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 title: "Hackathon"
 ---
 
+# Goal
+
+The aim of this event is to provide an opportunity for attendees to work with different early career researchers and gain experience working collaboratively in R to generate reproducible research. For the event, you will develop a function with your team to clean, explore, and/or visualise palaeontological data.
+
 # Briefs
 
-The aim of the hackathon is to develop a function to clean, explore and/or visualise palaeontological data. In doing this, you will also gain experience of collaborative and reproducible coding. We have prepared five project briefs for the hackathon. You and your group are free to choose whichever brief you wish to work on (first-come, first-served basis). Alternatively, you are free to work on your own project idea.
+We have prepared five project briefs for the hackathon. You and your group are free to choose whichever brief you wish to work on (first-come, first-served basis). Alternatively, you are free to work on your own project idea.
 
 ## Brief 1: geo_check
 
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 # Presentations
 
-At the end of the hackathon, each group will give a 10 minute presentation, followed by 5 minutes of questions. In the presentation, you should include:
+At the end of the hackathon, each group will give a ten minute presentation, followed by five minutes of questions. In the presentation, you should include:
 
 - Outline of the goal
 - Description of the inputs and outputs
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 - Example usage
 - Contributions of each group member
 
-Voting will then take place to determine the winning team.
+Voting will then take place to determine the winning team (EuroVision style).