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What is Major League Hacking (MLH)?

Major League Hacking (MLH) is a mission-driven organization empowering the next generation of technologists. MLH runs the largest community of early-career developers worldwide with more than 500,000 members. Through hackathons, fellowships, and workshops, community members count on MLH to gain practical hands-on experience, build their professional networks, and ultimately launch their careers. MLH works with developer relations, open source engineering, and talent teams to identify, train, and hire amazing and diverse technical talent.

MLH has been a community-first, mission-driven organization from the beginning. We measure our success by the number of hackers we empower, and we want to keep it that way. That's why we made it official and became a Certified B Corporation in 2016. B Corps are for-profit enterprises that are legally required to consider the impact of their decisions on their community, not just their shareholders.

Each year MLH supports

150,000

Community Members

1,000

Open Source Fellows

300

Hackathons

30

Countries

Who are Hackers?

The early career developers aka hackers in MLH's Community are an extremely sought-after group of highly talented and diverse technologists. More than 30% of all US Computer Science Students participate in Major League Hacking programs every year!

MLH

Student Hackers

vs

USA

Undergrad Students

Demographics

47

53

Gender Ratio

21

79

Ethnicity

White/Caucasian

African American

Hispanic

Other Groups

White/Caucasian

43.7

African American

3.3

Hispanic

7.9

Other Groups

45.1

18-23

Primary Audience Range

73 Undergraduate Students

19% Graduate or Higher, 8% High School

100 More Female/Non-Binary Representation

than USA CS/CE Undergrad Enrollment.

48 Actively Looking for Employment

98 Learn skills at MLH hackathons that they do not get in the classroom

Sources: 2019 Taulbee Survey, 2021 MLH Hacker Census

How can you partner with Major League Hacking?

MLH offers authentic partnerships with our developer community programs. We are experts at creating sponsorship opportunities that position companies alongside early career technologists in meaningful, repeatable, and long-lasting ways.

Hackathon League

Through a sponsorship of MLH’s hackathon league, you can reach developers in a hands-off, scalable program so that they can try your platform, learn about your brand, and become your future super-users and potential hires.

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MLH Fellowship

Our 12-week Fellowship program trains early career developers in key skills like open source engineering, Web3 development, and even Site Reliability Engineering. Sponsor your future talent and community members.

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Global Hack Week

Global Hack Week is a recurring week-long virtual hacker festival, bringing together thousands of developers from around the world to try new platforms, learn from interactive workshops, and build their tech communities.

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What impact can MLH have?

Scale

Achieve scale for your developer marketing and talent promotions without your team needing to attend tons of events.

Analytics

Measure success through surveying, reporting, and cross-platform comparison analytics provided throughout the season.

Engineering Impact

Drive real, lasting engineering impact through working with Open Source Fellows.

Feedback

Learn from real-time, direct developer observations to help inform product and platform decisions.

Brand Promotion

Build your brand as a desirable tech employer by integrating yourself into our vibrant community.

Tailored Approach

Impact the priorities you care about through a consultative, collaborative MLH sponsor package.

What do Sponsors say about MLH?

Open source lifts all boats – creating speed, innovation and opportunity for developers around the world. For Facebook, investing in open source is an impactful way to empower these developers as well as broader communities of individuals and businesses. To that end, we’re thrilled to support MLH’s global fellowship program which will not only help us invest in the next generation of open source hackers but also promote increasing diversity in tech.

Kathy Kam Head of Open Source at Meta
Hackathons provide students great opportunities for learning and building community on campus. MLH made it possible for us to scalably support students at hackathons around the world. Their unique expertise is invaluable and we are proud to support the MLH season and all the student organizers who make the events happen. Happy Hacking.

John Britton GitHub Education Lead
Both Dell and Alienware are proud and excited to provide an opportunity for tomorrow’s innovators to push their creative limits through our end to end solutions. Through our partnership with Major League Hacking (MLH), now in its third year, we have been able to support tens of thousands of students across hundreds of events. By working with MLH, we have been able to provide student hackers with the best technology out there so that they can continue to push innovation forward. We’re inspired by their passion for technology.

Josh Landau Dell Executive Director of Marketing

Success Measures

Developer Marketing

Our partnership with Google began with a mission to drive new users to Google Cloud & increase their brand preference within a highly competitive market of cloud providers We integrated Google’s brand & products into hundreds of hackathons that reached hundreds of thousands of developers annually, increasing their brand preference far above industry averages.
Employment Branding

Capital One partners with MLH to increase their Employment Brand perception among student hackers. By outfitting the smartest up-and-coming technologists with MLH and Capital One branded swag, we ensure that student hackers directly associate this innovative movement with Capital One. The apparel then gets seen by millions of people interacting daily with our students. To this day, hundreds of MLH community alums have worked on Capital One tech teams.
Open Source Engineering

Meta joined the MLH Fellowship as a launch partner to create opportunities for diverse early career developers to learn the core skills needed to become contributors to their flagship open source projects.

MLH worked with the maintainers of projects like React, Jest, Hermes, Mapillary, Docusaurus, and others to identify high impact Issues for Fellows to work on over the course of our 12 week program under the guidance of expert mentors.

Meta has supported hundreds of MLH Fellows who have submitted hundreds of Pull Requests to Facebook-maintained projects with more than 70% merged already.