Local Hack Day 2014
The final event of 2014 took place December 6th, 1200 students came together over 35 venues, for a relaxing weekend of learning, building and celebration. Our first ever Local Hack Day was a huge...
Best of The 2014 UK Fall Season
With the new year upon us, here at MLH we thought we'd take a moment to look back at our achievements and highlights from our first ever UK hackathon season! A massive thank you to all our sponsors,...
How do I find sponsors? (and other questions from our Sponsorship Workshop)
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...
Help Understand The Community! The Fall 2014 Hacker Survey
In June, we came out with the Hacker Survey, the first large scale survey of our community. From it we learned a lot about our community and continue to use the data to improve it and provide awesome...
Announcing the 2015 Spring Hackathon Season
It’s with great excitement that we announce the 2015 Spring Major League Hacking Season. The Spring 2015 Season is shaping up to be bigger than ever. Last season we had 36 sanctioned events, since announcing...
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...
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...
Unity Is Now Part of the MLH Hardware Lab
We here at Major League Hacking are happy to announce that Unity, the amazing company that powers the hacker 3D game engine of choice, is now a proud member of the MLH Hardware Lab alongside Alienware,...
Oxford and Warwick join the UK Hackathon Season
It’s time! We’re very excited to announce the final two hackathons that make up the inaugural MLH UK Hackathon Fall season! These two hacks add some choice and give alternative options to some of the...