What is MLH?
MLH is known as Major League Hacking. This platform provides hackathons, meetups and tech events in various domains. It's a very good place to start with beginner-friendly hackathons to advance level. Also monthly hackathons like Global Hack Weeks for 7-8 days.
My experience of the last six months:
Since I am a beginner I always try to do new things. Like it's my passion.
Even sometimes I don't get time myself but able to participate in this various areas. So last September I came across this platform and joined their discord channel.
Link: https://mlh.io/
I started with global hack week in September 2022 and then ran like storms and completed January hack week also. Adding to the point I was in the top 1% of hackers in all of that. Now recently I have participated in GHW February 2023. The team added their specific topic this time called AI/ML week(No web development sessions).
How to participate in GHW?
For that, just need to go to the MLH website and register for it. Select a guild first and start submitting the daily challenges. Every challenge will be updated on the website and surely get mail for that. There are so many listed daily tech sessions and mentorships also. Make sure to set up the Google calendar.
The daily challenges are friendly to everyone.
So my learnings from these challenges are Analysis, monitoring, and data cleaning stuff.
Completed the analysis of Kaggle datasets.
Wix challenges like weather tracking
How to use google sheets efficiently
Started exploring AI training models
Rules and Regulations
The challenges will be submitted in Devpost or the google form(provided). For more clarifications Join the guilds first and network with the other folks. Challenges can be considered on a Solo or team basis mostly. Currently, I've participated solo because I didn't get any members till now. But I would love to collaborate with you all.
The challenges mostly run from 12AM to 8:30 PM (IST) in this time range we need to solve those challenges.
My key takeaways from this challenges
Started managing tasks at a certain time.Reading blogs and documentations are helpful to complete the challenges.Also I got to know about Wix,ML regressions,Github actions and AI models etc.
Today's challenges: https://ghw.mlh.io/challenges
Join the challenge and won the swags.
Some upcoming challenges
https://ghw.mlh.io/schedule
https://ghw.mlh.io/challenges
Game week: https://organize.mlh.io/participants/events/9153-global-hack-week-game-week
API week: https://organize.mlh.io/participants/events/9152-global-hack-week-api-week
Social Good week: https://organize.mlh.io/participants/events/9151-global-hack-week-social-good-week
Thank you 💗