Complete Online Resources for Hackathon Preparation

The following is a list of useful sites for hackathon preparation.

Most complete list of hackathon events:

Major League Hack (for university students): https://mlh.io/ 

Project inspiration: https://devpost.com/

Up&coming hackthons: https://devpost.com/hackathons

High school hackathons https://hackathons.hackclub.com/

All Hackathons https://allhackathons.com/themes/beginner/

DoraHacks https://dorahacks.io/

https://www.airmeet.com/hub/blog/major-hackathons/

https://www.idtech.com/blog/hackathons-for-beginners

2025 Hackathons list

Verified 2025 hackathon list and details (time and format)

Hackathon events in California

https://www.eventbrite.com/d/united-states--california/hackathon/

Trivalley Hacks https://www.trivalleyhacks.org/

Hackathon in San Jose https://allevents.in/san%20jose/hackathons#

Hayward https://lu.ma/elslsy0w

City of Cupertino https://www.cupertino.gov/Parks-Recreation/Events/Hack-Cupertino

San Joaquin Hackathon https://www.h2ohackathon.org/

Oakland https://oaklandpostonline.com/53608/campus/quackathon-grizzhacks-celebrates-its-seventh-edition/

Agentforce Hackathon by Devpost https://agentforcehackathon.devpost.com/

Hack Illinois https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=hackathon+in+illinois

Chicago Hackathon https://hackathons.hackclub.com/list-of-hackathons-in-chicago

Central Illinois https://www.uis.edu/news/innovation-center-blog/top-hat-hackers-hackathon

IIT Pubic Safety Hackathon https://www.firstnet.gov/newsroom/media/coders-participate-public-safety-hackathon-illinois-institute-technology

Illinois Tech https://www.iit.edu/events/hackrtc

Chicago Innovate https://www.chicagoinnovate.tech/hackathon

Pitch Illinois https://pitchillinois.org/

UT Dallas Hackathon https://hackutd.co/

HackTX https://hacktx.com/

Seattle area https://www.meetup.com/seattle-hackathons/

Bellevue https://www.huskyadapt.me.uw.edu/events/kcls-hackathon

Philadelphia https://drexel.edu/cci/partnerships/corporate/philly-codefest/

AI Summit New York https://newyork.theaisummit.com/features-2024/ai-hackathon

India Hackathon https://www.sih.gov.in/

https://www.analyticsinsight.net/latest-news/top-10-coding-hackathons-that-beginners-to-should-attend-in-2022

https://acehack.uem.edu.in/

Startup India https://www.startupindia.gov.in/content/sih/en/ams-application/application-listing.html

Canada Hack the North https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=hack+the+north

South Florida tech club https://techhubsouthflorida.org/hackathon/

ETH Europe https://ethglobal.com/

AI

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College Hackathon

Cornell https://hackathon.cornell.edu/

MIT AI https://raise.mit.edu/events/global-ai-hackathon-2024/

University of Maine https://calendar.umaine.edu/event/bring-your-own-brain-hackathon-2/2025-03-29/

Wehack UTD https://www.wehackutd.com/

Brasil https://hackathonbrasil.com.br/

https://www.novascholar.education/blog-posts/10-hackathons-for-beginners-to-participate-in

https://www.wearedevelopers.com/en/magazine/383/hackathons-for-beginners

https://blog.ecoism.in/top-10-hackathons-for-beginners-2023/

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Beginner friendly Hackathons

https://www.bestcolleges.com/bootcamps/guides/hackathons-for-beginners/

Beginner friendly Hackathon https://www.lumiere-education.com/post/10-hackathons-for-beginners

https://www.veritasai.com/veritasaiblog/10-best-online-hackathons-for-beginners

https://buildyourfuture.withgoogle.com/programs

https://www.quora.com/Which-hackathons-are-the-most-friendly-for-beginners-at-programming

https://www.collegetransitions.com/blog/hackathon-for-beginners/

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Stanford Law School LLM in law Hackaton

https://law.stanford.edu/event/llm-x-law-hackathon-stanford-5/

AI and cloud Hackathon: https://unstop.com/hackathons

Hack Earth https://www.hackerearth.com/challenges/hackathon/

H2S: Hack to skill https://hack2skill.com/

Reskill Hackathons https://reskilll.com/allhacks

Federal AI General Services Administration https://www.gsa.gov/technology/government-it-initiatives/federal-ai-hackathon

World Climate Research Hackathon https://www.wcrp-esmo.org/activities-and-events/wcrp-global-km-scale-hackathon-2025

Devfolio https://devfolio.co/hackathons

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Girls

https://girlswhocode.com/

Google summer of code https://buildyourfuture.withgoogle.com/programs

Girl Hackathon India https://buildyourfuture.withgoogle.com/programs/girl-hackathon

