Luddy Hackathon

Luddy Hackathon - Create. Innovate. Lead.

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Welcome! The Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering will be hosting a Luddy Hackathon from April 4th - April 6th. We will begin on April 4th at 3:00 pm. The theme is to create, innovate, and lead. This is the Fourth edition of the Luddy Hackathon hosted by us, and this time we have it open to all technologies. Websites, software programs, mobile apps, games, and AI models are all eligible to be submitted.

Event details

When: April 4th to April 6th, 2024, 3:00 PM – 9:00 PM EDT

Where: Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering, 700 North Woodlawn Avenue, Bloomington, 47408 - campus map -

Schedule

April 4th, 2025

3:00 PM - Registration Luddy Hall Welcome Desk

We will be registering participants. Those waitlisted will be registered after 4:00 pm if maximum capacity has not been reached.

5:00 PM - Opening Ceremony (Dorsey Learning Center)

Our opening ceremony begins with an introduction of all of the Luddy staff and student leaders involved. We will also introduce cases for the students to decide upon.

7:30 PM - Dinner

Dinner is available to all participants in the Community Center (Luddy Hall 1006).

7:30 PM - Networking Social

After Opening Ceremony, join a team and select a case to work on! Rooms 1104, 0117, and 1019 are available for students work. Each room is dedicated to each case.

8:00 PM - End of day one

This is the deadline to finalize teams & the case each team will work on. (For sponsored cases)

April 5th, 2025

10:00 AM - Brunch

Luddy Hall 1006

11:00 AM - Speaker Session #1

Our Guest Speaker will discuss their work and answer any available questions.

2:00 PM - Speaker Session #2

Our Guest Speaker will discuss their work and answer any available questions.

4:00 PM - Networking Event

7:30 PM - Dinner

Luddy Hall 1006

April 6th, 2025

10:00 AM - Brunch

Luddy Hall 1006

12:00 PM - Workshop

Hands on Workshop Session

3:30 PM - Deadline for Submissions

This is the deadline for all participants to submit their solutions, so submit them before the deadline.

4:30 PM - Judging Panel

For three hours, teams will be called to present their case to three judges and will be assigned to each judge separately.

5:00 PM - Team-Building Activity

There will be a team-building activity in Luddy!

6:00 PM - Dinner

Dinner will be served in the Community Room (Luddy Hall 1006).

8:00 PM - Closing Ceremony

We will announce the winners for each case in Dorsey Hall (Luddy Hall 1106), along with some submissions. We will also make some final concluding statements to end the hackathon.

Frequently Asked Questions

A hackathon is an event where students "hack" together and create an app, website, game, etc. in 24-48 hours. There will be no malicious "hacking".

Yes! Food will be provided for the duration of the event. We will also have swag and prizes!

The event is in person.

The event is located in the Luddy Building at 700 N Woodlawn Avenue. You can park in the Forrest Ave Parking Garage or in the Fee Lane Parking Garage.
Review the Parking Map. Please reach out to event staff to receive your parking permit.

This event is open to any students.

It is beginner friendly, with workshops to help you learn during the event, and mentors available to help you as you work on your project.\

Attendees must be at least 13 years old due to child privacy laws. If under 18, you can attend, but will need to fill out a liability form from the university.

You can be on teams of up to 4. We will have a team building activity right after opening ceremony if you need to find team members.

We are not able to provide travel reimbursements at this time.

Your laptop, charger, headphones, deodorant, pillow/blanket.

You cannot start until after opening ceremony. You may come up with ideas, but are not allowed to start coding. You cannot work on a previous project, but can use frameworks if you clearly credit them in your readme and differentiate what you made vs what you used.

As many as you want.

No, you can leave and come back if you would prefer to go to bed.

We will post the schedule closer to the event. There will be workshops and activities to take a break and meet other hackers and our wonderful sponsors.

We do not have hardware available, but you are welcome to bring your own. Due to building fire codes, please do not bring soldering kits.

We will send out acceptances 3 days before the event. If you need to know before then to book travel, please reach out to our team for an early review. Applications will be closing once we reach the maximum amount of hackers we can support, but we will have a waitlist the day of the event for any local hackers who want to fill the spots of any accepted hackers who do not end up attending.

Reach out to us! lsavares@iu.edu

Email us at lsavares@iu.edu