While the contest technically started three weeks ago, one of those was spring break for most of you so the second in-class week of the contest just ended.

By now:

You should be completely through the planning phases of your project and be working on viability checks/prototyping. By the end of this week, any features you're not able to get working at least a little bit should be discarded so that you have enough time to complete production and have time for testing and polish.