HackNY Scoring Breakdown

Just a shade under 24 hours ago, we kicked off the 8th edition of the HackNY hackathon at NYU’s Courant Institute. Over 250 of the best hackers from all over the northeast bussed in to compete at this...

MHacks Scoring Breakdown

A little over thirty-six hours ago, nearly 1,200 students from all over the United States made their ways to Ann Arbor for MHacks. From the API demos being broadcast over a massive jumbotron to the incredible...

Team Profile: RoboSapien Hackers

This afternoon I went over to the hardware lab at MHacks to see what the student hackers were working on over there. I had a quick chat with Josh Adkins and Genevieve Flaspohler about theirRoboSapien hack....

Hacker Interview: Kyle Smith

While I’m at MHacks I wanted to spend a bit of time getting to know some of the local hackers and hearing about the cool stuff they’re working on. Here’s the first interview I did with local UMich...

PennApps Scoring Breakdown

This weekend over 1,000 students from all over the world made their way to Philadelphia for 48 hours of hacking at PennApps. I’ve had the privilege of mentoring and hacking alongside them for about the last...

How Scoring Works

So how are we going to figure out which school gets to keep the totally epic MLH trophy at the end of the 2013 Fall Season? At each official MLH event, students will earn points for their respective schools by...