Please note, not all challenges are submitted on Devpost. If you don't see the challenge you're submitting for here, check the live site and your inbox to see where you should claim your points. 

What is Global Hack Week September 2023?

Global Hack Week is a week-long hacker festival. You can expect to complete challenges, hear about BIG community announcements, chat at hacker hangouts, enjoy fun live sessions, build technical projects, and make new memories.

You are in for an adventure featuring workshops, fun mini-events, challenges, panels, and more. These will help you to earn experience points no matter what level of hacking you are at, whether it’s writing your first lines of code or creating a multi-faceted project.

We'll have challenges, live technical sessions with MLHers, mini-events galore, and some cool content from our partners! Here’s a sneak peek:

  • Beginner-friendly workshops

  • Challenges for all difficulty levels and all topics such as design, social, technical, entrepreneurial

  • Hacker-run guilds

  • Talks from friends of MLH and our partners

  • Live sessions run by MLHers

  • And maybe an appearance from Totally Not Ryan (TNR)

Can I get swag at this event?

Yes, of course! GHW September will feature some amazing 2023 Hackathon Season swag…you’ll have to participate to find out exactly what you’re getting! 

What is a Guild? How can I be a part of it?

One of the best parts of our community is that it allows people to meet and make connections with others, regardless of where you live. guilds are smaller communities within Major League Hacking. Whether you come in with a guild or not, you won’t be hacking alone.

Who organized Global Hack Week?

Global Hack Week is organized by Major League Hacking (MLH). It is our mission to empower hackers worldwide by providing them with the tools, resources, and opportunities they need to succeed. 

Requirements

Your challenge submission must be completed within the submission period.

When relevent, your code must be available in some sort of public repository. 

If you're continuing work on an old project, you MUST specify in your Devpost what was worked on 1) before this day of Global Hack Week September 2023 and 2) during this day of Global Hack Week September 2023.  

Hackathon Sponsors

Prizes

7 non-cash prizes
Complete the DigitalOcean Functions Challenge
1 winner

Join other serverless learners by using DigitalOcean Functions to create a Sammy Shark in our Virtual Aquarium.

Code Telephone with Replit
1 winner

Peruse Replit's Community and find a project that intrigues you. Fork and remix it into something brand new! Once you're done, publish that to the Replit Community with the #MLH tag and share it with someone else. How long you can keep the chain going?

Make a Phone Ring with the Internet
1 winner

The Day 3 guide will walk you through making a phone call using Twilio and your terminal.

Create a Text-Based Adventure Game
1 winner

We’re feeling inspired to go on an adventure after seeing the Local Hack Day branding this year. Create a text based adventure game that will take players on a journey.

Explore Machine Learning
1 winner

If you’ve always wanted to learn about Machine learning, now is your chance! Build a small project, read articles, or follow a tutorial to explore this project.

Build a Hardware Hack
1 winner

Whether or not you have hardware at home, we want you to explore a hardware hack. Check out an emulator or use hardware you have around your house. Don’t forget to submit on Devpost.

Be Featured On Stack Overflow!
1 winner

Stack Overflow has a ton of useful data for all types of developers. Using the information in the Stack Overflow API, build an app that would be interesting, entertaining, or educational for other students, developers, or technologists. You can use any data you like, including data from our public data set. Anyone that builds an app will have themselves and/or their guild featured on the Stack Overflow Blog! This post will be promoted across every Stack Overflow Q&A page, putting your work in front of tens of millions of your fellow developers! We'll also have our engineers select three winners who will be highlighted on our blog, podcast, and newsletter.

We'll judge each team's app on three criteria:
1) Stick to the theme
2) How creative
3) How helpful to others

Be sure to submit your project on our day-of Devpost!

Devpost Achievements

Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:

Judges

Major League Hacking

Major League Hacking

Judging Criteria

  • None

Questions? Email the hackathon manager

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