Please note, not all challenges are submitted on Devpost. If you don't see the challenge you're submitting for here, check GHW Form and the website.
Spend a week hacking with the Major League Hacking (MLH) community at GHW: Data 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 Data Week?
Each GHW features a new theme, and this December we're exploring the world of Data and Databases! 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
Deploy a simple app to Defang Playground with “defang compose up”
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.
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.
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
Password Hashing
Create an application with authentication features that demonstrates password hashing. Share your secure app on mlh.link/GHWDevpost
Explore Data
Find a dataset and load it into a programming envrioment and start to explore it! Share on mlh.link/GHWDevpost.
CRUD Hack
Using a programming language and database of your choice, create an app that performs the CRUD (Create, Read, Update, Delete) operations. Share your app on mlh.link/GHWDevpost
Build a Data Visualization
There are so many different ways to visualize data. It can be as simple as a graph or as complex as a piece of art. Check out the streams happening throughout the week on Twitch.tv/mlh and share your hack here.
Sticker Database
As we all know, stickers are a big deal. Create a database to share the stickers you have earned or want to earn in the future! Checkout Cecilia's Stickerbase 2.0 track this week for reference!
Sports Analyst Hack
Create a hack that analyzes a sport you enjoy. The sky's the limit here - you could have an AI watch and analyze footage, a database store scores, or any other analysis you think would be fun to implement. Submit your demo on the Devpost to score a touchdown.
Time series database
Explore a time series database and submit your hack to Devpost
Use Environmental Data
We love going to hackathons and seeing projects to help the earth. Create any hack that will help us care for the environment better and uses enviornmental data and show it off on our Devpost.
Database Query Optimizer
Leverage artificial intelligence to create a system that analyzes SQL queries and suggests optimization techniques to reduce execution time and improve performance.
Open Data Use Case
Use an open dataset from government or non-profit organizations to build a solution addressing societal issues (e.g., education, healthcare, or transportation).
Complete introductory quickstart from workshop by Snowflake
Attend the Snowflake “Introduction to serverless data workflows with Snowflake” workshop on Day 1 of GHW Data Week!
Visit ghw.mlh.io/schedule to know more!
Couldn’t join? No problem! View the workshop recording on the MLH Youtube Channel (https://www.youtube.com/@MajorLeagueHacking).
Complete the introductory quickstart using the workshop’s step by step instructions and submit your solution to our Devpost Page!
End to end LLM challenge
Complete the following Snowflake community challenge (https://mlh.github.io/Snowflake-Challenges-GHW-Data-Week-2024/ghwdata1224-snowflake-llm) and submit your solution to our Devpost Page!
HINT: Check out Snowflake’s second workshop on our YouTube Channel (https://www.youtube.com/@MajorLeagueHacking) for a walk-through on how to complete this challenge.
Devpost Achievements
Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:
Judges
Major League Hacking
Judging Criteria
-
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
Tell your friends
This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.