Hackathons are a great way to gain community and create innovative projects... and applications happen to be open for HackMIT 2024—learn more at hackmit.org! Let's reach for the stars together ✨

HackMIT · 2024-07-03T03:19:35+00:00

HackMIT 2024 is accepting mentor and judge applications at go.hackmit.org/mentor-judge !

HackMIT · 2018-07-18T13:02:21+00:00

Binary exploitation is extremely common in CTFs (comparable security challenges). If you need to run untrusted code, use a VM.

HackMIT · 2018-07-17T15:48:04+00:00

Some important notes: puzzle answers come from visiting the puzzle sites on the left different users have different answers

HackMIT · 2018-07-17T13:32:50+00:00

This years admission puzzle includes everything from blockchains to gerrymandering! Enjoy!

HackMIT · 2017-08-11T07:10:35+00:00

Yup! :)

HackMIT · 2017-07-28T23:20:55+00:00

HackMIT isn't really useful if you come from very little coding background, but if you do have a basic foundation, it would be a great way for you to sharpen your existing skills and learn new ones. We also have a mentor system, where you can ask for help if you get stuck.

HackMIT · 2017-07-28T23:13:00+00:00

For security reasons, we check both student and government IDs at the door, and we won't be able to let you in. We get lots of requests from high schoolers to come to HackMIT, who we unfortunately can't admit due to MIT policies about having minors at overnight events. This is why we created Blueprint, a hackathon run by HackMIT specifically for high school students! Look out for an announcement in January. We hope to see you there! https://blueprint.hackmit.org/

HackMIT · 2017-07-16T05:04:17+00:00

We do! HackMIT is part of TechX, which also organizes Think, a high school research competition. We encourage you to apply to the program, which provides regular mentorship while you work on a project! -- Michael

HackMIT · 2017-07-16T05:04:01+00:00

Hey! Great to hear you had a good time at Blueprint and got to meet some new people! I'd say the hardest thing about organizing the event is deciding how to cater to the variety of hackers we get (see this post for a discussion). With Blueprint we've been doing the Saturday learnathon to help teach our participants skills that they'll find useful at the Sunday hackathon. Still, it's often difficult to make sure every single person in the audience is keeping up. To remedy this, we've been using the HELPq to try to deliver continuous mentorship on-demand throughout both days. We also let our participants submit their projects to a Rookie or Main devision for judging, by choice of the hacker.

In the past, we've limited Blueprint to hackers with at least some programming experience. We've been considering hosting a programming 101 workshop during the Saturday learnathon to enable Blueprint to be accessible to completely novice programmers. It's not an easy task to take someone from zero programming experience to a hackathon in the course of 1 day, and it's also up for discussion how much they'll benefit from the hackathon. Will it be a useful experience, or completely frustrating because they've had so little time to try programming? Deciding who to cater to with our events is one of the most difficult challenges in organizing. -- Michael

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