Django is a commonly used web framework based on Python, used and loved by developers around the world. But, wouldn’t it be cool to share a website you made using Django with the people around you? …

Many machine learning models only allow you to train using one target attribute. Enter Clarifai’s Workflow feature: it allows you to use up to five different models to analyze an image. If you don’t already know what Clarifai is, it’s a powerful computer vision AI platform. One of its many…

Never heard of hackathons? Have heard of them, but don’t know what they entail? Interested in attending them, but don’t know how to get started? If you answered yes to any of these questions, keep reading! In this guide, I’ll be breaking down the experience of a hackathon, what you…

Since sophomore year of high school, I’ve been extremely lucky to have had opportunities to attend hackathons for free in multiple countries, states, and cities. How often do you see a high school student flying across the country for a weekend? What about a college student ditching their dead week…

“What’s your name, and what hackathon are you organizing?” I heard these two questions being frequently asked at Hackcon III, a conference for student hackathon organizers - where those new can learn about running hackathons, and where the experienced can come to share their knowledge with the next generation.

For the past 7 months, I’ve been organizing Los Altos Hacks as the Sponsorship Director. It’s been a crazy journey. Procrastinating and panicking, sacrificing sleep, forgetting to respond to emails. Despite everything negative that happened, I’ve learned so much and developed so many new skills. I’m proud (and pleasantly surprised)…

I’ve started walking down a path that was once unrealistic to my 2014 self. In previous years, I wasn’t particularly motivated after I quit piano, but now, it’s interesting to reflect back to see where my goals and desires have brought me. Some stuff that happened Over the summer, I attended a session of…

Lessons Learned — On the flight to MHacks 6, I was asked to organize a HS Hackers Meetup by one of the cofounders of hackEDU, Jonathan Leung. I had never hosted a meetup at a hackathon before, much less been to one, but I figured, “Why the hell not?” For statistics, we had…

Hello, World. I’m Selynna Sun, and I am the vice president of the Hack Club at Los Altos High School in California. I started coding roughly two years ago, after I attended my first hackathon, HSHacks. …