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How to Organize an Impactful Hackathon
By Love Dager
In this chapter, you will learn all of the technical details of running a hackathon; this includes all the relevant communication needed to make sure everyone knows all the important information, what platforms to use to manage the hacker teams, the mentors, the jury members, and the submitted solutions, and last but not least, how to manage the scoring procedure. This chapter will also cover how to set up the jury and jury criteria for a successful hackathon.
In this chapter, we will look into the following topics:
- Creating diverse teams
- Hackathon platforms
- Submission and evaluation
- Online hackathon versus In Real Life (IRL) hackathon
- Jury process and setup
- Opening, closing, and prize ...
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