Hack Your Learning, Calgary, AB (2026)

10/13/2022

💻 Do you love programming?
📄 Do you have space to fill on your resume?
👨🏾‍🤝‍👨🏽 Do you want to connect with like-minded individuals?

If you are a student attending University of Calgary and have answered yes to any of these questions, Hack Your Learning is currently recruiting for several executive positions including:

⭐ Content Creators
⭐ Event Coordinators
⭐ Media Coordinators
⭐ Volunteer Coordinators

Hack Your Learning was founded in 2020 as an initiative to make students comfortable and eager to participate in Hackathons. We plan on hosting bi-weekly workshops that provide technical insight and exposure to the different aspects involved with participating in Hackathons. These workshops will consist of programming problems as well as topic-focused seminars with potential for guest speakers to help prepare students for upcoming Hackathons. We are also in the process of planning several large-scale Hackathons throughout the year, including prospects to host competitions with other universities.

For anyone interested, please apply using the google form below:
https://forms.gle/nsVbniS6m4KFTxqG8

If you have any questions about the club or available positions can be sent to [email protected] or DM us on social media!

03/29/2022

So as some of you may be aware, our second annual hackathon has occurred this weekend and it ended up being surprisingly eventful!

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As we draw this HYL season to close, we'd like to give one final round of applause to everyone who participated. It's a great feat to be able to create such projects in 24 hours, and all those who participated should be exceptionally proud of what they've accomplished!

Not to mention, without your enthusiasm in our event we would have no real reason to run the hackathon! So we do hope that you all enjoyed the experience as much as we did 💙

Now with the help of our wonderful judges,

- Rajat Arora @ HSBC
- Zac Beemer @ Benevity
- David Wong @ Benevity
- Raghav Poddar @ Forward Kitchens,

who volunteered their time this weekend we were able to decide on winners for our hackathon! The placements for this year were as follows:

- BEGINNER STREAM -
🥇 First Place: "Python Basics"
🥈 Second Place: "Snake: Learn Python for Kids"
🥉 Third Place: "Coding Dino"

- INTERMEDIATE STREAM -
🥇 First Place: "Duo Chef"
🥈 Second Place: "Scholar Ed"
🥉 Third Place: "uHub"

You can check out the winning projects and all the rest that were submitted via our DevPost (https://hyl-2022.devpost.com/project-gallery).

Anyways, that brings us to a complete wrap for HYL's 2022 Hackathon! We hope to see you all again next year!

03/26/2022

⭐ Our Hackathon is kicking off today ⭐..and that's enough that needs to be said about that!

03/25/2022

⭐ We're a day away until the official kick off of this year's Hack Your Learning Hackathon! ⭐

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As there isn't much to say, besides we're so very excited to see what this weekend brings, we're gonna take a moment to thank some more folks!

Firstly, we want to give a big thanks to the mentors who volunteered their free time this weekend to help us, AND the participants! They will be spending their time sharing their knowledge and likely learning new things as they work with participants to debug their code or choose the best approach to develop their projects. Without these mentors lending a helping hand, we wouldn't be able to provide as an ideal space for newcomers to the world of coding and hackathons!

Next, we want thank the Judges who are helping us out this weekend. They too are volunteering their own free time to provide their expertise to ensure all participants are fairly scored. They are also providing sincere feedback to help these participants grow as proper developers.

This hackathon truly has been a group effort, and we couldn't have done it without all these helping hands.

03/24/2022

⭐ Less than 2 days left until the start of the second annual Hack Your Learning Hackathon! ⭐

Things are officially in full swing! Participants who have successfully registered should have received an email this morning, and if you seem to be missing one check your junk mail! If you can't find it in the pile of spam, then please feel free to reach out to us on our social media or [email protected] to confirm your registration.

