Oct 25, 2018Meet the team: InternalNext up, introducing our Internal Team. Internal makes it all happen, from our team retreat, to our workshops, to our apartment crawl! If you’ve ever been to one of our workshops, they organized that. Similarly, our fundraisers and other events! If it concerns HackMcGill and our on-campus presence, it concerns…3 min read
Oct 10, 2018Meet the team: SponsorshipIntroducing the Sponsorship Team! They’re responsible for (big surprise) getting sponsors for HackMcGill, and by doing so they ensure that our flagship event, McHacks, is free for hackers. Their work also provides networking and mentorship to hackers from industry professionals. They find new sponsors and keep our current sponsors happy…Education4 min read
Oct 3, 2018Meet the team: CommunicationsIntroducing the Communications team aka the voice behind HackMcGill. The Coms team is in charge of all communications; pretty self explanatory. We’re glad you found us on: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Medium, etc. It means we’re doing our job right. Our work is centered around creating a public brand for HackMcGill…Hackathon3 min read
Feb 11, 2016McHacks 2016 JudgingTL;DR: McHacks is happening very soon, and we wanted to publish an unnecessarily long Medium post about prizes at hackathons, why perfect democracy doesn’t work when it comes to judging, our new judging system for this year, and bobcats. …Hackathons4 min read
Oct 29, 2015Making Games With Unity — session with Zander Von ChickenbootsZander Chickenboots [1][2] recently gave a Unity tutorial for HackMcGill. Check it out. [1] Alias for… no one knows. [2] Also a musician for a Montreal-based band.Game Development1 min read
Oct 2, 2015#learn-to-codeHackMcGill holds coding tutorials for the McGill community fairly often, where someone talks for a ~short period of time on the basics of web dev, Android dev and Python code golf. We call these Hack101s. While these are awesome, we face the classic problem of engaging and retaining users —…Programming2 min read
