Hackathon-Resources

Collection of high quality hackathon resources for hackathongoers and hackathon organizers. If you find anything new, feel free to submit a pull request!

Hackathon Awareness

• WTF is a hackathon?
• Hackathons are like gyms
• Hackathons are taking the world by storm
• The rise of the High School Hacker
• The Rise of the High School Hackathon
• PennApps X Application Stats
• Everyone’s watching hackTECH
• Let’s hack the west coast
• A brief history of hackathons
• With Hackathons Taking Center Stage, The Coming Transformation Of The Computer Scientist
• (Almost) everything you need to know about hackathons
• Why I call myself a hacker
• A Hacking Hiatus
• Love in the time of mega-hackathons
• Hackathons are for Hacking
• The New Hackers
• What makes CodeDay so great?
• Hackathons: The Golden Value Prop
• Hackathons aren’t about the hacks.
• Back to the Hacks
• Selling Out and the Death of Hacker Culture

Hackathon Stories

• My hackathon journey
• MHacks IV, my first Hackathon: I wouldn't trade it for anything
• I Survived MHacks

Planning a Hackathon

• The first step in planning a successful hackathon
• How to throw an Epic Hackathon
• How to run a hackathon
• Hackathon Fundraising: Getting Started
• Hackathon Sponsorship Questions Answered
• The HackCon Experience
• Your Sponsors Are the Most Important Part of Your Hackathon
• What is it like to organize HackMIT?
• How to Run a Hackathon
• Hosting Hackathons: Getting Awesome Sponsors
• Running an Inclusive Hackathon
• Why hackathons should conclude with a demo
• Hackonomics 101: The economics of who pays for a hackathon, and why.
• The Hackathon Budget
• Hackathon Playbook Part 2: How to Organize an Event
• The Hack Day Manifesto
• How we built HackBU at Binghamton University
• Hackathon Fundraising
• Wi-Fi that Works.
• The Hackathon Boilerplate
• How to Make Your Hackathon Last
• MHacks: From Dream to Reality
• How to Judge a Hackathon
• Hackathon Prizes
• MLH Hackathon Organizer's Guide
• The Sponsorship Playbook

Sponsoring a Hackathon

• Hackathon Playbook Part 1: How to Sponsor
• Realizing Rewards from your Hackathon Sponsorship

Preparing for a Hackathon

• How You Can Prepare for a Hackathon
• 4 Things You Should Do To Prepare for A Hackathon
• Hack the Travel

The Hacker Experience

• The 8 Kinds of Projects You Meet at a Hackathon
• Dear Corporations, Please Stop Throwing Your Own Hackathons
• Hackathon-ing as a Non-Developer
• It’s Not “Too Late” for Female Hackers
• The Hack Code of Conduct
• Redesigning the Hackathon Experience for Beginners (Extended)
• How To Present A Successful Hackathon Demo
• VTHackers — Building a Community in the Middle of Nowhere
• The Birth of the Cortex
• Why hackathons should conclude with an Expo
• Your First Hackathon
• The Top 10 Ways to Ruin Your Hack

Videos

• Hackathon Transportation 101
• Hackathon Sponsorship Workshop
• Hackcon I - HackBrown: Getting Newbies Attending and Productive
• Hackcon I - Bitcamp: Getting the University to Help Fundraise
• Hackcon I - Securing Awesome Judges for your Hackathon
• Hackcon I - How HackMIT & PennApps Fundraise
• Hackcon I - Building a Travelling Hacker Team at Maryland
• Hackcon I - Hacker Club Organization: TechX at MIT
• Hackcon I - When "awesome" is isolating: Making Hackathons Accessible
• Hackcon I - Hackathon Values
• Hackcon I - Hackathon Judging Discussion
• Hackcon I - Bitcamp: Hackathons as Branding
• Hackcon I - MHacks III women outreach campaign & results
• Hackcon I - MHacks: Organizer Outreach and Busconomics
• Hackcon I - HackDuke: Getting Newbies Attending and Productive
• Hackcon I - Running an Inclusive Hackathon
• Hackcon I - Aligned Interests for Successful Hackathons
• Hackcon I - Hackathon Stories
• Hackcon I - PennApps Logistics & Crisis Management
• Hackcon I - Hackonomics 101
• Hackcon I - PennApps: Getting Newbies Attentive and Productive
• Hackcon II - The State of the League 2015
• Hackcon II - Hackathons are for Hacking
• Hackcon II - Hacking for Good
• Hackcon II - Hackathon Boondoggle
• Hackcon II - Volunteering at Hackathons
• Hackcon II - Health Emergencies at Hackathons
• Hackcon II - Beyond Logistics: The Moonshot Team
• Hackcon II - Hackathon Hackers
• Hackcon II - Understanding the Community
• Hackcon II - Shariq Gives a Talk
• Hackcon II - Marketing to Humans, not Robots
• Hackcon II - Frighteningly Ambitious Hackathon Ideas
• Hackcon II - How to Inspire Absolute Beginners
• Hackcon II - University Funding for Hackathons
• Hackcon II - Local Hack Day and Distributed Hackathons
• Hackcon II - Rethinking Scale
• Hackcon II - Hackathon IT
• Hackcon II - Inbox Management
• Hackcon II - Open Hackathon Data
• Hackcon II - Closing Address