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Additionally, today we wanted to give a shout out to all of you who signed up! Without your active participation we would have no reason to host such an event and we hope you all think it's an awesome one 💙

Anyways, see you all this weekend! We can't wait 😊

03/20/2022

⭐ REGISTRATION ENDS TONIGHT ⭐

This is the last call for all participant registrations for the Hack Your Learning Hackathon happening on March 26th to 27th! The deadline to submit your registration is 11:59pm tonight, so if you've wanted to participate but haven't gotten around to it head over to the registration link (https://forms.gle/EdMTQAXvLCnrMu3o6) ASAP!

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To all those who have applied already, you can expect an email from the organizational team in the next day or two after registration has closed. We can't wait to see you all this weekend!

If you have any questions, do not hesitate to send us any questions.

03/09/2022

As you may have seen from our last post, we have our second annual hackathon coming up online on March 26th-27th!

However, we cannot run this event successfully without the handful of volunteers using their weekend to mentor participants! ♥

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Are you passionate about helping others with their full-stack development? Want to showcase your coding skills while teaching others how to use various technologies? Want to strengthen your portfolio with a great extracurricular activity? Then the HYL Hackathon is a great opportunity for someone like you!

We're looking for someone with some level of understanding of full-stack programming, and are keen to spread knowledge to someone who's intimidated of hackathons or new to programming .

Interested? Applications are pretty straightforward and simple!

⭐Applications are being accepted through the following form! The deadline to apply is March 20th @ 11:59pm⭐

If you have any questions, do not hesitate to email [email protected]

03/08/2022

⭐It's that time of the year, for Hack Your Learning's second annual hackathon, which is happening online on March 26th to 27th, 2022! ⭐

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We've got two streams this year, Beginner & Intermediate!

The beginner stream is a great opportunity for those who have just started their programming journey or those new to Hackathons and aren't sure what to expect. Meanwhile, our Intermediate stream means you can expect a few more challenges to put your brain to work.

It'll be a weekend of fun, where participants can win prizes from a 💵 $1000 prize pool 💵.

Our hackathon is open to any UNDERGRADUATE or HIGH SCHOOL student! You may work alone but we highly encourage you to collaborate with a team of up to 4 members total, so get your friends involved!

⭐If you're interested in participating be sure to fill out the form below by March 20th @ 11:59pm.⭐

If you have any questions, do not hesitate to email [email protected]

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If you're not interested in actively competing but would love to help then we are also taking on mentors who will assist participants during the event. If this is something that is more your style, then please sign up at:

02/24/2022

Check out this week's Tech Thursday! Did you know JavaScript is one of the most widely programming languages in the world?

JavaScript's popularity can be all over the web with over 95% of websites using it to create dynamic, interactive web pages. As well, it has numerous libraries and frameworks, such as AngularJS, that make game, app and web development much more
efficient than starting from scratch

02/17/2022

Here's a Tech Thursday fun fact! Did the world's first public webpage was made in 1991?

The page was written by Tim-Berners Lee, a scientist who worked at CERN. It was made visible on August 23,1991 which is often considered the birthdate of the World Wide Web. The page can still be visited at info.cern.ch

02/10/2022

Check out Tech Thursday's fact of the week! Did you know there are over 700 programming languages?

Despite the variety, most software only use about 5 languages. Netflix and social media platforms typically use Java, C++, or Python for backend development. Video game companies commonly use C++ or C # for game development

11/29/2021

~ Hack Your Learning Web Development Workshop ~

Are you interested in web development? Maybe a spider is your favourite "animal"? If you've answered yes to either of these questions, then this is a perfect opportunity for you to take a step toward becoming a web developer 🙂

The Hack Your Learning team would like to invite you to our next workshop that is exclusively dedicated to web development. Also usual, this workshop is free, and doesn't require pre-registration.

To give you some context, here are some things that will happen in this session:
1. You'll learn the basic concepts of HTML and CSS.
2. You'll get an exercise on how to build a simple website from scratch.
3. You'll get a brief description on Netlify and learn how to deploy your own website to Netlify!

[Bonus] How to improve your website and common mistakes.

This session will be hosted on December 1st at 6pm. Interested? Join our Discord Server to get notified about the event before it starts!

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