor free of charge and without restriction, for evaluation and testing, until the end of the Judging Period.

AI assistance permitted. Building with generative AI assistance is expressly permitted and encouraged, subject to the disclosure required by Section 7.6. What you submit must be work you directed and can explain.

Prohibited content. An Entry must not contain or perform any of the things described in Sections 7.7(e) through 7.7(h), and must not contain unlawful, defamatory, harassing, obscene or sexually explicit material, or material inappropriate in an educational context. Sponsor may disqualify, remove or restrict access to any Entry that violates this Section.

One Entry per person. You may submit one Entry. If you submit more than once, Sponsor will consider your most recent Entry received before the close of the Entry Period and disregard the others.

Consent record. When you submit, Sponsor records the version of these Official Rules displayed to you, and the date and time of your agreement. That record is evidence of the terms you accepted.

Before the close. You may revise your Entry at any time before the Entry Period closes, subject to Section 4.9.

After the close. Once the Entry Period closes, you may not change your Entry. Sponsor may permit a narrow modification solely to remove material that infringes a third-party right, exposes personal information, or is otherwise inappropriate; any such modified Entry must remain substantively the same.

Judges. Entries will be evaluated by a panel of judges selected by Sponsor (“Judges”). Judges may be employees, officers, or contractors of Sponsor, or third parties; may or may not be identified on the Challenge website; and may be added, removed, or replaced before or during the Judging Period.

Human evaluation. All evaluation and all prize determinations are made by the Judges, all of whom will be humans. Sponsor does not use any automated or AI-assisted system to score or rank Entries, and does not analyze the face, voice, or any other biometric characteristic of any Entrant.

Threshold review. Each Entry is first assessed on whether it satisfies Section 4 and is not disqualified under these Official Rules. Entries that do not pass do not advance and are not eligible for a prize.

Evaluation. Entries that pass threshold review are evaluated by the Judges and winners are selected in the Judges’ sole and absolute discretion. Sponsor is not obligated to apply any particular criteria or methodology and may consider any factor it considers relevant to the purposes of the Challenge. Sponsor may maintain internal evaluation guidance, which it may change at any time but is not obligated to publish it.

No obligation to test. Judges are not required to install, execute, or test any Entry, and may evaluate on the basis of the description, video, repository, and accompanying materials alone.

Finality. Decisions of the Judges are final and binding in all matters relating to the Challenge, including interpretation of these Official Rules. You release Sponsor, the Judges, and the Released Parties from all liability arising from any judging, scoring, or decision.

No award required. Sponsor is not obligated to award any prize if no eligible Entries are received or if, in Sponsor’s judgment, no Entry is of sufficient merit. Sponsor may award fewer prizes than described in Section 8, including no prizes at all.

Relationship to hiring. Scoring and prize selection under this Section are separate from, and do not determine, any hiring decision. See Section 11.

Assignment. In consideration of Sponsor’s administration of the Challenge, your opportunity to be awarded a prize, and Sponsor’s review of your Entry, you hereby irrevocably assign, transfer, and convey to Sponsor, effective upon submission and without further action by either party, all right, title, and interest worldwide in and to your Entry and all elements of it, including all copyrights, patents and patentable subject matter, trade secrets, database rights, and all other intellectual property and proprietary rights, together with all rights to sue for and recover damages for past, present, and future infringement, and all rights to apply for, prosecute, register, maintain, and enforce those rights in any jurisdiction. You hereby grant Sponsor the right to register any part of the Entry in its own name.

License back to you. Sponsor grants you a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive, license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, create derivative works of, distribute, publicly display and perform, and publish your Entry for any non-commercial purpose. You may continue to develop it, present it as a portfolio work without notice to or consent from Sponsor and without accounting to Sponsor. This license survives termination of the Challenge and any disqualification.

Fallback license. If the assignment in Section 7.1 is held ineffective, invalid, or unenforceable in whole or in part, or is not permitted under the law of any applicable jurisdiction, then in place of the assignment and to the maximum extent that law permits you grant Sponsor an exclusive, or if an exclusive grant is not permitted, a non-exclusive, perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, fully paid, transferable and sublicensable license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, create derivative works of, distribute, publicly display and perform, make, have made, sell, offer for sale, import, and otherwise exploit the Entry for any purpose, including incorporation into Sponsor’s products and services.

