Please note, not all challenges are submitted on Devpost. If you don't see the challenge you're submitting for here, check the live site and your inbox to see where you should claim your points. 

This week-long Devpost page is for submission of any tracks completed throughout the week. If you are looking to submit a daily challenge, head to https://hackp.ac/DailyDevpost! 

What is Global Hack Week AI/ML Week?

Global Hack Week is a week-long hacker festival. You can expect to complete challenges, hear about BIG community announcements, chat at hacker hangouts, enjoy fun live sessions, build technical projects, and make new memories.

You are in for an adventure featuring workshops, fun mini-events, challenges, panels, and more. These will help you to earn experience points no matter what level of hacking you are at, whether it’s writing your first lines of code or creating a multi-faceted project.

We'll have challenges, live technical sessions with MLHers, mini-events galore, and some cool content from our partners! Here’s a sneak peek:

  • Beginner-friendly workshops

  • Challenges for all difficulty levels and all topics such as design, social, technical, entrepreneurial

  • Hacker-run guilds

  • Talks from friends of MLH and our partners

  • Live sessions run by MLHers

  • And maybe an appearance from Totally Not Ryan (TNR)

Can I get swag at this event?

Yes, of course! Beginners Week will feature some amazing 2023 Hackathon Season swag…you’ll have to participate to find out exactly what you’re getting! 

What is a Guild? How can I be a part of it?

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. guilds are smaller communities within Major League Hacking. Whether you come in with a guild or not, you won’t be hacking alone.

Who organized Global Hack Week?

Global Hack Week is organized by Major League Hacking (MLH). It is our mission to empower hackers worldwide by providing them with the tools, resources, and opportunities they need to succeed.

Requirements

Your challenge submission must be completed within the submission period.

When relevent, your code must be available in some sort of public repository. 

If you're continuing work on an old project, you MUST specify in your Devpost what was worked on 1) Before this day of Global Hack Week and 2) During this day of Global Hack Week.  

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Prizes

6 non-cash prizes
Represent a dataset (of your choice) pictorially
1 winner

Represent a dataset (of your choice) pictorially using any data visualization library in the programming language of your choice. Create any of the following:
Line graph
Bar chart
Histogram
Heatmaps

Leverage Sentiment Analysis
1 winner

Using Sentiment analysis can come in handy for many types of hacks from understanding how customers view a product to determining effective ways of communicating with your audience. Explore this topic and Submit your hack on our Devpost!

Create a Voice-Based project
1 winner

Can you hear me? For this challenge, we want you to create a hack that’s powered by your voice. It could be a game, speech-to-text bot, or anything else you can think of. Don’t yell for the Devpost, it’s right here.

Train a Text recognition model
1 winner

Train a text recognition model that extracts textual information from images using the Tesseract module. Use any image of your choice for this challenge. Upload the code to a GitHub repository and share it with us on our daily devpost.

Follow Any Tutorial to Build Something New
1 winner

Getting started in technology isn’t easy, but luckily there are so many tutorials made by community members to help you get started with any new skill. Pick out any tutorial to build something, and show it off on Devpost. If you enjoyed the tutorial, share it with other hackers on Discord.

Create a Browser Extension
1 winner

Many of us have browser extensions we rely on. Make one of your own to help make your web-surfing experience better. Share with us on our Devpost.

Devpost Achievements

Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:

Judges

Major League Hacking

Major League Hacking

Judging Criteria

  • None

Questions? Email the hackathon manager

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