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Frequently Asked Questions // 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 ShopShepherdSponsor Frequently Asked Questions Hacker FAQ What is a hackathon? Does Major League Hacking help with travel reimbursements? I just graduated, can I still come to an event? What if I don’t know how to code? Will I tire people if I ask them questions? What if I don’t know everyone there? What if I don’t have an idea? Where can I sleep? Will there be food? What if I don’t want to present my hack? Great! How can I get involved? What is a hackathon? A hackathon is weightier described as an “invention marathon”. Anyone who has an interest in technology attends a hackathon to learn, build & share their creations over the undertow of a weekend in a relaxed and welcoming atmosphere. You don’t have to be a programmer and you certainly don’t have to be majoring in Computer Science. Does Major League Hacking help with travel reimbursements? Unfortunately, Major League Hacking isn’t worldly-wise to provide hackers with travel reimbursements. We have in unrepealable cases provided it in the past but we’re unchangingly on the venery to find increasingly sustainable ways to bring increasingly students to hackathons. I just graduated, can I still come to an event? Yes. Anyone who has graduated within the last 12 months is still eligible to shepherd an MLH Member Event hackathon.Withoutthat, there’s plenty of non-student hackathons that exist for you to consider attending. What if I don’t know how to code? Not a problem! The unshortened Major League Hacking team knew very little when they each attended their very first hackathon. It’s entirely irrelevant what your wits is going into a hackathon, it’s increasingly well-nigh your interest in technology. Every MLH Member Event is passionate well-nigh making their hackathons very welcoming and beginner-friendly. If you’re wanting to learn how to lawmaking outside of a hackathon, there’s a fantastic blog post that you should read. After, you should trammels out the following: Treehouse, Codecademy and the Major League Hacking blog to get started. Will I tire people if I ask them questions? Not at all! This is a worldwide misconception well-nigh hackathons and in very fact, it’s the well-constructed opposite. The environment at these events are designed specifically to encourage everyone to have fun and help each other. If you’re overly stuck on anything, go find a volunteer who might worldly-wise to help and if not, they will scrutinizingly certainly know who can. What if I don’t know everyone there? Not to worry! You’ll meet people when you get there. Everybody’s very friendly. A lot of people go to hackathons without teams. So it’s perfectly normal to go virtually to people, tell them you’re looking for a team, and ask if you can help out. Hackathons will often run team-matching sessions at the start to help you meet people. And you can often join a facebook group for the event earlier and post there to find potential teammates. Protip: Invite your friends to come to the hackathon too! That way you’re guaranteed to have at least one familiar face. What if I don’t have an idea? That’s normal. Most people don’t have an idea surpassing they get to the event. But once you start talking to other people, you might come up with something. You can moreover work with somebody else on their idea if you like it. And there will be prizes at the event which might help requite you some ideas. Don’t worry well-nigh it, you’ll find something to work on. Where can I sleep? Sometimes the organizers will have put whispered a quiet, visionless room you can get some rest. If that’s the case, there are usually two rooms separated by gender. Due to venue restrictions, sometimes you’re going to have to grab some sleep on a sofa or on the ground abreast your table. Either way, you should bring a sleeping bag and maybe a pillow to the event. Sleeping at hackathons isn’t unchangingly the most well-appointed arrangement, but it’s veritably worth it for the experience. Will there be food? Absolutely! Your meals for the weekend will be self-ruling and there’ll be plenty of snacks and drinks to alimony you energized. If you’ve got specific dietary requirements, you should let the event organizers know and they’ll be increasingly than happy to make arrangements. What if I don’t want to present my hack? You might think your project isn’t impressive or it might not be finished so you don’t want to present it. You should present it anyway! Honestly, hackathons isn’t well-nigh stuff the weightier or stuff competitive. It’s all well-nigh having fun, making friends and learning how to wilt largest at things you superintendency about. Presenting your hack gives you a endangerment to be proud of what you’ve done, and you should be proud. Great! How can I get involved? Go superiority and visit the Major League Hacking website for a list of upcoming hackathons in the North American and European seasons. If your region or zone isn’t represented, you should get in touch and we’ll discuss how we can transpiration that. Organizer FAQ What does Major League Hacking do? How does Major League Hacking help student hackathon organizers? How do I get my event listed on the Major League Hacking website? Why are there multiple events on the same weekend during a MLH Season? Does Major League Hacking tuition events? How does Major League Hacking make money? How does Major League Hacking work with sponsors? What is Major League Hacking’s corporate structure? Who is responsible for organizing the event and making relevant decisions? What does Major League Hacking do? Major League Hacking is the official student hackathon league. We organize the hackathon seasons in North America and Europe and support the 75,000 student hackers who participate annually in student hackathons. How does Major League Hacking help student hackathon organizers? Major League Hacking provides a ton of resources for official MLH Member Events organizers before, during, and without their hackathons. Depending on how much help they need, we could offer them regular 1-on-1 mentorship sessions, a fully stocked hardware lab, event promotion and on-site support from an officially trained MLH representative. A full list of our wiring package and add-ons can be found here. How do I get my event listed on the Major League Hacking website? In