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Spend a week hacking with the Major League Hacking (MLH) community at GHW: Career 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 Career Week?
Each GHW features a new theme, and this November we'll be exploring topics that will set you up for a successful career! Throughout the week, we'll offer workshops, technical sessions, and more!
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 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 2025 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
Your challenge submission must be completed within the submission period.
When relevent, your code must be available in some sort of public repository.
If you're continuing work on an old project, you MUST specify in your Devpost what was worked on 1) Before this day of Global Hack Week and 2) During this day of Global Hack Week.
Prizes
Build a professional resume for yourself!
Keeping your Resume and LinkedIn up-to-date with the hackathons you’re attending and hacks you’re building is a great way to share with the community what you’re up to. Watch this video with Wei (https://mlh.link/resume-builder) and make a professional resume for yourself!
Solve a common coding interview question
Write code to solve a common technical interview question! Not sure where to start? Check out this list (https://www.simplilearn.com/coding-interview-questions-article) of the top 40 coding interview questions. Share your work at mlh.link/GHWDevpost.
Business card scanner
Ever receive a business card but don’t want to take the time to type all the details in? We’re challenging you to create an application that will scan business cards and store the data. Submit to Devpost.
Create a Useless Invention Hack
Create a hack for a totally useless or silly invention. The more useless and silly, the better. Head over to Devpost to submit it.
Create a Productivity Hack
Create a hack that helps you stay productive! You could build a chrome extension that blocks distractions, a device that locks your phone while you need to work, or any other hack to help you stay on track this season. Submit on our Devpost.
Develop or Redesign your Portfolio Website
Having a portfolio website is a great way to level up your online presence. If you don’t already have one, take some time today to set one up. If you already do, spend time updating or redesigning it. Show it off on Devpost.
Create a Scheduler
Build a project to help manage schedules! Some ideas include developing this hack for your personal calendar, a professor's office hours, or a work schedule! Pencil in some time to submit it on the Devpost.
Automate your Morning Routine
A great day starts with a great morning routine. Build a hack that automates some part of your morning routine. Maybe that cup of coffee is brewed before your feet touch the ground, or your toothpaste is on the toothbrush without you lifting a finger. Submit on our Devpost!
Explore a new Language
Pick up a new programming language to use throughout this next season. You can translate one of your existing projects into it, or even just learn how to say hello, world! Submit your code on our Devpost!
Make a To-Do application
Create any hack to help you keep track of items you’ve completed. As always, add a to-do to submit on the Devpost.
Interview Practice Bot
Create an AI-powered interview bot that can simulate different interview types (technical, behavioral, case study) and provide feedback on answers, speaking style, and even non-verbal cues. Submit your hacks to Devpost.
Work-Life Balance Tracker
Develop an app that monitors daily activities and suggests routines or adjustments to improve work-life balance, with features like tracking hours worked, breaks taken, and stress indicators. Submit to Devpost.
Portfolio Builder using TinyMCE
Create a portfolio builder that uses TinyMCE and submit to Devpost!
Get started here - https://mlh.link/tinymce
Use GitHub Copilot to complete any of this week’s challenges
Sign up for the GitHub student developer pack to get free access to GitHub Copilot and use it to help you complete any of this week’s coding-based challenges!
Share your builds in a GitHub Discussion and add your project to our Devpost Page!
Deploy a simple app to Defang Playground with “defang compose up”
You can deploy the app you created in Challenge 3 to the Defang Playground environment with a single command: "defang compose up" (https://docs.defang.io/docs/cli/defang_compose_up). Verify the app is accessible on the Internet and test it. Inspect the app on the Defang Portal. If anything goes wrong, use the "defang debug" command to let the Defang AI assistant help you find and fix the issue.
Advanced Challenge: Enhance your application with advanced features for compute and/or storage.
Defang supports using GPUs in your applications - see https://docs.defang.io/docs/concepts/resources and https://docs.defang.io/docs/tutorials/deploy-with-gpu#aws-account-with-gpu-access
Defang also supports specifying persistent storage services in your application (e.g. Redis, PostgreSQL) - see https://docs.defang.io/blog/june-2024-product-update#managed-redis
Use one or both of these features to take your application to the next level.
Take Climate Action!
Find a way to reduce your code’s carbon footprint.
To help you get started, we’re providing a list of GitHub’s top 10 tools to “green” your software.
Share your implementation with us on our Devpost Page!
Devpost Achievements
Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:
Judges
Major League Hacking
Judging Criteria
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None
Global Hack Weeks exists to give you a chance to learn, build, and share in a non-competitive environment. There is no judging or winner at GHWs.
Questions? Email the hackathon manager
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