Further assurances. You agree, promptly on request and without further consideration, to execute such assignments, declarations, and other instruments as Sponsor reasonably requires to evidence, perfect, register, or enforce the rights assigned. As a condition of Entry, you agreed to execute a confirmatory assignment in the form Sponsor provides, including any and all assignments obtained by You from anyone with whom you worked on the Entry, if any. Sponsor may also require a confirmatory assignment before incorporating any Entry into a Sponsor product or service.

Moral rights. To the fullest extent permitted by law you waive and agree never to assert any moral rights, droit moral, or rights of integrity or attribution in your Entry. Where such rights cannot be waived, you covenant not to assert them against Sponsor or its successors, assigns, licensees, or sublicensees, and consent to any modification, adaptation, or editing of the Entry that would otherwise infringe them.

Third-party, open-source and AI-generated material. You must identify in the submission form all third-party materials incorporated in or required by your Entry, including open-source components and their licenses, third-party APIs, datasets, models, fonts, images, and audio, and must disclose the nature and extent of any generative AI assistance used in your Entry. You warrant that you hold all rights necessary to convey the Entry as contemplated by Section 7.1 or, as to third-party materials you cannot convey, that Sponsor may use them under their governing license terms. Sections 7.1 and 7.3 do not purport to assign or license third-party materials beyond the rights you actually hold. An Entry must not incorporate components licensed under a copyleft or reciprocal license, including the GPL, LGPL, AGPL or SSPL.

Representations and warranties. You represent and warrant that:

you are the sole author and sole owner of the Entry, or hold a written assignment of all rights in it from every other contributor, and no other person or entity holds or claims any right, title, or interest in it;

the Entry is original to you and infringes no copyright, patent, trademark, trade secret, moral right, right of privacy or publicity, or other right;

you are not subject to, and your participation and the grants in Section 7 will not breach, any employment, invention-assignment, confidentiality, or consulting agreement or other obligation to any current or former employer or third party;

the Entry contains no confidential, proprietary, or trade-secret information of any third party;

the Entry contains no virus, worm, spyware, backdoor, or other malicious or disabling code;

the Entry neither collects nor contains any biometric identifier or biometric information, does not perform facial recognition or voiceprint identification, and does not infer emotion, attention, or affective state from face, voice or other biometric data. Speech recognition, transcription, and pronunciation assessment that do not identify a speaker are permitted;

the Entry does not mention or depict any identifiable person other than you (to the extent it depicts an identifiable person), and contains no personal information of any third party; and

the Entry was not developed or tested using real student data and was not tested with data of any person under the age of 13 without verifiable parental consent.

Indemnity. You will defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Sponsor and its affiliates, and their respective officers, directors, employees, agents, successors, assigns, licensees, and sublicensees, from any claim, demand, action, loss, liability, damage, cost, or expense, including reasonable attorneys’ fees, arising out of or relating to any breach or alleged breach of Section 7.6 or 7.7, or to Sponsor’s use of the Entry in reliance on them.

No obligation. Nothing here obligates Sponsor to review, evaluate, use, develop, publish, commercialize, return, or preserve any Entry, or to pay any compensation beyond a prize actually awarded.

Non-confidentiality and independent development. The relationship between you and Sponsor is not confidential, fiduciary, or otherwise special, and your participation places Sponsor in no different position from a member of the general public with respect to the ideas in your Entry. You acknowledge that Sponsor has wide access to ideas, designs, code, and creative materials from many sources; that Sponsor is independently developing, and will continue independently to develop, products and features addressing the same learning problems the Challenge concerns; and that many may be similar or identical to your Entry in concept, function, or design. You will not be entitled to compensation, and Sponsor will have no liability, in respect of any similar or identical material Sponsor develops independently or receives from another source.

Remedies limited to damages. You acknowledge that any harm from Sponsor’s exercise of the rights in this Section will not be irreparable or sufficient to entitle you to injunctive or equitable relief, and agree not to seek to enjoin or restrain the development, production, distribution, display, marketing, or exploitation of any Sponsor product, service, or property. Your sole remedy is an action at law for damages.

Total value. Total approximate retail value of all prizes: $15,000 USD. One prize maximum per Entrant.

Notification. Potential winners will be notified at the email address submitted with the Entry. If a potential winner does not respond within ten (10) days of the first notice, Sponsor may disqualify that Entrant and select the next-ranked Entry.

