At Capital One the goal is simple – bring ingenuity, simplicity, and humanity to an industry ripe for change. Our partnership seeks to inspire and empower the next generation of technologists around the world with something hackers universally love - SWAG! Each season, Capital One outfits thousands of hackers with custom MLH season t-shirts to wear proudly at each hackathon they attend. Through their experience at hackathons, hackers are able to learn about career opportunities at one of the leading financial companies in the world.

Hacks need domains! For the past two years, Domain.com has provided free domain codes for all hackers at MLH events. Students can register a free .com, .net, or .org domain at each event they attend through the season, including free WhoIs privacy to protect the domain. The best domain name at each event wins a swag bag filled with awesome hacker gear.

Hack Harassment is a collaborative initiative to promote safer, more inclusive online experiences. By raising awareness, fostering collaboration, and cultivating real technical solutions the goal is to reduce the proliferation of online harassment. Throughout the 2017 season, we’re inviting all hackers at MLH hackathons to take the pledge, and have brought the #HackHarassment challenge to all of our events. The top hack of the whole season will win a trip to Intel’s headquarters in Santa Clara and the chance to get $10k in funding to continue the project.

Millions of developers use GitHub to build personal projects, support their businesses, and work together on open source technologies. GitHub created the GitHub Student Developer Pack to give student hackers at all MLH events free access to the best developer tools in one place so they can learn by doing. We also run a fun Octocat drawing contest on Twitter (#myoctocat), giving hackers the chance to win Octocat statues!

Bloomberg delivers business and markets news, data, analysis, and video to the world. Our partnership with Bloomberg empowers hackers across our entire European region with mini-events, prizes, and a series of hacker dinners, providing opportunities for talented student technologists to connect with the passionate Bloomberg team.

We’ve worked with Soylent to provide Soylent Drink and Coffiest to hackers at all our North American events. Hackers can also participate in our Soylent bottle drawing contest using the hashtag #soylentcanvas for a chance to win Soylent swag!

Alienware, a pioneer in specialty high-performance PC gaming systems, powers VR and game development in the MLH Hardware Lab.

Amazon Echo is a hands-free speaker you control with your voice. Echo connects to the programmable Alexa Voice Service to play music, provide information, news, sports scores, weather, and more—instantly. All you have to do is ask.

The Oculus Rift is a new virtual reality headset that lets players step inside their favorite games and virtual worlds. With Samsung GearVR powered by Oculus, any Samsung GALAXY smartphone can take hackers to another world. It’s virtual reality, anytime, anywhere.