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...
Nick Quinlan Joins Major League Hacking as Commissioner
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...
Announcing Official Hacker Club Pages
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 to throw an Epic Hackathon
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...
Hackathon Fundraising: Getting Started
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...
Announcing the 2014 Fall Season Lineup
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...
What does it take to become an official MLH Hackathon?
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...
Announcing the 2014 Spring Season (Part 1)
The MLH team has been hard at work to put together an amazing lineup of hackathons for the upcoming 2014 Spring Season. We’ve met and talked to a ton of student hackathon organizers and couldn’t be more...
Hack Duke Scoring Breakdown
With only 11 hours left in the last event of the Postseason, the title of champion is still anyone’s game. By hacking at an official MLH event, each hacker here is earning 2 Attendance Points for their...
The first Postseason Rankings are Out
This past weekend was a great weekend for hacking. Hackers from 94 schools across the United States and Canada descended on the Yale and Princeton campuses for some really intense competition. The Major League...