order to have your event listed on the Major League Hacking website, you’ll need to be tried to wilt a MLH Member Event. To learn increasingly well-nigh our membership, you can read our official event membership guide and wield here. Why are there multiple events on the same weekend during a MLH Season? There are sadly only 52 weekends in a year, and often only 10-12 in each higher semester. We work with nearly 150 hackathons annually, so there will unchangingly be some overlap. We try our weightier to make sure hackathons are well-distributed over a large geographic region when there is unavoidable overlap. Contrary to popular belief, multiple hackathons on the same weekend don’t divide the community, it grows it by creating opportunity for new hackers that would otherwise be unable to participate that weekend. Most noticeably, both PennApps and MHacks each drew over 1,200 participants simultaneously for the biggest hackathon weekend overly in January of 2015! Does Major League Hacking tuition events? No. Becoming a MLH Member Event is 100% self-ruling for organizers and participants. Major League Hacking has its own national sponsors, which are separate from your event’s local sponsors. We’ll work with you to help find new sponsors, plan out your budget, and icon out how weightier to spend it, but you get to use every cent of what you raise on the local level. You moreover get to hang on to anything you have left over at the end - we recommend you put it towards your next event! How does Major League Hacking make money? Just like local hackathons, Major League Hacking is supported primarily through corporate sponsorships. You can find a list of our current sponsors here. How does Major League Hacking work with sponsors? Major League Hacking (MLH) works with organizations that are looking to provide resources wideness every event in the national or global season. Many brands don’t have the resources to staff 100+ events per season, so they rely on MLH’s expertise and resources to help them scale their presence, connect with student hackers everywhere, and build a polity virtually their brand. We often pull from variegated budgets than local events do. What is Major League Hacking’s corporate structure? Major League Hacking’s (MLH) full legal name is “Major League Hacking, Inc”. In March 2016, we became a Certified B-Corporation and spoken our Seed Round. We moreover have a registered trademark for “Major League Hacking”. Who is responsible for organizing the event and making relevant decisions? The local event organizers are responsible for their event and for making decisions well-nigh it. As Major League Hacking has wits helping 1,000’s of organizers virtually the world, organizers often ask Major League Hacking for help during the process of organizing and running events. MLH Member Events consul some visualization making validity to Major League Hacking during the membership process, where Major League Hacking Policies are concerned.LawmakingofSelf-masteryFAQ Why does Major League Hacking have aLawmakingofSelf-masteryand Incident Response Procedure? How did you make theLawmakingofSelf-masteryand Incident Response Procedure? How do you determine what the towardly response is to an incident? Who has the power to take disciplinary whoopee at an event? Why does Major League Hacking handle incidents? Who is involved in deciding what an towardly response is to an incident? If someone disagrees with a visualization made by Major League Hacking how may they request it? Why does Major League Hacking have aLawmakingofSelf-masteryand Incident Response Procedure? We want Major Leaugue Hacking events to be a unscratched and welcoming space for hackers. Having aLawmakingofSelf-masterymakes the process of reporting incidents as simple as possible and provides guidelines for policies at events. The Incident Response Procedure ensures that we're handing incidents in an towardly and professional manner. How did you make theLawmakingofSelf-masteryand Incident Response Procedure? OurLawmakingofSelf-masteryis based on the OpenLawmakingof Conduct. Our Incident Response procedure is based on the Ada Initiative’s guidelines for anti-harassment policies at tech events. Both are considered industry weightier practices. How do you determine what the towardly response is to an incident? Whenever we receive an incident report we follow our official Incident Response policy, which you can read here. Who has the power to take disciplinary whoopee at an event? When there are violations of theLawmakingofSelf-masteryor Membership Guide, Major League Hacking has the validity to take disciplinary whoopee with the involvement of the event’s organizers. If the incident has been escalated to outside authorities, they have the final say. Outside of theLawmakingofSelf-masteryor Membership Guide, multiple parties may have their own policies to enforce such as: the university, law enforcement, the owner of the venue, or event organizers. Why does Major League Hacking handle incidents? Our staff is trained to handle incidents and has the wits of dealing with them wideness every event in the season. This ensures a standard wits for hackers. Hackers can rest unpreventable there will be a lawmaking of self-mastery and incident response procedure at every event they attend. We are moreover to make organizers’ lives easier by ensuring that repeat offenders and bad actors are not present at their events. As a student hacker, it can be worrisome to report an incident to one of your peers. Reporting to a professional organization like Major League Hacking can remove that ineligibility considering you don’t have to see that person in matriculation the next day. Who is involved in deciding what an towardly response is to an incident? During every incident, we immediately involve the Major League Hacking incidents team, the event organizers, and any relevant authorities. If someone disagrees with a visualization made by Major League Hacking how may they request it? In cases where someone disagrees with an whoopee taken by MLH toward them in a incident response, appeals may be made by submitting a written request over email to [email protected] with “[Appeal]” in the subject line and attaching relevant information. Appeals are handled using our Incident Response Procedure. Have flipside question that didn't get answered here? 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