Introducing the Spring 2016 Season
Get ready to Spring in to Hackathon Season! Today we are announcing the first batch of MLH Member Events for Spring 2016. We love seeing all of the brand new hackathons each season. They enable more students...
Major League Hacking is now Major League Packing
Today, we're pivoting. Our last two seasons we've been able to provide you amazing hardware at all MLH events. To make that possible we've been learning all about the logistics of packing and shipping....
Pusheen Boundaries at Pearl Hacks S2015
The second annual installment of Pearl Hacks last weekend saw over 600 college and high school women interested in technology come together to learn, build, and share ideas with each other. The aim of the...
Introducing Hackathon TV
Today we are very excited to announce a new experiment that the Major League Hacking (MLH) team has had in the works for a few months. This weekend at HackDFW we’ll be shooting a 60-minute Hackathon show....
Deploy Your Hack in 3 Steps: Intro to AWS and Elastic Beanstalk
You walk into your hackathon this weekend and are handed a business card from MLH and AWS with a URL on it. You head to the URL, fill out the form, and a magic $100 promo credit appears in your inbox to use on...
My Second Hackathon Changed My Life
Four years ago today, my friend John Britton dragged me to my first hackathon. It changed my life in ways I never could have imagined. For those of you who started attending hackathons more recently, it is...
Cosmos is the 2014 MLH + Thiel Rookie of the Year
Back in September we announced a partnership with the Thiel Fellowship to recognize extraordinary newcomers in the Major League Hacking community. We had more than 10,000 new hackers join us at MLH events...
5 Hacking Trends We’ve Seen This Season So Far
Ahoy hackers! When you hit up as many hackathons as we have, you begin to see some pretty clear trends in the kinds of hacks being produced. For some reason or another, hackers tend to rally around a few...
The Top 10 Ways To Ruin Your Hack
Ahoy hackers! Jon and Swift here. From this week on out, we are going to do a post a week about stuff we see at hackathons and in the hackathon community. This weekly column will give us the opportunity...
Announcing Our Presenting Partner: Major League Hacking Powered by Dell
Today we are extremely excited to announce that Dell will be joining the Fall 2014 season as Major League Hacking’s presenting partner. Over the last few months, we've been working closely with our...