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Creating the Perfect Challenge for Your Hackathon

Creating impactful challenges is key to a successful hackathon, and in this chapter, you will learn how to do this while engaging your audience, employees, and partners at the same time.

We will be using the Dream for Sweden and Dream for Earth campaigns as examples in this chapter. During the course of this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • How to create a great challenge that serves your purpose
  • The challenge categories – a framework for exploration
  • Inviting your audience to find the right challenges
  • Learnings of the dream campaigns
  • What signifies a great challenge?

Throughout this chapter, you will embark on a step-by-step journey to master the art of crafting challenges with ...

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