What is Local Hack Day?
Join us on December 1st, 2018 for MLH's Local Hack Day, a global hackathon and celebration of learning, building, and sharing! Whether you're a first timer who is learning to program or you go to hackathons every weekend, everyone is welcome to participate!
This is MLH's 5th year organizing Local Hack Day. In 2017, the event brought out more than 6,000 participants across 34 countries and 236 cities around the world. This year's event is shaping up to be the biggest one yet!
Where is Local Hack Day?
There are over 300 Local Hack Day locations around the world that you can participate in. To attend, find the location's page on the Local Hack Day website and register.
If there isn't a location near you, you can always particiate virtually!
What is a hackathon?
Hackathons are learning focused invention marathons where participants dream up fun, interesting projects and work in small teams to bring them to life over the course of the event.
When you're not working on your project, there are plenty of other things to do like attending educational workshops, making friends, or showing off what you're learning or building. At Local Hack Day you can do these with other participants at your location or participants around the world at other locations!
Requirements
All participants and submissions must abide by the Major League Hacking (MLH) Code of Conduct.
Prizes
$1,500 in prizes
Best Open Source Hack on GitHub
(7)
MLH and GitHub are both big believers in the power of Open Source. To enter, all you need to do to enter is upload your app’s code to GitHub and give it an Open Source license of your choice.
Winners receive $25 Gift Cards to the GitHub Swag Shop (1 per Team Member, Max 3 per Team).
Best Microsoft Azure Hack
(7)
MLH and Microsoft want to see you put your $100 Azure credit to good use, so we’ll be awarding prizes for the best hacks that use Microsoft Azure. To enter, sign up for Azure using the provided link and use an Azure API or service (hosting, machine learning, etc) in your project.
Winners receive $25 Gift Cards to the GitHub Swag Shop (1 per Team Member, Max 3 per Team).
Best Hacker Community Project
(6)
Local Hack Day is all about celebrating your local hacker community and we want you to build projects that make the community better. To enter this challenge, build a project that improves your local (or the global) hacker community.
Winners receive $25 Gift Cards to the GitHub Swag Shop (1 per Team Member, Max 3 per Team).
Devpost Achievements
Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:
Judges

Major League Hacking (MLH)
Judging Criteria
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Learn, Build, & Share!
Local Hack Day is about learning, building, and sharing with your community. This Devpost is just to show off all the amazing projects everyone creates.
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