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An Expandable Explanation into Hackathon Organizing

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As a hackathon organizer, there’s always hundreds of different things on your plate. As I was organizing Assemble , I wrote in my journal: I've got 500 things in “the back of my head”. I just keep stuffing things to do back there! Running a hackathon, there’s no one telling you what to do and when to do it like there is in school. Now that’s great and all, but it means I’m stressing about forgetting things and feel like absolute chaos all day every day. Organising Epoch was even more chaotic, as shown in this BTS video: Anyhow! The goal of this post is help you cover the basics of your hackathon – food, venue, sponsorship etc. – and give you more time to focus on making the experience unique and magical. Getting going can be a daunting task, you’re priority in the first few days of organizing a hackathon should be getting yourself setup to be successful. You’ve probably heard of the four Ws before: who, what, when and why? At the moment, don’t worry about the what, just ask yourself:

An Expandable Explanation into Hackathon Organizing An Expandable Explanation into Hackathon Organizing By @sampoder Tuesday, 13th December As a :hackathon organizer, there’s always hundreds of different things on your plate. As I was organizing :Assemble , I wrote in my journal : I've got 500 things in “the back of my head”. I just keep stuffing things to do back there! Running a hackathon, there’s no one telling you what to do and when to do it like there is in school. Now that’s great and all, but it means I’m stressing about forgetting things and feel like absolute chaos all day every day.

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