Hackathon
What Is a Hackathon? How Do You Win One?
What is a hackathon, how does it work and what do judges look for? A step-by-step guide to winning, from forming a team to a 48-hour plan and your demo.
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Guides
Get ready to compete
From building a team to pitching to the jury: practical guides to help you stand out at hackathons, ideathons and datathons.
Ideathon
How to Pitch at an Ideathon: A Guide to Convincing the Jury
At an ideathon, the pitch wins as much as the idea. An ideathon pitch guide covering problem validation, a 10-slide structure, time management and Q&A.
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Datathon
How to Prepare for a Datathon: A Roadmap to Success in Data Competitions
A prep guide for datathons and Kaggle-style competitions: the skills you need, your first hour, validation strategy, data leakage, model choice and presenting.
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Getting started
Hackathon, Ideathon, Creathon and Datathon: What's the Difference, and Which One Suits You?
The differences between hackathons, ideathons, creathons, datathons and game jams, the expected outputs and the skills you need. A guide to applying to your first one.
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How it works
AI keeps the competition calendar, so you can focus on your project.
1. The web is scanned
Claude runs live web searches across TEKNOFEST, Coderspace, Youthall, universities and municipalities, as well as global platforms like Devpost, MLH and Kaggle.
2. Details are structured
Announcements are turned into consistent records with title, organizer, deadline, event date, location and prize fields; duplicate records are merged.
3. The calendar updates itself
Deadlines are compared with today's date on every visit. Expired competitions move to the archive automatically, and those in their last days are flagged and rise to the top of the list.
When a scan finishes, the results go straight into the list and the scan button locks until the next scan window; meanwhile everyone sees the same up-to-date list and API costs stay under control.