How to Win a Hackathon

A sponsor’s perspective This blogpost is written on the heels of a few amazing weekends spent knee-deep in students in Toronto and Los Angeles at Hack Canada and LA Hacks, engaging almost 2000 students in person in total. Managing a sponsor track, I have some thoughts on good ways to present yourselves when angling your project towards a sponsor prize. For those not as familiar with how student hackathons work, they are usually comprised of an organized weekend populated by college undergrads (o