Request Feedback From Participants
Posted: Mon Feb 10, 2025 4:40 am
It’s important to get feedback from your participants while the event is still fresh in their minds. Ask them about their experience—from discovering the hackathon, finding teammates, coming up with ideas, building their projects, and demos. Also, ask them what other opportunities they can see using hackathons. For example, would running a hackathon with a key customer or partner be of value?
Pro tip: Make sure to also get feedback from mentors and judges.
This feedback will not only help shape your future events, but it will also help with your reporting (more on that in a minute).
#3 Celebrate the Best Projects
Regardless of whether or not your hackathon has prizes, it’s likely that some projects stand out from the rest.
Celebrate these projects widely lebanon telegram screening with your organization. Opportunities for doing so could be internal blogs, podcasts, signage, demoing, podcasts, etc. Your goal is to showcase the top projects—highlighting both the project and the people who created it. This can lead to further work on the project and also show that you are encouraging a culture of innovation.
#4 Connect Projects and Teams With Product Managers
Outside of sharing projects widely with your organization, there may be some projects that are worth highlighting to specific project managers or engineering leaders. These might not necessarily be the projects that “won” the hackathon but they might still be interesting ideas that provoke new ways of thinking.
One way to plan for this is to include technical or product ‘tracks’ within your hackathon. Let teams select the track or tracks that their project matches most closely.
Pro tip: Make sure to also get feedback from mentors and judges.
This feedback will not only help shape your future events, but it will also help with your reporting (more on that in a minute).
#3 Celebrate the Best Projects
Regardless of whether or not your hackathon has prizes, it’s likely that some projects stand out from the rest.
Celebrate these projects widely lebanon telegram screening with your organization. Opportunities for doing so could be internal blogs, podcasts, signage, demoing, podcasts, etc. Your goal is to showcase the top projects—highlighting both the project and the people who created it. This can lead to further work on the project and also show that you are encouraging a culture of innovation.
#4 Connect Projects and Teams With Product Managers
Outside of sharing projects widely with your organization, there may be some projects that are worth highlighting to specific project managers or engineering leaders. These might not necessarily be the projects that “won” the hackathon but they might still be interesting ideas that provoke new ways of thinking.
One way to plan for this is to include technical or product ‘tracks’ within your hackathon. Let teams select the track or tracks that their project matches most closely.