Major League Hacking

Major League Hacking's official logo.

Abbreviation| MLH
Founded| 2013
Founder| Mike Swift, Jonathan Gottfried
Type| B-Corporation
Headquarters| Manhattan, New York City, United States

Region

| United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Europe, Asia, Oceania

Key people

| Mike Swift, Jonathan Gottfried, Nick Quinlan

Major League Hacking, officially abbreviated as MLH, is a company that operates a league for student hackathons.

Founded in 2013 by former developer evangelists Mike Swift (formerly of SendGrid) and Jonathan Gottfried (formerly of Twilio), Major League Hacking initially provided support for student-run university hackathons in North America.[1] In April 2014, Major League Hacking announced their first international expansion into United Kingdom and later Mexico and Europe in August 2014 and January 2015 respectively.[2][3][4]

In March 2016, it became a Certified B-Corporation.[5]

## Contents

* 1 League History
* 2 Structure
* 3 References
* 4 External links

## League History[edit]

Season  | Region  | Start Date  | End Date  | Events  | Countries  | Season Winner

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Fall 2013  | North America  | 6 September 2013  | 13 October 2013  | 5  | 1  | University of Maryland, College Park
Spring 2014  | North America  | 17 January 2014  | 27 July 2014  | 38  | 2  | N/A
Fall 2014  | North America  | 30 August 2014  | 6 December 2014  | 36  | 2  | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Fall 2014  | Europe  | 4 October 2014  | 7 December 2014  | 10  | 1  | University of Manchester
Spring 2015  | North America  | 10 January 2015  | 16 August 2015  | 60  | 3  | University of Waterloo
Spring 2015  | Europe  | 7 February 2015  | 28 June 2015  | 18  | 7  | King's College London
Fall 2015  | North America  | 7 August 2015  | 29 November 2015  | 52  | 3  | Rutgers University
Fall 2015  | Europe  | 2 October 2015  | 20 December 2015  | 14  | 6  | University of Manchester
Spring 2016  | North America  | 15 January 2016  | 29 May 2016  | 91  | 3  | University of Waterloo
Spring 2016  | Europe  | 30 January 2016  | 15 May 2016  | 25  | 8  | University of Edinburgh
2017  | North America  | 27 August 2016  | \-  | 163  | 3  | Georgia Institute of Technology[6][7]
2017  | Europe  | 7 October 2016  | \-  | 36  | 10  | University of Manchester
2019  | North America  | August 2018  | July 2019  | 185  | 3  | University of Toronto[8]

## Structure[edit]

Major League Hacking works with independently run university hackathons and provides them with various benefits such as the MLH Hardware Lab, Code of Conduct, eligibility for Season Rankings and Event Support.[9] At the end of every season, it formulates a winner of the League based on participation and prizes and organizes an awards ceremony at their school where the MLH Hacker Cup is provided to the school.

Typically, there would be two hackathon seasons per region per year: Fall and Spring. The Fall Season would be between late August and early December and The Spring Season would be between early January and mid May.[10] In August 2016, Major League Hacking announced it would instead have a single, year-long season beginning late August and ending in mid May to be more aligned with the academic year.

## References[edit]

1. ^ "The Official 2014 Spring Season Hackathon Schedule". Major League Hacking. Retrieved 2017-02-14.
2. ^ "MLH is Coming to the United Kingdom". Major League Hacking News. 2014-04-04. Retrieved 2017-02-14.
3. ^ "Mexican Hackathons Come to MLH: La Liga Mexicana de Hackatones". Major League Hacking News. 2014-08-25. Retrieved 2017-02-14.
4. ^ "MLH Comes to Europe for Spring 2015". Major League Hacking News. 2015-01-19. Retrieved 2017-02-14.
5. ^ "Major League Hacking (MLH) | B Corporation". www.bcorporation.net. Retrieved 2017-02-14.
6. ^ "Georgia Institute of Technology Wins the 2017 MLH North American Hackathon Season". Major League Hacking News. 2017-10-13. Retrieved 2018-03-12.
7. ^ "We Can Hack That: Georgia Tech Takes First Place in Hackathon Competition | College of Computing". www.cc.gatech.edu. Retrieved 2018-03-12.
8. ^ "University of Toronto Wins the Official 2019 North America MLH Hackathon Season". Major League Hacking News. 2019-09-09. Retrieved 2020-07-24.
9. ^ "Become a MLH Member Event". Major League Hacking. Retrieved 2017-02-14.
10. ^ "The Official 2014 Fall Season Hackathon Schedule". Major League Hacking.

## External links[edit]

* MLH Website