I aim to go to as many hackathons as I can – they’re an awesome way of trying out new tech and meeting new people with similar interests! A selection of my submitted projects are on my Devpost profile. Here’s a definitive list of what I’ve been up to.
Hackathons attended in 2018 (2)
HackCity 18
2018-02-17 to 2018-02-18
Location: London, England
Night-time volunteer for the organising team. Ensured safety of venue and participants as well as general cleaning up and helping people with Javascript problems.
IC Hack 18
2018-01-27 to 2018-01-28
Location: London, England
Worked on final year project and OmniDash.
Hackathons attended in 2017 (11)
Junction 2017
2017-11-24 to 2016-11-26
Location: Helsinki, Finland
Made Spotify on the blockchain.
Lauzhack 2017
2017-11-11 to 2017-11-12
Location: Lausanne, Switzerland
Worked on the Scrapbook offline bookmark manager, built a basic Chrome extension as well as a connected electron app for managing the store.
Hackference 2017
2017-10-20 to 2017-10-21
Location: Birmingham, UK
Got a rare opportunity to take part in the “last” Hackference. Worked on my Hatch hackathon portal.
Hack The North 2017
2017-09-15 to 2017-09-17
Location: Waterloo, Canada
Second visit to Waterloo for Hack The North. Unsuccessfully tried to build an app that can read car parking signs. Made new friends regardless
Anvil Hack III
2017-04-22 to 2017-04-23
Location: London, UK
Didn’t really hack, just worked on my coursework projects (uni work comes first, okay!)
MLH Prime Europe Regional
2017-04-01 to 2017-04-02
Location: London, UK
Night shift volunteer for MLH’s own hackathon. Duties mainly included running the hardware lab and assisting hackers with issues they had over the course of the night.
HackCity 2017
2017-03-25 to 2017-03-26
Location: London, UK
Night shift volunteer for the first hackathon at City, University Of London. Duties included distributing food and collecting waste, as well as some ghntoring.
StudentHack V
2017-03-10 to 2017-03-12
Location: Manchester, UK
Used an IOT coffee mug to display Transport For London service updates. BrewTube
HackUPC Winter 2017
2017-03-03 to 2017-03-05
Location: Barcelona, Spain
Created an Alexa skill for controlling your browser, Chromelexa.
IC Hack 17
2017-02-04 to 2017-02-05
Location: London, UK
Behind-the-scenes volunteer who assisted with checkin, crowd control, and hacker quality of life (distributing food was a big part of this!)
Hack Cambridge: Recurse
2017-01-28 to 2017-01-29
Location: Cambridge, UK
Built a crowd-based game using Unity and Pusher. Also got to take in the sights of Cambridge (again).
Hackathons attended in 2016 (6)
Porticode
2016-12-10 to 2016-12-11
Location: London, UK
Mentored, helped out at workshops and assisted hackers over the weekend.
Junction 2016
2016-11-25 to 2016-11-26
Location: Helsinki, Finland
Created an Internet-connected letterbox during my first visit to Scandinavia – MailSnail.
Lauzhack 2016
2016-11-19 to 2016-11-20
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Supported the hackathon by volunteering and mentoring over the weekend.
Hack The North 2016
2016-09-16 to 2015-09-18
Location: Waterloo, ON, Canada
First international hackathon! Met some great new friends and build a silly but fun website that matched GIFs and music.
Hack London III
2016-02-27 to 2016-02-28
Location: London, UK
Built Git++, a plugin for the Atom editor to allow theuser to commit code using hand gestures. We also won the GitHub developer prize!
Hack Cambridge
2016-01-30 to 2016-01-31
Location: Cambridge, UK
LingualMingle, a chat app for penpals. Again we did not know very much Node.JS and left with more knowledge than code.
Hackathons attended in 2015 (1)
HackNotts 2015
2015-11-28 to 2015-11-29
Location: Nottingham, UK
First ever hackathon. Didn’t really build anything meaningful because I was trying to understand Node.JS.