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Why Do You Need To Conduct Online Hackathons?
Engage with Campus Talent
Hackathons create strong brand visibility in your target campuses
Hire the best talent
Hackathons help you hire problem solvers and best coders
Innovate with best minds
Crowd-source fresh ideas and solve challenges
Engage your workforce
Create virtual challenges among your employees
Virtual Hackathons Help Increase Your Onboarding Rate With Campus Hiring
Coding Hackathons
Assess innovation and problem solving
Case Study Competitions
Assess business acumen and problem-solving
Innovative Ideathons
Brainstorm with the best minds to find fresh ideas
Organize Online Hackathons to Hire the Best Talent With High Brand Visibility
Grab the best minds by reaching out to a large set of participants with Remote Hackathons
Reach out to a wide range
of candidates
Assess domain understanding, business acumen & coding prowess
Assess situational judgment
and teamwork
Conduct Virtual Hackathons To Crowdsource the Brightest Ideas
Discover
Identify an overall organizational problem and convert it into a challenge
Ideate
Crowd-source ideas to solve problems
Plan
Align the ideas to strategic goals and come up with new solutions
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Engage Your Workforce with Our Online Hackathon Platform
Nurture problem-solving skills
Foster cross-team collaboration
Foster internal innovation
Personalized Event Page
to increase candidate's experience and engagement
Quick Scheduling
of tasks across one single dashboard
Seamless Collaboration
of organizers, participants, and judges
Leadership Board
provides live updates and tracks top performers
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Mercer | Mettl Is The Best Choice To Conduct Campus and Corporate Hackathons
Expert Consultation
We help you set-up and guide you throughout the process
24*7 Customer Support
We provide a quick resolution to all kinds of client issues
Rich Question Bank
We offer a wide range of question bank for Coding and Case study Simulators
Frequently Asked Questions(FAQs)
1. What is an online hackathon?
An online hackathon is a digital event that brings together people, especially from a tech background with similar interests, to innovate, brainstorm, and solve various predefined challenges within a specified time frame. The aim of an online hackathon is often to create a working solution or prototype of a product or service.
2. How do I run a virtual hackathon?
Here is a step-by-step guide to run a virtual hackathon:
Conceptualize the event concerning the themes, objectives, challenges and stages.
Configure an online platform that allows all event-related execution on a single dashboard.
Market the event through social media outreach and email campaigns. Invite participants to create teams, strategize and collaborate.
Review submission on different parameters and, based on it, automatically calculate results.
Create a live leadership board for transparency.
Undertake a post-event analytics to host an even better hackathon next time.
3. What is the benefit of hackathon?
The benefits of hackathons are:
Crowdsource ideas-
Hackathons serve as a playground for new people and technologies to step in and innovate.
Create a strong employer brand-
Emerge as the voice of innovation and change with strong brand recall.
Hire the best talent-
Shorten the recruitment process from a couple of weeks to a few days.
Engage with your employees
by fostering cross-team collaboration, inclusivity and internal innovation.
Accelerate the product roadmap
by accessing multiple working prototypes in a short period.
4. How do I start a successful hackathon?
A successful hackathon commences with ideation and ends with execution. Once you have clarity about your hackathon's objective, you can ideate themes, challenges, stages, participants, judges, and every other requirement. Choose a hackathon platform that manages your hackathon's execution hassles such as setting up a personalized and interactive landing page, seamless participant and judge experience, marketing support, easy review of submissions and post-event analytics.
5. What is a virtual hackathon?
A virtual hackathon is a digital event that brings together people, especially from the tech background with similar interests, to innovate, brainstorm and solve predefined challenges within a specified time frame. A virtual hackathon usually aims to create a working solution or prototype of a product or service. A common understanding of hackathon participants is limited to coders and analysts. Yet a more unorthodox approach can bring together quantitative and qualitative minds, opening your virtual hackathons/ideathons to problem-solvers in general.
6. How do I organize my hackathon online?
Online hackathons are the easiest to organize. All you need is to partner with an online hackathon platform, providing a single dashboard with features to set up an event landing page, offering instructions about challenges and stages. The platform must market your event to invite your target participants, enable participants to create teams and collaborate. It must allow the judges to easily review participant submissions and announce winners. The right online hackathon platform with the requisite features is half the battle won in organizing your event.
7. How do you conduct a hackathon?
Here is a step-by-step plan to conduct a successful and efficient hackathon:
Conceptualize the event on themes, objectives, challenges, and stages.
Configure an online platform that allows all event-related execution on a single dashboard.
Market the event through social media outreach and email campaigns. Invite the participants to create teams, strategize and collaborate.
Review the submissions on different parameters and, based on them, automatically calculate results.
Create a live leadership board for transparency and undertake a post-event analytics to host an even better hackathon next time.
8. What is the hackathon program?
Hackathons are a new trend in tech communities. A hackathon program is a great way to make inroads into the tech community, build a brand name and recruit. Based on the ideas of innovation, problem-solving and prototyping, a hackathon program creates a business simulation to empower participants to innovate, brainstorm, and solve various predefined challenges within a specified time frame. A hackathon program aims to create a working solution or prototype of a product or service.
