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What is Global Hack Week: INIT 2023?

INIT is a celebration for the start of the 2023 Hackathon Season! 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: INIT 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: INIT 2023 and 2) during this day of Global Hack Week: INIT 2023.  

Hackathon Sponsors

Prizes

Receiving text messages: Twilio

In Day 5, your application will learn to understand Twilio webhooks, and pull out the contents of text messages sent to your Twilio number.
Don't forget to submit your code to our Day-Of Devpost!

Code in Python

We want you to try out this popular language today! Create a project in python and submit on the Devpost.

Connect Two APIs together

Using APIs opens a ton of functionality you can add to any hack. For this challenge, we just want you to connect any two APIs together.

Create a Random Number Generator

Many languages contain classes that allow for the functionality of a random number generator, but we want you to create your own method that does this. Don’t pick a random Devpost to submit to, submit your hack on our Devpost!

Build a project that uses a data set

Why not take a break from your Data Day Grind? To get started, check out these public data sets. Your project doesn’t need to be complex - we just want you to try working with data! Submit on the Devpost when you’re ready!

Create a Chat Bot

Global Hack Week is in part powered by some helpful Discord bots. We’d love to see you create your own Discord/Slack Bot or any other chat bot you’d like. Tell us all about it on the Devpost.

Build a Wordle clone in as little as 15 minutes!

Wordle is a great game to pass the time, challenge yourself and have fun. Now you can use React.JS to build your own Wordle clone, customize your word list and deploy it to the cloud! Learn more by watching this video tutorial [ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v66ESQQW7CY&t=2s&ab_channel=Linode ]. Share your Linode enabled project to our day-of Devpost.

Get started with DeSo!

Curious about blockchain development? DeSo is a great way to get started. Simply sign up for a DiamondApp account and submit your first post to the platform. We’ve got a getting started guide for you to use along with the DeSo Developer Hub! Make sure you take a screenshot of your post. Share the GitHub Repository of your code to our day-of Devpost page.

Build your own Social Media application on DeSo!

DeSo is the first blockchain built specifically to support Social Media applications. Checkout the DeSo Developer Hub for all of the available API calls you can use to build your very own crypto-powered social media application! Don't forget to submit your code to our day-of Devpost page. "

Devpost Achievements

Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:

Judges

Major League Hacking

Major League Hacking

Judging Criteria

  • None

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