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Hackathon

Hackathon

Min number of participants 2
Age 16+ yrs.
Safety support by adult Not required
Min duration 2 h
Cost None (Free)
Environment Indoor

Collaborate intensively with a small team over 24 to 48 hours to design, build, and present a working software prototype — hackathons compress the full product development cycle into a single weekend and reward creativity under pressure.

The Essentials

  • Pick a scope you can finish in the time given rather than your most ambitious idea, since a working demo of something small beats an unfinished version of something big.
  • Settle on roles within the first hour, since teams that argue about who does what for too long lose hours they can't get back.
  • Build the core feature first and add polish only if time remains, since judges see what's on screen, not what you meant to build.
  • Commit code frequently to version control, since losing hours of work to a crashed laptop is one of the most common hackathon disasters.
  • Prepare your pitch and demo separately from your coding time, since a great project with a rushed, confusing presentation scores worse than a simpler one explained clearly.
  • Sleep in shifts if the event runs overnight, since exhausted teammates make more bugs than progress in the final hours.

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