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Spend a week hacking with the Major League Hacking (MLH) community at GHW: AI/ML Week!
What is Global Hack Week?
Global Hack Week takes place throughout the year to give you a chance to complete technical challenges, network with the community, enjoy fun live sessions, build technical projects, and make new memories.
We'll have challenges, live technical sessions with MLHers, mini-events galore, and some cool content from our partners! Here’s a sneak peek:
At each Global Hack Week, you can:
⭐ Watch live technical streams
⭐ Participate in skill-building workshops
⭐ Join us for fun activities
⭐ Enter and win swag in raffles
What is AI/ML Week?
Each GHW features a new theme, and this February discussing AI/ML! Throughout the week, we'll offer workshops, technical sessions, and more!
Who is GHW for?
Global Hack Week is for anyone ready to level-up their hacking skills. We welcome all programmers, designers, artists, and hackers from around the globe to join us for these events. Whether this is is day 1 or day 1000 of your hacker journey, we want you to join us!
Can I get swag at this event?
Yes, of course! Each Global Hack Week will feature some amazing 2025 Hackathon Season swag…you’ll have to participate to find out exactly what you’re getting!
What is a Guild? How can I be a part of it?
One of the best parts of our community is that it allows people to meet and make connections with others, regardless of where you live. guilds are smaller communities within Major League Hacking. Whether you come in with a guild or not, you won’t be hacking alone.
Who organizes Global Hack Week?
Global Hack Week is organized by Major League Hacking (MLH). It is our mission to empower hackers worldwide by providing them with the tools, resources, and opportunities they need to succeed.
Requirements
Your challenge submission must be completed within the submission period.
When relevent, your code must be available in some sort of public repository.
If you're continuing work on an old project, you MUST specify in your Devpost what was worked on 1) Before this day of Global Hack Week and 2) During this day of Global Hack Week.
Prizes
Handwritten Digit Recognition
Train a simple machine learning model using the MNIST dataset to recognize handwritten numbers and submit it to mlh.link/GHWDevpost
Document Summarizer
Work on an AI-powered hack that takes long articles, research papers, or news and summarizes them in simple terms.
AI for Hackers
Build AI-powered hacks that empower the hacker community!
Build your first recommendation system
Follow the building a recommendation system track and submit your hack to mlh.link/GHWDevpost
Create your own AI Chatbot
Follow the building AI Chatbots track this week and submit your hack to mlh.link/GHWDevpost
Leverage Sentiment Analysis
Using sentiment analysis can come in handy for many types of hacks, from understanding how customers view a product to determining effective ways of communicating with your audience. Explore this topic and submit your hack on our Devpost!
Hack with GenAI
LLMs has been all over our feeds lately, and we want to see what you can do with it! utilize publicly available Generative AI APIs (like those from OpenAI, Anthropic, Hugging Face, Llama, IBM Watson, or Google Gemini) to develop a unique and functional application.
This could include:
1. AI-powered creative tools: Design an app that allows users to generate unique marketing copy, translate languages in real-time, or create personalized learning experiences.
2. Intelligent assistants and automation: Build a chatbot that can provide insightful customer support, or a system that automates complex tasks using natural language processing.
3. Next-generation content creation platforms: Develop a platform that empowers users to generate high-quality images, write different kinds of creative text formats, or compose original music with AI assistance.
Getting Started: Setting Up TinyMCE
Start by integrating TinyMCE into your web application, setting up the foundation for your email editor with help from Windsurf AI.
Check out - https://mlh.link/ghwaiml225-tinymce-challenge1
Your Pair Programmer: Sign Up for an AI Code Editor
Choose between Windsurf AI or Cursor AI and see how an AI-powered coding assistant can speed up your workflow.
Check out - https://mlh.link/ghwaiml225-tinymce-challenge2
Templates + Merge Tags
Combine the power of predefined email templates with dynamic merge tags like {{FirstName}} or {{OrderNumber}}.
With Windsurf AI or Cursor AI, create reusable HTML structures and dynamic placeholders to personalize emails and add them to a TinyMCE Editor.
Check out - https://mlh.link/ghwaiml225-tinymce-challenge3
Inline CSS for Email Compatibility
Ensure your emails are visually consistent across all email clients by adding inline CSS.
Use Windsurf AI or Cursor AI to help you craft clean, email-safe CSS rules.
Check out - https://mlh.link/ghwaiml225-tinymce-challenge4
Integrating OpenAI with TinyMCE
Elevate your email editor by connecting OpenAI to generate subject lines, personalized greetings, and content suggestions—all within TinyMCE.
Bonus - if you use a coding assistant to implement this.
Check out - https://mlh.link/ghwaiml225-tinymce-challenge5
Implement Login and Logout with your Auth0 SDK of choice
Choose one of the Auth0 Quick Start guides for your language or framework of choice and follow the instructions for creating user-facing login and logout for your application.
Check out - https://mlh.link/ghwaiml225-auth0-challenge3
Customize your login box
Follow Auth0's step by step guide to learn how to customize the color, font, and logo of your login form.
Check out - https://mlh.link/ghwaiml225-auth0-challenge4
Devpost Achievements
Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:
Judges
Major League Hacking
Judging Criteria
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None
Global Hack Weeks exists to give you a chance to learn, build, and share in a non-competitive environment. There is no judging or winner at GHWs.
Questions? Email the hackathon manager
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