A worldwide celebration of learning, building, and sharing.
What is Local Hack Day?
MLH's Local Hack Day is a series of simultaneous global events designed to spark a passion for technology in your local community. Spend the day getting hands-on experience and collaborating in a welcoming environment at a local event.* Whether you are learning to code or are an expert hacker, Local Hack Day is perfect for you and your community. Learn new skills, build new projects, and share your creations at a Local Hack Day near you.
This year we are doing things differently. You can now host a conference, a hack day, and a demo day for your community. We are focusing on the three important skills - Learning, Building, and Sharing.
*Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Local Hack Day: Share has moved to an online-only format.
Why Local Hack Day?
Local Hack Day is the easiest way to participate and learn with a worldwide community. Local Hack Day is designed to be as welcoming for beginners as experts and it all happens simultaneously with hundreds of locations around the globe.
Excited to learn something new? Local Hack Day will give you the space to do that. Find an location near you, register, and participate. That's all you need to do.
October 2019
LEARN.
Local Hack Day: Learn is a global day-long conference that allows your community to pick up new skills by experiencing a professional conference first-hand. Over the course of 12 hours attendees will participate in a series of workshops where they’ll learn skills such as publishing their first website using AWS, sending their first SMS with Twilio, and building their first game in Unity.
December 2019
BUILD.
Local Hack Day: Build is a global hack day that enables your community to get first-hand experience bringing their ideas to life by participating in a hackathon. Over the course of 12 hours, attendees will use hardware and software to build everything from websites to robots to mobile apps and more.
April 2020
SHARE.
Local Hack Day: Share is a global online demo day to highlight the accomplishments of your community. Put the final touches on your projects and develop your communication skills by participating is this worldwide demo day. Over the course of 12 hours attendees will spend time writing and speaking about the things they learned and built during the last year. At the end of the event, they’ll add their projects to their portfolios to share with the world.
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Testimonials
"Our team was able to use Local Hack Day's resources and hackathon model to create a more accessible hackathon for our students. It was a great way to introduce newer hackers into the community, and to encourage participation from all teams. Overall, it really helped convince our administrators to continue supporting hackathons at our school!"
