I'm often told that Software is Sexy and that, for some reason, Hardware is Decidedly Not. The breakdown in many hackathons support this thought. We don't have exact numbers on this (though I'm considering...

Good afternoon, hackers! Today we're super pumped to help GitHub announce the GitHub Student Developer Pack. Learning how to hack can be a costly affair, as access to APIs and company-specific...

Hackathons have a long way to go before it starts receiving serious, mature, and objective attention by the media. Often times, they get written up as a composite of cliches, somewhere along the lines...

We're getting ready for the launch of the MLH UK season. "MLH UK Launch Hack" is the first official one, and it's going down on this weekend. We're super pumped for it. And as you can imagine, lots of...

Hackathon culture should be a global, cultural phenomenon. We here at MLH are big believers in that. This past year, we started up MLH UK to greater foster college hackathons all across educational...

At MLH, we want everybody to have the chance to go to hackathons. Hackathons are a great place for beginners to learn about tech, to build cool stuff, and to have fun with friendly people. But travelling...

Here's a really, really cool throwback to a fantastic hack from PennApps X, two weeks ago. Team Magic Board hacked together a skateboard whose user can accelerate using a simple arm gesture, using a Myo...

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...

"There were absolutely no exceptions and no excuses." Meet Sahat Yalkabov. Last year, as he kicked off his senior year at the City College of New York, Sahat decided to code for 365 days straight -- a...

We've seen how hackathons change lives. And students tell us: they blog, they post, they tweet, and they scream at the tops of their lungs about it from dorm rooms. Unfortunately, if we only sung the...