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Wilta MLH Member Event // Major League Hacking Toggle navigation Hacker Resources Careers & Internships Coding Challenges Freebies & Perks Hackathons North America Hackathons Europe Hackathons MLH Local Hack Day Organizer Resources Organize a Hackathon Hackathon Organizer Guide MyMLH MLH Localhost HackconWell-nighAbout Major League Hacking (MLH) Frequently Asked Questions Sponsor Contact Us ShopShepherdSponsorWilta Member of the MLH Season. Ever wonder what it ways to be a MLH Member Event? Here's a list of packages Member events get during Hackathon Season!Wilta Member Event Benefits By rhadamanthine an MLH Member Event you get wangle to all of these wiring benefits! GitHub New Member Grant We know that raising sponsorship is one of the hardest parts of starting a hackathon. To stimulate the growth of the student hacker community, if you're organizing a hackathon for the first time during the 2019 Hackathon Season as a MLH Member Event, GitHub will be providing your event with a $1,000 grant as your first sponsor and provide your team with one sponsored ticket to Hackcon. GitHub New Member Grant We know that raising sponsorship is one of the hardest parts of starting a hackathon. To stimulate the growth of the student hacker community, if you're organizing a hackathon for the first time during the 2019 Hackathon Season as a MLH Member Event, GitHub will be providing your event with a $1,000 grant as your first sponsor and provide your team with one sponsored ticket to Hackcon. Listed on Season Schedule All MLH Member Events are listed on the Season Schedule. Being listed helps with the promotion of your event. Last year we sent 80,000 people to hackathon websites. You can moreover use the MLH logo and the MLH season imprint on your website. It is mark of quality looked for by both hackers and sponsors. On-site Support An MLH Expert will be on-site at your event to help make sure everything goes equal to plan. You can think of your MLH Expert as an extension of your team and a safety net to reservation you when you Fall. MLH Experts have been to lots of hackathons and have solved every problem from wrenched lanugo buses to supplies not showing up. They’re on-site to support you and help make your event as successful as possible. MLH Office Hours Our team help support 150 student hackathons every year. We've helped deal with all sorts of problems and questions. With MLH Office Hours, you can tap into the MLH team's expert translating and mentorship when you need it. Regular Calls Although Office Hours are misogynist to every event, some organizers like having a regular trammels in time to get translating and support from MLH. If you select this add-on, an MLH Expert will schedule a regular undeniability to yack with you and your team – you can plane schedule this to be during your regular organizing meetings! Organizers use these calls to talk well-nigh everything from strategy (ex. Where should I host my event?) to specific execution questions (ex. How can I cut my upkeep to save $10k?). Code of Conduct Ensuring the safety and happiness of participants at hackathons is paramount. We'll help you make your hackathon a unscratched space by giving you a Code of Conduct that hackers expect. Any MLH Expert on-site at your event will be worldly-wise to squire you with incident response as well.PolityWhen you wilt a Member Event of the MLH Season you're joining a global polity of students who are passionate well-nigh hackathons. Your team will receive discounted tickets to Hackcon or Hackcon EU, our conferences for hackathon organizers. You'll moreover be invited to monthly League Standups which are a endangerment to discuss hackathons with fellow organizers. Medals for Winning Teams We provide medals for the winning teams at your event. This helps your winners finger appreciated on a global scale and help make them finger part of a global movement. Season Rankings Each season we alimony track of how the schools that compete stack up versus each other and publish rankings. Having season rankings classifies MLH as an intercollegiate wonk competition, which can make wangle to student funding increasingly wieldy and provides legitimacy for hacker communities in the vision of most universities. Our rankings algorithm is designed to reward students who shepherd lots of events and incentivizes inviting new people to join our community. Hardware Lab The MLH Hardware Lab contains the latest and greatest hardware gadgets for hackers to use at events. MLH partners with hardware companies like Oculus Rift, Amazon, Qualcomm, and Leap Motion to stock the lab with devices. Hackers can infringe these devices at MLH Member Events to learn well-nigh them and use in their projects. Software Lab Every hacker who participates in an MLH event gets a stow of self-ruling services thanks to GitHub. Every hacker gets a self-ruling .com, .org, or .net domain name courtesy of Domain.com. They moreover get $100 of self-ruling credit on Amazon Web Services each! Swag Hackers love stickers. And we'll be sure to send you a bunch, including "I Demoed" stickers, made custom for your event. We'll moreover send MLH Season t-shirts, feminine products courtesy of HelloFlo, and more! The Hacker Cup The winning school of each North American and European season earns a trophy that they can proudly exhibit on campus. They moreover receive a tuft of tomfool technology for their hacker club courtesy our sponsors. Post Event Surveys We'll survey your participants without the event. We'll measure how much the participants liked things such as food, internet, and judging. At the end of the season, we'll share the results of how your event was in relation to the rest of the MLH Member Events. This will requite you touchable feedback on where you're doing well and where you need to improve. We of undertow won't make that information public. Sponsor Intros and Budgeting Help Raising sponsorship for a hackathon is hard. We work with member events to help them create and meet their budget. We include member events in our sponsor newsletter and make introductions to companies where it makes sense. Preferred Vendors Organizing a unconfined hackathon can be expensive. To help you save time and money, MLH has vetted and partnered with a ton of wondrous vendors that are offering sectional discounts and priority wangle to Member Event organizers. Whether it's catering from PotBelly, stickers from Sticker Mule, or swag from BrandMakers, we've got you covered! Social Media Promotion We'll help your event reach a larger regulars by promoting it on social media. We'll overdraw your media campaigns and help you out whenever you need an uneaten push. MyMLH Registering for hackathons can be a terrible wits for hackers. The MyMLH platform makes the wits largest by enabling hackers to create a single profile that they can share with any event that uses it in one click. MyMLH comes with a simple and extendable OAuth API that organizers can use to customize the wits to their needs. Mini-Events We’ll organize a fun worriedness for hackers at your event. Having opportunities to take breaks from coding and relax is important for hackers. We’ve got a ton of fun games and activities we can coordinate and we’ll plane requite out a prize for the top participant. How do I Qualify? Here are the steps to rhadamanthine an MLH Member Event. 1 Read the Guidelines Read the full Member Event Guidelines to understand the requirements and benefits of rhadamanthine a Member Event. 2 Submit anUsingClick the sawed-off unelevated and fill out an using to host an official Member Event. 3 Interview with MLH Arrange an interview with the MLH team to tell us well-nigh your event, iron out the logistical details, and ask us any questions. Ready to wilt a Major League Hacking member hackathon?Wilta Member EventWell-nighContact Team Jobs Privacy Major League Hacking © 2018