Hackathon Organizer Guide
  • Introduction
  • overview
    • What is a Hackathon?
    • What is MLH?
    • MLH Hackcon
    • MLH Community Values
    • Event Types
      • Digital Events
        • Digital Mini Events
          • Marble Races
          • Pokemon Showdown
          • Wiki Races
          • Hacker Hangouts
        • Streamyard
  • General Information
    • Hackathon Timeline
    • Finding the Date and Purpose
    • Build Your Leadership Team
    • Locking Down a Venue
    • Hackathon Budgeting
      • Legal Considerations
    • Getting Sponsorship
      • Introduction to Fundraising
      • Understanding Your Sponsors
        • Evaluating In-kind Sponsorships
      • Potential Sponsor Perks
      • Sponsorship Prospectus
      • The 5-Step MLH Sponsorship Process
      • Cheat Sheet: Emailing Your Sponsors
    • Hackathon Website
      • Making an Accessible Design
      • Placeholder Website
      • Main Website
    • Marketing Your Event
      • Promoting Your Event
        • Marketing Email Template
      • Marketing Goals & Timelines
    • Managing Registrations
      • Registrations
      • Free Registration Tool - OrganizerHQ (OHQ)
      • Sending Reminders
        • Email Templates
      • Check-in Process
    • Event Logistics
      • Hackathon Communication Platform
      • Project Challenges
      • Ordering Swag and Prizes
      • Set Up Your Event
      • Working with Food Vendors
      • Hosting Hackers with Dietary Restrictions
      • Distributing Meals
      • Transportation/Travel Plans
      • Hardware
      • Prepare Your Emergency Plan
    • Judging and Submissions
      • Rules for Your Hackathon
      • Judging Plan
      • Cheating Check
      • Judges Communication and Recruiting
      • Hackathon Submission Portal
        • Using Devpost
        • Using Devfolio
        • Using DoraHacks
    • Hackathon Scheduling
      • Detailed Run of Show
      • Run-Through with the Team
      • MLH Tips and Templates
    • Mentorship
    • Day of Logistics and Hacker Experience
      • Help Desk Recommendations
      • Fun Mini Events
      • Workshops
      • Opening Ceremony
      • Closing Ceremony
    • After the Event
  • Organizer Resources
    • Template Links
    • Getting Support from Others
    • Leadership Resources
    • Marketing Resources
    • Registrations Resources
      • GDPR in Europe
    • Host Exciting Mini-Events
      • Cup Stacking
      • MLH Mini Events
        • WereWolf
        • Slideshow Karaoke
        • !Light
        • MS Paint Bob Ross
    • Keeping Records
    • Software for Hackathons
  • Contributors
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  • Admissions
  • Registration
  • Communication
  • Mentorship
  • Judging

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  1. Organizer Resources

Software for Hackathons

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Student Hackathon Organizers have been building software to make managing their events even easier. Take a look at the following software solutions that you could potentially deploy to manage aspects of your event.

Hacker Identity

  • - MyMLH is an API that enables hackers to easily share and manage their data in one click. Integrate it into your apps using OAuth.

  • - Boilerplate code for any new MLH Member Hackathon looking to build a website integrated with MyMLH. Written entirely in Jekyll, which automatically compiles to make hosting seamless.

  • - The official OmniAuth strategy for MyMLH, making it extremely easy to integrate MyMLH into your existing Ruby/Rails apps.

Admissions

  • - An extensible and comprehensive hackathon application system that integrates with MyMLH, Slack and more from HackTX. Built using PHP.

  • - An all-in-one platform for hackathon registration & logistics with support for MyMLH. Accept applications, facilitate RSVPs, coordinate busses, communicate with hackers, and more from a single tool. Built using Ruby on Rails by the codeRIT team.

Registration

  • - A registration system designed especially for hackathons. For hackers, it's a clean and streamlined interface to submit registration and confirmation information. For hackathon organizers, it's an easy way to manage applications, view registration stats, and more! Built using Node.js by the HackMIT team.

  • - A registration system designed for hackathons. It allows to the hackathon organization team to manage applications including travel reimbursement, applications reviews, project judging, registrations stats and more. Built using Django by the HackUPC and HackCU team.

Communication

  • - A simple, extensible, free to use communication tool that can be used for almost anything at hackathons.

Mentorship

Judging

- An extensible real-time queue application for mentorship at hackathons. Built using Meteor by the HackMIT team.

- An expo / table numbers app for your Devpost hackathon. Updated via CSV and built using HTML/CSS/JS.

- A hackathon judging system that uses fancy math to get great results. Built using Python/Flask by the HackMIT team.

MyMLH
MLH-Hackathon-Boilerplate
GitHub pages
omniauth-mlh
Nucleus
HackathonManager
Quill
HackAssistant
Slack
HelpQ
Devpost Expo / Table Number App
Gavel