We are looking for mentors and judges for HackMIT 2023! This year, we're excited to have our hackathon be on September 16-17th this year. You are eligible to mentor and/or judge if you're NOT a high schooler or an undergraduate student.
What you'll do as a mentor: We need your help to guide our hackers and help them work through the problems they hope to solve throughout the event. Mentors will select shifts during which they will respond to hackers' help requests, ranging from industry-specific questions to helping beginners build their first web app. Using HelpQ, a mentoring system developed by HackMIT, mentors will be able to take students off a virtual queue to answer their questions.
What you'll do as a judge: Judges will be responsible for viewing and selecting the most extraordinary projects from our HackMIT 2023 submissions on Sunday, September 17th tentatively from 12:00 pm to 3:00 pm EDT. There are three main phases: Expo Judging 1, from 12:00 pm to 1:15 pm, Expo Judging 2, from 1:15 pm to 2:00 pm, and Panel Judging, from 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm. We are asking judges to commit to at least one phase of this event. Using Ballot, a scheduled judging platform developed by HackMIT, judges will rank projects they are scheduled to view in 10-minute time slots to determine which projects will be eligible to win our top prizes. Our judges will also be required to attend a mandatory orientation session on Sunday, September 17th at 11:00 am EDT to familiarize themselves with our judging criteria and platform.
IMPORTANT: If you commit to a time slot, it is incredibly important that you show up on time as hackers will be waiting to be judged as soon as their time slot starts!
By becoming a mentor or judge, you'll not only have the opportunity to see incredible projects that may go on to become the best startups in the technology world, you'll also receive the full benefits of attending HackMIT, including access to workshops, tech talks, and other auxiliary events!
If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact us at
volunteer@hackmit.org or leave your questions at the end of this form!
