This page is for our LHD: Build Day 1 Daily Challenges, if you're looking for a different day, you can access these below: 

Week-long Challenges
Day 2
Day 3
Day 4
Day 5

Please note, not all challenges are submitted on Devpost. If you don't see the challenge you're submitting for here, check the live site and your inbox to see where you should claim your points. 

What is Local Hack Day: Build?

Local Hack Day: Build is a week-long celebration of creating hacks both big and small. Choose between daily and week-long challenges that vary in difficulty, so whether this is your first time coding or you’re a seasoned expert, Build has something for you. The more challenges you conquer, the more points you’ll earn. Tune in each day to check out the leaderboard and show off all that you’ve built. To start hacking at LHD: Build, register here. 

What are these Challenges?

Local Hack Day: Build will run from Sunday, January 10th to Monday, January 18th. During this time, you can expect challenges for all skill levels. These challenges can be completed on your own time, and new ones will be released each day via email and on the live site! Once the daily challenges are announced, you’ll have 24 hours to complete and submit them in order to earn those points on the leaderboard.  

If the daily challenges aren’t quite your speed, there will also be plenty of week-long challenges you can complete at any time. These will range from quick technical challenges to tasks you can complete with your guildmates, both beginner-friendly and technically advanced so there is something for everyone.

How do I earn points and swag?

Earn points for yourself and your Guild by completing our challenges throughout Local Hack Day: Build. Points are rewarded based on both your participation and completion of challenges throughout the week of Local Hack Day: Build. These range from daily challenges to week-long challenges which can be as simple as posting on your social media or as advanced as completing a workshop and building a hack.

We have some seriously cool swag up our sleeves for Local Hack Day: Build and we’ve made it simpler than ever for you to earn it. It all starts with checking in to events. Whether it’s a workshop or just the day of the event, you can earn tons of stickers to deck out your laptop, postcards, and more. 

Everyone who checks in and completes a single challenge will receive:

An MLH Sticker
An Ellie Season Sticker
A Local Hack Day: Build Hexagon Sticker
A Thank You Postcard

 

If you check in each day, you will receive:

A bonus set of six hexagon stickers 

 

 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 Local Hack Day.  Whether you come in with a Guild or not, you won’t be hacking alone. Those who don’t already have a Guild will be assigned to a randomly generated one where you can meet hackers from around the world and complete challenges together. 

 I want to form a Guild. What does that entail?

One of our favorite parts of Local Hack Day is the Guild system. Form one of your own to hack alongside your friends and fight for a spot on the leaderboard. Who wouldn’t want bragging rights for having one of the most active guilds within the MLH community?! Every time you complete a challenge during the week of Local Hack Day: Build, you’ll earn points for your Guild. There’s strength in numbers so it’s important to spread the word and we are here to help by providing you with pre-made marketing templates and this blog post with tips on marketing (#4 specifically). Use these templates to share the excitement with your club, friends, and local hackers! The more members you have, the more points you’ll get and the faster you’ll climb your way up the leaderboard. 

Starting a Guild is as easy as filling out a form. Make sure to get yours registered before it’s too late!

Eligibility

This event open to hackers, all over the world. While we primarily work with student hackers or those who have graduated within the last 12 months, working professionals are also welcome to join us. Students can include high school students, university undergraduate or postgraduate students, and people who are in vocational training such as apprenticeships.

As per our Code of Conduct, there is no discrimination on the basis of race, religion, national origin, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, social class, economic status, veteran status, disability, or age.

Requirements

Your challenge submission must be completed within the 24-hour submission window (Sunday, January 10th at 12 PM EST - Monday, January 11th at 12 PM EST) 

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 one of LHD: Build and 2) during day one of LHD: Build. 

Hackathon Sponsors

Prizes

Build with a Starter Pack

Did you know we have Hackathon Starter Kits to help you get up and hacking with new tools as quickly as possible? Pick one out at hack.mlh.io!

Set Up a Personal GitHub Page

Maintaining a personal GitHub page is a great landing page to show off all the amazing hacks you work on. Create your own or update your existing page.

Hello, World in a New Language

It’s our first day, and what better way to say hello to the week than saying hello, world in a new language? Write code to say hello, world in any programming language that you’ve never used before. Not sure where to start? Feel free to check out online tutorials.

Devpost Achievements

Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:

Judges

Major League Hacking

Major League Hacking

Judging Criteria

  • None
    LHD:Build is a celebration of building projects both large and small. Instead of judging projects and awarding prizes, we are giving out points to folks who complete these challenges. These points go to earning your LDH:Build swag.

Questions? Email the hackathon manager

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