YES! We will have a panel of judges to decide the top 3 winners of the hackathon and teams will get cold, hard cash (via Visa gift cards) if they win!



1st Place - $1000

2nd Place - $500

3rd Place - $250

Plus, everyone will leave with a specially made Hacking the Archive t-shirt!

YES! We will be having breakfast and lunch together, as well as celebratory cake at the end of the day. There will also be plenty of snacks available throughout to keep your fueled during your hacking!

If you have access to a personal laptop, tablet, phone, or other device to access the internet, please bring it as well as a way to keep it charged! Anything you can bring of your own will help you and your team during the day as you hack some digital archives!

We will sort participants into teams based on their interest in the different questions, and you will find out who is on your team and what question you will be hacking on the day. We will be trying to ensure that each team is inter-generational and has a variety of different perspectives on it to create a truly collaborative experience. You do not need to form a team ahead of time to register for the hackathon.

The ideas that come out of the hackathon ideas will be shared with partners for potential implementation, and may also live on in a future Hacking the Archive archive!

Registration opens in April 2025