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Spend a week hacking with the Major League Hacking (MLH) community at GHW: Cloud 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 Cloud Week?
Each GHW features a new theme, and this September we're exploring the world of Cloud technologies! 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
There are no prizes at GHWs but challenges to upskill coming soon!
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!
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!
Implement Login and Logout with your Auth0 SDK of choice
Choose one of our Quick Start guides for your language or framework of choice and follow the instructions for creating user-facing login and logout for your application.
Set up social login through Google
Follow this Google Social Connect guide which will allow you to implement social login with Google! This means users will be able to log in to your application using Google
Customize your login box
Follow Auth0's step by step guide to learn how to customize the color, font, and logo of your login form.
Create a simple app with "defang generate"
"Defang supports generating new project outlines from a sample or using an AI model. Using this feature, you can describe what you would like the service to do and the CLI will generate a project outline with all the files required. Inspect the project source files and the Dockerfile and Compose file to ensure they are as expected.
See: https://docs.defang.io/docs/tutorials/generate-new-code-using-ai for more details. "
Deploy a simple app to Defang Playground with "defang compose up"
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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.
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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."
Try using a Low or No Code Cloud tool
There are tons of tools that help you build awesome projects with minimal to no code. Try out one of them and share our project on our Devpost.
Create a Hack to Share Photos on the Cloud
Build any project that allows someone to share photos via the cloud! Submit on hackp.ac/ghwdevpost
Create a Useless Hack
Create any silly, unnecessary, or useless hack that utalized a cloud technology! Share it with us on our Devpost!
Build and Deploy a Simple REST API
Create a RESTful API using a framework like Flask (Python), Express (Node.js), or FastAPI (Python), and deploy it to a cloud service. Share on Devpost when you've completed it!
Deploy a Static Website
Create a simple static website (HTML/CSS) and deploy it to a cloud service. Share on Devpost!
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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