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What is Local Hack Day: Build 2022?

Local Hack Day: Build is your opportunity to spend a week focused on creating and developing the projects you’ve always wanted to tackle. In accepting this quest, you are in for an adventure featuring workshops, fun mini-events, challenges, panels, and more. These will help you to earn experience points no matter what level of hacking you are at, whether it’s writing your first lines of code or creating a multi-faceted project.

We will be bringing back all of your favorite features from Local Hack Day Learn, Build, and Share 2021 like challenges, live technical sessions with MLHers, mini-events galore, and some cool content from our partners! Here’s a sneak peek:

  • Beginner-friendly workshops

  • Challenges for all difficulty levels and all topics such as design, social, technical, entrepreneurial

  • Hacker-run guilds

  • Talks from friends of MLH and our partners

  • Live sessions run by MLHers

  • And maybe an appearance from Totally Not Ryan (TNR)

Can I get swag at this event?

Yes, of course! LHD: Build will feature some amazing 2022 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 organized Local Hack Day?

Local Hack Day 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 one of Local Hack Day: Build 2022 and 2) during day day of Local Hack Day: Build 2022.  

Hackathon Sponsors

Prizes

Automate a Daily Task

Think about the tasks you do on a daily basis. Is there anything in there you can automate? Social media posts? Sorting your inbox? Sending out the zoom invite for the family meeting?

Build a chrome extension

It’s time to upgrade your web-surfing experience. Build a chrome extension to help you out - it could block distractions, change the background color of a webpage, or do anything else you dream up. A Chrome extension to help you submit on devpost might even be a good move.

Write a script to check the weather

Checking the weather can be useful in all sorts of applications - from alarm clocks to reminders apps to websites and everything in between. Write a script that can return the weather to you

Build a hack that writes haikus

Prepare to submit
This poetic hack
Right at this page here

Write a script to analyze article titles

Want to get a quick glimpse of an article? Create a hack that can analyze the general sentiment of story from only the title.

Create a hack to organize your reading lists

Trying to read more in 2022? Create an app to keep you on track. We can’t wait to read up on it on our Day 1 Devpost.

Create a website mockup using only 3 colors

We don’t want to bias, but we think red, yellow, and blue are pretty solid choices. Show off your tri-chome hack on the day 1 devpost!

Create a timer hack

It’s time to create a timer hack! Create something that will give you a countdown. If you’d like, add more functionality like scheduled alarms. When it’s time to submit, head to devpost.

Devpost Achievements

Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:

Judges

Major League Hacking

Major League Hacking

Judging Criteria

  • None
    Local Hack Day: Build is about celebrating our love for learning. Instead of judging projects and awarding prizes, we are giving out points to hackers who complete these challenges.

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