A collection of challenge based hack-a-thons including student guide, proctor guide, lecture presentations, sample/instructional code and templates.

What, Why and How

• “What the Hack” is a challenge based hackathon format
• Challenges describe high-level tasks and goals to be accomplished
• Challenges are not step-by-step labs
• Attendees work in teams of 3 to 5 people to solve the challenges
• Attendees “learn from” and “share with” each other
• By having to “figure it out”, attendee knowledge retention is greater
• Proctors provide guidance, but not answers to the teams
• Emcees provide lectures & demos to setup challenges & review solutions
• What the Hack can be hosted in-person or virtually via MS Teams

How to Add Your Hack

We welcome all new hacks! The process for doing this is:

• Fork this repo into your own github account
• Create a new branch for your work
• Add a new top level folder using the next number in sequence, eg:
  • 011-BigNewHack
• Within this folder, create two folders, each with two folders with in that looks like this:
  • Host
    • Guides
    • Solutions
  • Student
    • Guides
    • Resources
• The content of each folder should be:
  • Student/Guides: The Student’s Guide
  • Student/Resources: Any template or “starter” files that students may need in challenges
  • Host/Guides: The Proctor’s Guide lives here as well as any Lecture slide decks
  • Host/Solutions: Specific files that the proctors might need that have solutions in them.
• Once your branch and repo have all your content and it formatted correctly, follow the instructions on this page to submit a pull request back to the main repository:
  • https://help.github.com/articles/creating-a-pull-request-from-a-fork/

License

This repository is licensed under MIT license. More info can be found here.

Contributing

We welcome contributions and suggestions. More info can be found here.