Get excited for GumGum’s 6th annual Hackathon! Teams will hack on a project of their choice for 48 hours from 9AM PST on Monday, July 26 to 9AM PST Wednesday, July 28.
Competitors will present their finished projects to a team of judges all day on Wednesday, July 28, with the presentations live-streamed for all offices.
Our Hackathon is open to all GumGum employees, and we strongly encourage participants to work with people from other offices and departments.
Enjoy spending time brainstorming and creating with GumGum team members
Work with people you don’t usually interact with!
Show off a great idea you never have the time to work on
Be the creator of a brand new product
Win awesome prizes
Great perks throughout the event
Each person can only be on one team
5 People Max
Your project should be related to GumGum’s businesses
Impact
The demo of your product shouldn’t impact GumGum’s production systems. Your code will need to run in a test environment only
The Demo
Your presentation should be ready by 9:00AM PST on Wednesday, July 28
Due Date
Each team will have 10 minutes to present their hack(s) to our panel of judges, with 5 minutes of Q&A
Presentation
How impressive and innovative your project is
How much of a game-changer your project would be for gumgum’s bottom line
How well does your product solve a problem, fill a need, or would be embraced by a user or market
How complete your project is and ready to go live
Wow
Factor
Revenue Opportunity
Market Viability
Execution
Phil Schraeder
Britt Wallace
T’Juana
Albert
Ken
Weiner
Vaibhav Puranik
$5,000
$3,000
$2,000
Almost There
People’s Choice
$250/person
$250/person
Do you have an idea and are looking for teammates? Do you not know what to build, but you want to participate?
Is the Hackathon mandatory?
No, but everyone is encouraged to participate!
Everybody is welcome to participate, including non-engineers and employees all over the world. Non-engineers can help in defining the product requirements, finding the right business use cases for the idea, helping with the design and the testing and/or working on the sales pitch and presentation deck.
Who can participate?
If you participate, you are not expected to perform your usual day-to-day work during the Hackathon. Your manager has been informed and will help you accommodate your schedule, so you have as much free time as possible during the Hackathon. If you’re still worried about your workload, typically participants don’t need to hack for the entire 2 days. And since we’re virtual, you can also participate and check in on work at the same time.
I have too much work, I won’t have time to participate!
hackathon-org@gumgum.com
Who do I reach out to if I have any questions?
Registration ends June 14 at 11:59pm Pacific Time. This sign up deadline is for individuals to sign up- you'll have more time to find and submit a team.
When is the Registration Deadline?
RSVP
July 26- July 29
RSVP
Post in our Slack channel #hackathon
For inspiration from previous Hackathon ideas, read through our
hackathon archive
View and add your ideas here