Verification. AWARD OF A PRIZE IS SUBJECT TO VERIFICATION OF THE POTENTIAL WINNER’S IDENTITY, ELIGIBILITY AND ROLE IN CREATING THE ENTRY. No Entrant is a winner, and no prize is awarded, until Sponsor has received and verified the required documents, which will include an eligibility affidavit, the confirmatory assignment under Section 7.4, and a completed IRS Form W-9 (U.S. persons) or Form W-8BEN (non-U.S. persons), even if a potential winner has been announced publicly or at Demo Day. Required documents must be returned within ten (10) business days of being sent. Failure to return them, or provision of incorrect or incomplete information, may result in delay, disqualification, or forfeiture.

Payment. Prizes are paid to the individual Entrant only, after verification, within sixty (60) days of Sponsor’s receipt of all required documents. Sponsor may require the winner to receive payment through an electronic payment provider of Sponsor’s choosing. Prizes are non-transferable; Sponsor may substitute a prize of equal or greater value.

Taxes and fees. Winners are solely responsible for all taxes on a prize and for any fees associated with receiving it, including wire and currency-conversion fees. Sponsor will withhold and report as required by applicable law, including U.S. withholding on payments to non-U.S. persons, and will issue Form 1099 or Form 1042-S as applicable. Winners are responsible for complying with the tax, foreign-exchange, and banking rules of their own jurisdiction and for any reporting required there.

Grant. You grant Sponsor a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, fully paid, transferable, and sublicensable right and license to reproduce, distribute, publicly display, and perform, excerpt, adapt and create derivative marketing content from your Entry, and to use your name, likeness, image, voice, city and country of residence, and statements about the Challenge, in any medium now known or later developed, for the purpose of promoting the Challenge, Sponsor, and Sponsor’s recruiting and employer brand. This includes the Entry Period, the review process, Demo Day, and any period after the Challenge concludes.

Term. The rights in Section 9.1 last five (5) years from the close of the Entry Period. Material Sponsor has published before the end of that term may remain in circulation and in use indefinitely, and Sponsor has no obligation to withdraw, delete, or recall it.

No approval right and no further compensation. Sponsor is not required to use any of these rights, and you waive any right to inspect or approve any use. No further notice, consideration, or compensation is due.

Publicity before winners are determined. Sponsor may publicize the Challenge while the Entry Period and Judging Period are open. Any such publicity is not an indication of any judging outcome.

Demo Day. Demo Day is not publicly streamed. Sponsor may record it and may use the recording within the rights granted in this Section. By presenting, you consent to being recorded.

Released Parties. “Released Parties” means Sponsor, its parents, subsidiaries and affiliates, and their respective officers, directors, employees, agents, representatives, successors and assigns, and the Judges.

Release. You release the Released Parties from all claims, expenses, and liabilities, including reasonable attorneys’ fees, arising out of or relating to your Entry, your participation, the acceptance or receipt of a prize, or the exercise of the rights granted in Sections 7 and 9.

No liability for failures. The Released Parties are not liable for incorrect or inaccurate information; technical failures of any kind, including interruptions or errors in transmission, the submission form, or your own equipment; unauthorised intervention in the entry process; or administrative or human error. Sponsor is not responsible for Entries that are incomplete, late, misdirected, lost, illegible, or corrupted. If an Entry is not received or is lost, your sole remedy is to request, promptly and consistent with these Official Rules and at Sponsor’s discretion, an opportunity to resubmit.

Entering the Challenge is not an application for employment with Sponsor or any affiliate, nor is it an offer of a consulting arrangement or engagement with Sponsor or any affiliate. Neither entry, nor selection as a finalist, nor receipt of a prize creates any right to an interview, an offer of employment, an offer of a consulting agreement or engagement, or any expectation of any of them. If Sponsor wishes to consider you for a role you will go through Sponsor’s ordinary application process, which is governed by Sponsor’s own procedures and not by these Official Rules. Employment with Sponsor’s affiliates is at will where applicable.

Compensation information. Any compensation information on the Challenge website describes roles Sponsor is recruiting for generally. It is not an offer, and any actual offer depends on role, level, location, experience, and Sponsor’s standard process.

What do we collect? What you provide: your name, email address, your description of your Entry, the prompt you selected if any, your demonstration video link or file, links to a code repository, and live deployment if provided, the disclosures required by Section 7.6, and any additional files you attach. What we record automatically: the referring page and marketing link you arrived from, your browser user-agent string, and a salted hash of your IP address. We store the hash rather than the address, and use it only to rate-limit submissions and uploads.

Why do we use it? To administer and judge the Challenge; to contact you about your Entry; to verify eligibility and pay prizes; to consider you for current and future roles; and to measure which channels Entries came from.

