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We return to you this year for our third round of the HackMIT admissions puzzle! The purpose of the puzzle was to identify motivated…

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After geohashing and NoSQL injection in the first two puzzles, puzzlers confronted had to escape velociraptors using a…

Thanks so much to everyone who came to Blueprint, HackMIT’s high school learnathon and hackathon! It was such a pleasure to see so many bright students working on such cool projects. The teams below were selected through our judging system as this year’s Blueprint winners. Here are their…

Another year, another HackMIT FAQ readers experiment. From May 31 to August 7, we had the following item in HackMIT’s FAQ:

For the past three years, Andreseen Horowitz (a16z) has hosted and run Battle of the Hacks, a 60-person, 24-hour hackathon for hackathon organizers. This year, I had the opportunity to go representing HackMIT, along with my teammates Anthony…

This is a photoblog of behind-the-scenes photos taken at Blueprint! The photos were taken by Anish, and the captions were written by Anish and Claire, HackMIT / Blueprint organizers.

Gavel is an automated end-to-end expo judging system. We’ve used it to automate judging at HackMIT, a 1000-person event with over 200 projects and 100 judges. Dozens of other events have also used Gavel since the software was released in private beta in late 2015.