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Between a video game playing Yeti, snow cone producing snowman, therapy dogs and epic Nerf gun battles - HackIllinois 2015 saw plenty of hackathon awesomeness over the weekend that kicked off the season of...

I recently gave a workshop on how to raise sponsorship for hackathons. We talked about everything from how to price your sponsorship packages to how to keep sponsors happy. We received a whole bunch of great...

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...

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...

We are beyond ecstatic to announce today that Nick Quinlan, a world-renowned developer evangelist and loon enthusiast, will be joining the Major League Hacking team as the full-time Commissioner of the League...

We are extremely excited to announce the launch of Major League Hacking Club pages. The schools with the strongest and most successful student hacker communities all have one thing in common - an...

How do you throw a truly epic hackathon? In this post, we’re going to walk you through some of the things that helped make one of the MLH team’s favorite new events, BoilerMake, a huge success. If...

So you want to throw a hackathon? You’re going to need to fundraise. This guide will get you from zero to sending your first emails to sponsors in no time. If you have any tips of your own, we’d love to...

We are extremely excited to announce the launch of the calendar for the 2014 Fall Season. Last semester more than 10,000 student hackers competed at nearly 40 Major League Hacking hackathons all over the...

One of the most common questions that hackathon organizers ask us is “What does it take to become an official Major League Hacking hackathon?”. Today we’re excited to unveil the official MLH Event...