Who sees it? Nerdy personnel involved in administering, judging, and recruiting, and service providers that host our infrastructure, under contract and only as needed. Entries are held on a restricted internal page and are not loaded into Sponsor’s applicant tracking system or customer relationship management system. We do not sell your information.

How long do we keep it? Six (6) months from the close of the Entry Period, unless you ask us to delete it sooner; you have consented to a longer period so we can contact you about future roles; or we must keep it longer to comply with law.

Your choices. You may request access to, correction of, or deletion of your information, or withdraw your Entry, by emailing hackathon@nerdy.com. Withdrawing during the Entry Period removes your Entry from the Challenge. Deletion requests are honored subject to records we must retain by law and, where applicable, to rights already exercised under Sections 7 and 9.

Right to modify or cancel. Sponsor may modify, suspend, extend, or cancel the Challenge or any part of it, in its sole discretion, in the event of fraud, technical failure, or any other cause that compromises the integrity of the competition or is otherwise beyond Sponsor’s reasonable control, including any force majeure event. If Sponsor cancels after the Entry Period closes, it may judge the eligible Entries received to that point.

Amendment. Sponsor may amend these Official Rules at any time by posting the amended version on the Challenge website. An amendment takes effect when posted, or at any later time the posting specifies.

Precedence. If there is any inconsistency between these Official Rules and any other statement about the Challenge, including the Challenge website, the submission form, or any advertising, these Official Rules control.

Disqualification. Sponsor may disqualify any Entrant who violates these Official Rules, tampers with the entry process, submits work that is not their own, or acts unfairly toward other Entrants or disruptively toward Sponsor or the Judges — including after a potential winner has been announced.

Sponsor’s intellectual property. Except for Entries, all intellectual property relating to the Challenge, including Sponsor’s trademarks, logos, website, and materials, belongs to or is licensed by Sponsor.

Ambiguity. If you believe any provision is ambiguous, you must request written clarification from Sponsor before the Entry Period closes. Any ambiguity is resolved by Sponsor in its sole discretion.

No waiver; severability. Sponsor’s failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver of it. If any provision is unenforceable in any jurisdiction, the remainder stays in effect and the unenforceable provision is replaced by a valid provision that most closely reflects Sponsor’s intent.

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, SPONSOR’S TOTAL LIABILITY ARISING FROM OR RELATING TO THE CHALLENGE WILL NOT EXCEED $100. SPONSOR IS NOT LIABLE FOR INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR LOST PROFITS OR ATTORNEYS’ FEES. THE CHALLENGE IS PROVIDED AS IS, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND. NOTHING IN THIS SECTION LIMITS LIABILITY FOR GROSS NEGLIGENCE, FRAUD, WILFUL MISCONDUCT, DEATH OR PERSONAL INJURY, OR ANY LIABILITY THAT CANNOT BE LIMITED UNDER APPLICABLE LAW.

Governing law. These Official Rules and any dispute arising out of or relating to them or the Challenge are governed by the laws of the State of Delaware, without regard to its conflict-of-laws principles.

Arbitration. Except as provided in Section 15.4, any dispute that cannot be resolved informally must be resolved individually by final and binding arbitration administered by JAMS under its Comprehensive Arbitration Rules, seated in St. Louis County, Missouri. Judgment on the award may be entered in any court of competent jurisdiction.

Class action and jury trial waiver. YOU AND SPONSOR EACH WAIVE ANY RIGHT TO A JURY TRIAL AND ANY RIGHT TO BRING OR PARTICIPATE IN A CLASS, COLLECTIVE, OR REPRESENTATIVE ACTION. The arbitrator may not consolidate claims or preside over any class or representative proceeding.

Exceptions. Either party may bring a claim in small-claims court if it qualifies. Nothing in this Section waives, limits, or affects any statutory right or claim you may have relating to employment or an application for employment, or to pursuit of a consulting arrangement or engagement, which is expressly excluded from Sections 15.2 and 15.3.

Limitation on damages sought. You waive any right to seek punitive, incidental, or consequential damages, or damages other than your actual out-of-pocket expenses of entering, and any right to have damages multiplied or increased.

For the names of the winners, or a copy of these Official Rules, email hackathon@nerdy.com with “Nerdy AI Hackathon Challenge — Winners” or “— Rules” in the subject line. Requests must be received within three (3) months after the close of the Entry Period.

Email hackathon@nerdy.com.