Society/Website is in progress, so take these information with a grain of salt.

TLDR

We are University of Liverpool Hackathon Society. We host and attend Hackathons. We provide workshop where people have the opportunity to learn different technologies such as Git, Docker and much more.

Who should join?

Anyone is welcome to join. We will train beginners with modern in demand technologies such as React.js, Python, Pascal and much more...

Tech Workshops

With the help from our students and professional developers. We can set up exciting workshop which will provide a great opportunity for people to learn in-demand and useful tech.

Real Projects

We will help other organisation (e.g. homeless society, BeeKeeping society or other small company), by developing tech solution for them as a non-profit. This will be beneficial to our student, since you can work on a real world project.

What is a Hackathon?

A Hackathon is an event where you and your team must come up with an idea and bring it to life using the latest tech. You usually have a time limit of 24 hours to produced a working prototype. However, you can find some Hackathon are 36 hours or longer.
The idea could be anything. It could be a talking Robot or a Web Application which helps people network. Some other things include VR, AR and artificial intelligence.

Why attend Hackathons?

Hackathon provides a great opportunity to learn. You will improved on your teamwork, leadership, tech skills, presentation, critical thinking and much more. You will have the chance to meet new friends. People who are passionate about technologies.
You will also win prizes, such as Amazon Alexa, Headphone and money! Also, you will have the opportunity to network with big companies such as Barclay, Amazon, PWC and hot startup such as Monzo. (Sometime they are there to recruit you!)