Build your way to greatness all week long at LHD: Build by completing challenges both big and small. You’ll expand your network, skillset, and hacker portfolio, and earn yourself rewards.
Build your way to greatness all week long by completing challenges both big and small. You’ll expand your network, skillset, and hacker portfolio, and earn yourself rewards.
Checking out the challenges already?! Smart... we'll be announcing some teasers as we get closer to the event!
Checking out the challenges already?! Smart... we'll be announcing some teasers as we get closer to the event!
First things first, we want to get you registered! Check to make sure you’re signed up and checked in to earn yourself your first points. It's as easy as that!
After registering, you’ll need to provide us with a bit more information to be eligible to receive swag. We use this information you provide here to run LHD: Share (tracking and awarding you points)! Fill it out now!
Head to hackp.ac/Address to make sure we have an updated address so we can send you swag! If you’ve submitted before, you don’t need to submit again (you'll still get a point)!
Join us on Discord! If you’re not familiar with Discord, make sure to follow the steps in #🚦-get-started and #lhd-share-check-in!
We want you to join a community-led guild during LHD: Share! These are a great place to meet other hackers, and we’ll have challenges you can only complete with the help of your guildmates. Head to the #lhd-share-looking-for-guild or #lhd-share-join-my-guild in our Discord to find your hacker family. Then complete hackp.ac/LHDShareJoinAGuild!
Checking out the challenges already?! Smart... we'll be announcing some teasers as we get closer to the event!
First things first, we want to get you registered! Check to make sure you’re signed up and checked in to earn yourself your first points. It's as easy as that!
After registering, you’ll need to provide us with a bit more information to be eligible to receive swag. We use this information you provide here to run LHD: Share (tracking and awarding you points)! Fill it out now!
Head to hackp.ac/Address to make sure we have an updated address so we can send you swag! If you’ve submitted before, you don’t need to submit again (you'll still get a point)!
Join us on Discord! If you’re not familiar with Discord, make sure to follow the steps in #🚦-get-started and #lhd-share-check-in!
We want you to join a community-led guild during LHD: Share! These are a great place to meet other hackers, and we’ll have challenges you can only complete with the help of your guildmates. Head to the #lhd-share-looking-for-guild or #lhd-share-join-my-guild in our Discord to find your hacker family. Then complete hackp.ac/LHDShareJoinAGuild!
Checking out the challenges already?! Smart... we'll be announcing some teasers as we get closer to the event!
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. 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. You can learn more about these below!
All times displayed in America/New_York (EST).
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7:30 AM ET
!Light - Recreate LHD: Build Site
9:30 AM ET
Hello, World in a New Language
1:00 PM ET
Build and Deploy a Full Stack Web App with AWS
3:00 PM ET
6:00 PM ET
Chrome Dinosaur Game Challenge
8:00 PM ET
1:30 AM ET
3:00 AM ET
12:30 PM ET
Redesign Your Favorite Website
2:30 PM ET
4:00 PM ET
Basics of Blockchain with Horizen
8:00 PM ET
1:30 AM ET
2:00 AM ET
2:30 AM ET
1:00 PM ET
Capital One Intro to Python Pt 1
2:30 PM ET
6:00 PM ET
6:45 PM ET
Jack's "Impromptu" Draw a Blahaj
7:00 PM ET
z/OS Mainframe APIs: We're Always Online
8:30 PM ET
1:30 AM ET
3:00 AM ET
1:00 PM ET
Follow Any Tutorial to Build Something New
2:30 PM ET
7:00 PM ET
Intro to Blockchain - Learning how to SCORE on ICON
9:00 PM ET
1:30 AM ET
Build a Project that Uses a Data Set
9:00 AM ET
Capital One Intro to Python Pt 2
1:00 PM ET
Capital One Intro to Python Pt 3
3:00 PM ET
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
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. Form a guild of hackers 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. Use these 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.
Earn points for yourself and your Guild by completing our challenges throughout Local Hack Day: Build. Points are rewarded based on 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.
Local Hack Day: Build is a week long celebration of hacking. We hope you'll spend Sunday (Jan 10th) through Friday (Jan 15th) completing daily challenges and making friends with your Guildmates. Then for Friday (Jan 15th) through Sunday (Jan 17th), you'll earn points for LHD: Build by attending one of the Member Event Hackathons below.
Everyone is welcome to participate in Local Hack Day regardless of experience level, student status, or age. Each day there will be challenges geared towards beginners, so even if you’ve never coded before, there’s something here for you.
Everyone is welcome at Local Hack Day regardless of their coding experience. Many participants use Local Hack Day as an opportunity to learn some coding skills and network with other beginners. In fact, we have programming and workshops specifically for hackers just starting out!
We want to make sure that MLH Local Hack Day events create a safe and welcoming environment for attendees and organizers. For this reason the MLH Code of Conduct should be followed throughout the duration of each event.
Local Hack Day is organized by Major League Hacking (MLH). MLH is the official global hacker community.
It's free to participate in MLH's Local Hack Day. Grab your laptop and join in on the fun activities and workshops.
Don't worry! We're here to help. Just send an email with your questions to localhackday@mlh.io and we'll get back to you within 2 - 3 business days.
