Spend a week hacking with the Major League Hacking (MLH) community at GHW: AI/ML Week!
What is Global Hack Week?
Global Hack Week takes place throughout the year to give you a chance to complete technical challenges, network with the community, enjoy fun live sessions, build technical projects, and make new memories.
We'll have challenges, live technical sessions with MLHers, mini-events galore, and some cool content from our partners! Here’s a sneak peek:
At each Global Hack Week, you can:
⭐ Watch live technical streams
⭐ Participate in skill-building workshops
⭐ Join us for fun activities
⭐ Enter and win swag in raffles
What is AI/ML Week?
Each GHW features a new theme, and this January we're spending a week of 50+ events designed to help you explore AI/ML technologies.
Who is GHW for?
Global Hack Week is for anyone ready to level-up their hacking skills. We welcome all programmers, designers, artists, and hackers from around the globe to join us for these events. Whether this is day 1 or day 1000 of your hacker journey, we want you to join us!
Can I get swag at this event?
Yes, of course! Each Global Hack Week will feature some amazing 2023 Hackathon Season swag…you’ll have to participate to find out exactly what you’re getting!
What is a Guild? How can I be a part of it?
One of the best parts of our community is that it allows people to meet and make connections with others, regardless of where you live. guilds are smaller communities within Major League Hacking. Whether you come in with a guild or not, you won’t be hacking alone.
Who organizes Global Hack Week?
Global Hack Week is organized by Major League Hacking (MLH). It is our mission to empower hackers worldwide by providing them with the tools, resources, and opportunities they need to succeed.
Requirements
1) Your challenge submission must be completed within the submission period.
2) When relevant, your code must be available in some sort of public repository.
3) If you're continuing work on an old project, you MUST specify in your Devpost what was worked on before Global Hack Week.
Prizes
Build your first AI/ML Game
Check out Kaggle's tutorial in Game AI and submit your hack on hackp.ac/GHWDevpost!
Refer: https://www.kaggle.com/learn/intro-to-game-ai-and-reinforcement-learning
Process A Dataset
Check out Google's Machine Learning Data Prep resources (https://developers.google.com/machine-learning/data-prep) and prepare a data set of your own using the principles they outline. Submit your hack on hackp.ac/GHWDevpost when you're ready!
Implement a Data Structure
To learn, AI requires data! Data structures help you organize data. Some of the most common types of data structures are arrays, linked lists, stacks, queues, binary trees, and heaps. Implement any data structure in a project and share with us on Devpost.
Use Speech to Text or Text to Speech
Using Speech to Text and Text to Speech can help you create more inclusive applications. Implement one of these (or both) to earn these points. Submit on Devpost!
Try using NLP
Natural Language Processing (NLP) is a powerful tool to help your programs understand text and spoken language. Create any hack that utilizes NLP and share it with us on Devpost.
Leverage Sentiment Analysis
Using Sentiment analysis can come in handy for many types of hacks from understanding how customers view a product to determining effective ways of communicating with your audience. Explore this topic and Submit your hack on our Devpost!
Hack with Chat GPT
Chat GPT has been all over our feeds lately, and we want to see what you can do with it! Build a hack with it or simply play around with the bot! Share your work on our Devpost!
Detect Spam
Use NLP (Natural Language Processing) techniques to classify emails as spam or non-spam. in any format of your choosing (email, text, etc.!) Share on our Devpost!
Movie Recommender
Build a recomendation system to suggest movies a user will likely enjoy! Submit on hackp.ac/GHWDevpost!
Object Detection in Images
Create a model that can detect various object in images! Ideas include food, cars, or plants! Share what you created on hackp.ac/GHWDevpost
Complete the GitHub Copilot Primer
Wondering how to get started with Codespaces? This Primer makes it easy by giving you the templates, videos and step-by-step resources you need to get you started running, testing, debugging and pushing code using this instant cloud developer environment - https://hackp.ac/ghwbw24-github-copilot
Set up a website with a custom GoDaddy Registry domain name!
Use promo code MLHGHWAML on https://hackp.ac/ghwbw24-godaddyregistry to snag your free domain name!
Get started with Autonomous Database
Oracle Autonomous Database is a fully automated service that makes it easy for you to develop and integrate a database into your project! The Autonmous Database (or ADB for short), uses machine learning to automate database tuning, security, backups, updates, and other routine management tasks you would typically need to handle manually.
Fantasy Premier League Challenge
Build an application using Oracle AI services and ADB or 23c to make team Fantasy Premier League team recommendations, such as players to trade and the lineup for the week.
The recommendations must be generated by Oracle AI services using the datasets provided by Premier League.
The recommendation should include a description as to why that recommendation was made.
Use the documentation linked below to help you find your solution!
"Must Watch" Challenge
Design a personalized list of your next "Must Watch" shows or movies utalizing Oracle. Submit on hackp.ac/GHWDevpost.
Hack with Kintone
Still not sure what backend to use in your hack? Kintone is a low-code web database that lets you set up your backend in minutes. It's beginner friendly, allowing you to customize your Kintone app using nothing but JavaScript and HTML.
Get started - https://hackp.ac/kintone-developer-license
Make sure to put your best foot forward, as the project that sounds out may receive a surprise swag!
Hack with TinyMCE
TinyMCE is a rich-text editor that allows you to create formatted content within a hacker-friendly interface. Adding a Rich Text Editor component has never been easier! Alongside functionality like bold, italics, underlines, hyperlinks, or titles (to name a few), the editor also allows users to enable HTML tags, MarkDown or CSS. TinyMCE even gives you the ability to edit your text elements directly with no code, similar to the way you would edit a word document but with even more practical hackathon use cases.
TinyMCE also has dozens of plugins that allow developers to customize their user’s experience. From implementing accessibility checkers, autocorrect, and enhanced image editing to utilizing emoticons, adding responsive design with auto resize and even a ChatGPT AI Assistant. If your hackathon project accepts ANY type of text input, you can use TinyMCE to take it to the next level.
Signup (https://hackp.ac/tinymce) for TinyMCE for a free trial and get started today, no credit card required!
Make sure to put your best foot forward, as the project that sounds out may receive a surprise swag!
Hack with MATLAB
MATLAB and Simulink are computational tools used at over 100,000 businesses, government and university sites in over 190 countries.
Claim a free MATLAB software license (https://hackp.ac/mathworks), watch the Machine Learning Tools in MATLAB series from AI/ML week and get started!
Hack with Adobe Express
Adobe Express is an AI-first, all-in-one content creation app that makes it fast, easy and fun to design and share videos, images, PDFs, flyers, TikToks, logos and more. Best of all, it’s free to get started (https://hackp.ac/adobe-xp-MLH).
Create a standalone hack or integrate Adobe Express to hacks that you submit for other challenges and opt-in to this category too!
Make sure to put your best foot forward, as the project that sounds out may receive a surprise swag!
Devpost Achievements
Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:
Judges
Major League Hacking
Judging Criteria
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There's no judging and there are no winners at GHW!
GHWs are week long hacker festivals for you to learn, share and explore!
Questions? Email the hackathon manager
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