Patel story https://www.womenofinfluence.ca/2025/03/26/you-need-to-meet-ahana-patel-a-15-year-old-innovator/

Level up https://girldevelopit.com/virtual-hackathon/

https://verso.ac.th/hack/

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Corporate and Government

American Airline https://news.aa.com/news/news-details/2024/Annual-hackathon-paves-path-for-IT-students-to-join-American-Airlines-ID-BK-11/default.aspx

SAS Hackathon https://www.sas.com/en/events/sas-innovate.html

https://www.sas.com/sas/events/hackathon.html G

Walmart https://careers.walmart.com/undergraduate-internships

Google https://cloud.withgoogle.com/next/25

NASA https://data.nasa.gov/

IBM https://www.stocktitan.net/news/IBM/2025-call-for-code-engages-developers-to-build-ai-solutions-that-30ntnqjpi7pi.html

Meta https://www.yahoo.com/news/ai-more-potential-meta-aitx-152437066.html

JP Morgan https://careers.jpmorgan.com/us/en/students/programs/tfsg-hackathons?search=&tags=location__Americas__UnitedStatesofAmerica

SportsPro Hackathon https://hackathon.sportspro.com/

Meta hackathon for veterans https://www.fallin.today/

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Umbrella and platform sites

Best place to find Hackathons https://medium.com/@jonathanallengrant/the-7-best-websites-to-find-a-hackathon-the-hacklife-guide-3e420f2a565b

List of lists https://www.thetechedvocate.org/how-to-find-a-hackathon-in-your-area/

Calendar view in USA https://devitjobs.com/events

Aaqib Ali https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/top-websites-discover-exciting-hackathons-coding-challenges-aaqib-ali-flcmf/

DEVPOST: Home for Hackaton https://devpost.com/

Google Events https://developers.google.com/events

Sprint list https://www.sprint.dev/

Fablecon https://fablecon.com/resources/online-hackathon-for-beginners/

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Hackathon guides

https://hackathon.guide/

Beginner https://www.inspiritai.com/blogs/ai-blog/hackathon-for-beginners-a-guide-to-getting-started-in-2025

Hack NC https://hacknc.com/

How team Agent Halo won in TDX Agentforce https://www.salesforceben.com/how-team-agent-halo-won-100k-at-the-tdx-agentforce-hackathon/

Microsoft blog https://news.microsoft.com/source/features/work-life/hackathon/

https://medium.com/@7594hsj/hackathon-success-guide-from-novice-to-hackathon-expert-97951da28396

https://www.inspiritai.com/blogs/ai-blog/hackathons-for-beginners

https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/tag/hackathon/

First Hackathon

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/navigating-your-first-hackathon-beginners-guide-katya-ryazantseva-3nnvf/

https://www.galvanize.com/blog/how-to-prepare-for-your-first-hackathon/

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Hackathon space

https://www.peerspace.com/plan/hackathon

https://www.spacebase.com/en/san-jose/hackathon/

https://youtu.be/HUqPIgdlYrM?si=isdOom2BibzCidWh

Google Hackathon

30000 dollars in Prize?

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Some low quality links (but for some reason ranked high in Google)

I found a lot of out dated links.

Hackathons by city https://www.hackathon.com/city

Company hackathons: https://www.eventbrite.com/d/online/hackathons/

Hacker earth https://www.hackerearth.com/challenges/hackathon/

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Ideas

https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/project-ideas-for-hackathons/

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Training and schools

https://www.codeninjas.com/

http://stembay.org

First Lego League https://www.firstlegoleague.org/

Bootcamp and job support https://www.hackreactor.com/explore-hack-reactor-coding-bootcamps/?utm_source=Google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_term=learn%20to%20code&utm_campaign=3_NB_Upper&gad_source=1&gclid=CjwKCAjw7pO_BhAlEiwA4pMQvHsKnEF8uqOQk9UgY3S6jAEuX2Z4ooUuFXyYfmkhEzRSt6I1cPFFMhoC86YQAvD_BwE

Angel Hack AngelHack

The stakes get higher when you're competing for a 12 week accelerator and Global Demo Day in SF. You'll not only compete with other students but other 30-40 year olds looking to build a real startup. A few winning teams have formed into startups and have been acquired by companies such as Google.

https://masterclass.hackathon.com/

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Advanced level

Machine Learning Hackathon https://www.analyticsvidhya.com/blog/2020/10/ultimate-beginners-guide-top-10-machine-learning-hackathons/

AI Encode

https://www.encode.club/

ML and AI hackathons

Open Hackathons: https://www.openhackathons.org/s/upcoming-events

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Verified 2025 hackathon lists

Some hackathons are no longer hosted. Here are some that are verified to be active.

Congressional App Challenge, hackathon - October 24, 2024. Link.

Milpitas high school hackathon - in person, May 24, 2025. Link.

United Hack - online, July 11 to July 13, 2025. Link.

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