Celebrate Local Hack Day with MLH and GitHub on December 1

Join us on December 1, for Major League Hacking’s (MLH) 5th annual Local Hack Day, a global hackathon and celebration of learning, building, and sharing. With more than 200 locations around the world, this is the perfect excuse for you to gather with your local tech community or join a new one.

Hackathons are learning-focused invention marathons where participants dream up fun, interesting projects and work in small teams to bring them to life during the event. Your project could be anything from a website to a mobile app to a robot…and beyond! When you’re not working on your project there are also plenty of other things to do attend educational workshops, make friends, or share what you’re learning.

You don’t need to be an expert to participate in Local Hack Day, either. All experience levels are welcome, regardless of whether you’re a first-timer who is learning to code or you attend hackathons regularly. All you need to do is find a location near you from the Local Hack Day website and register.

Everyone who attends a Local Hack Day gets access to the GitHub Education Pack, which has tons of free developer tools to help you build an awesome project (along with lots of GitHub swag). Some of the locations will even have a GitHub Campus Expert available to help mentor participants.

This is MLH’s 5th year organizing Local Hack Day, and GitHub is proud to be hosting the event for the 3rd year in a row. In 2017, the event brought out more than 6,000 participants across 34 countries and 236 cities around the world. This year’s event is shaping up to be the biggest one yet.

Spread the word about Local Hack Day by using the hashtag #LocalHackDay on Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram. We can’t wait to see you there, happy hacking!