Spend a week hacking with the Major League Hacking (MLH) community at GHW: Season Launch!

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 Season Launch Week?

Each GHW features a new theme, and this July we're celebrating the launch of 2025 hackathon season! 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 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 organized 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.  

Hackathon Sponsors

Prizes

15 non-cash prizes
Create a Browser Extension
1 winner

Many of us have browser extensions we rely on. Make one of your own to help make your web-surfing experience better. Share with us on our Devpost.

Try using Bootstrap
1 winner

Try incorporating Bootstrap into a website - either one you’ve already created or spin up a new one. Show it to us on the Devpost.

Social Media API
1 winner

Try using a Social Media API like Facebook or Twitter. Share it with us over on our Devpost.

Sort a List
1 winner

This is a classic problem in computer science for a reason. If you’re new to hacking, keep it simple! If you’re one of our more experienced hackers, try this in a new language or without leveraging search engines. If you’re looking for a specific list to sort, try sorting this list of hackathons (https://hackp.ac/sort-a-list) alphabetically and then try sorting by their dates. Submit on Devpost!

Redesign Your Favorite Website
1 winner

Ever been frustrated with how a website was laid out? We want you to pick any website and imagine a new layout for it. You can simply draw it out, wireframe it, or even write the HTML/CSS if you’d like. Submit your hack on Devpost

Build a Data Visualization
1 winner

Data science is one of the fastest growing fields in tech. 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. Show off your visualization on the Day 3 Devpost when you’re finished.

Explore Hardware (Emulators Welcome!)
1 winner

Whether or not you have hardware at home, we want you to explore a hardware hack. Check out an emulator or use hardware you have around your house. Don’t forget to submit on Devpost.

Create a Medical Hack
1 winner

There is so much innovation happening in the medical world, and hackers are always coming up with new ideas to improve medical experiences. You could create a smart pill dispenser or an app that helps with a medical diagnosis. Submit your hack on our Daily Devpost!

Use a Low or No Code tool
1 winner

Try using any low-or no code tool! Submit what you created to our Devpost

Mental Health Resources
1 winner

Build a hack that gives folks easier access to Mental Health resources. Share on Devpost!

Build for your Community
1 winner

Create a project or application that helps support your local community. Share with us on our Devpost.

Deploy a NextJS app
1 winner

Deploy a NextJS app with Defang 1-Click Deploy

Running locally is easy, but deploying to the cloud is complicated. Defang makes it easy to deploy apps to the cloud with a single command.

Find out first hand how quickly you can deploy a simple JavaScript application to the cloud with the help of this step by step guide (https://hackp.ac/ghwlaunch24-defang-deploy).

Defang CLI
1 winner

Install the Defang CLI, generate an application outline, and deploy it
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 then generate a project outline with all the files required to make it work.

Defang can simplify your development workflow, getting you up and running on the cloud in a fraction of the time. You can add Defang to your developer tool belt by simply following this step by step guide (https://hackp.ac/ghwlaunch24-defang-outline).

HashiCorp Terraform
1 winner

Build, change, and destroy Docker infrastructure using HashiCorp Terraform

Terraform is a tool for defining and managing your infrastructure as code. Like servers and databases—across cloud and on-premises environments. It can also manage resources on your local machine, like files, folders or Docker containers. In this challenge, you’ll learn the basics of Terraform step by step (https://hackp.ac/ghwlaunch24-hashicorp-challenge).

Enter the Sauce Labs hot sauce naming competition
1 winner

Enter the Sauce Labs hot sauce naming competition

Sauce Labs is the world's largest continuing testing cloud platform for web and mobile!

They also happen to make some awesome hot sauce and for this challenge, they need your help to spice up their name.

Click into the submission form(https://hackp.ac/ghwlaunch24-saucelabs) for the most up to date instructions and then come back here and upload the screenshot to devpost to get a point!

Devpost Achievements

Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:

Judges

Major League Hacking

Major League Hacking

Judging Criteria

  • None
    GHW exists to give you a chance to learn, build, and share in a non-competitive environment.

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