If this is your first hackathon or if you want to learn a new skill, there are tons of resources available this weekend to aid your hackathon experience:

Getting Started:

• NEAR Docs
• Examples & Tutorials | NEAR Documentation 
• Protocol Roadmap 2023-4: The Next 2 Years of NEAR

Video Tutorials:

• Blockchain Operating System by Illia Polosukhin 

• Decentralized Front-Ends on NEAR Social 

• Near Day at ETHDenver 2023

 Basic Example- Hello NEAR! is a friendly decentralized App that stores a greeting message. 
 Advanced Example - BlockVote JS Edition is a blockchain-based voting application built using JavaScript on the Near Protocol blockchain

Potential Topics to work on this weekend:

• Use of AI with NEAR
• Use of Web2.5 
• Real World Use Cases

We encourage you to try something new and have fun creating awesome hacks this weekend.

Happy Hacking!