Mini-challenges

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Boost your hackathon’s productivity while having your participants happy with Mini-Challenges! Read our article and crack the code of this amazing tool.

 

  1. Playfulness In A Hackathon
  2. Winning Prizes For Excitement
  3. Add Fun To Your Hactahon With Mini-Challenges
  4. Choosing Prizes According To Participant’s Field
  5. Stimulate Creativity
  6. A Quick Break To Uplift The Hackathons Dynamic
Winning Prizes For Excitement

Playfulness In A Hackathon

Mini-challenges are a fun and engaging way to add playfulness to events. They encourage active participation, increase engagement, and enhance the overall experience. Various types of mini-challenges include trivia quizzes, scavenger hunts, and photo contests.

Infuse your day with moments of playfulness. Creative breaks, whether a quick doodle or a puzzle, stimulate the mind and enhance problem-solving skills. Engage in activities known to stimulate creativity, like taking 5-10 minutes mini-challenges to boost and stimulate the participant’s brain can unleash their creative potential during these rejuvenating breaks.

These activities also help them to invest in their professional network through strategic networking breaks. Engaging with colleagues and industry peers fosters collaboration and opens avenues for growth.

To incorporate mini-challenges in events, plan and prepare them in advance, assign dedicated time slots, and provide clear instructions. To ensure successful mini-challenges, keep them short and simple, offer attractive incentives or prizes for winners, and encourage teamwork and collaboration among attendees. This approach keeps events dynamic and engaging. If you want to keep the Hackathon vibe high, remember that participants require various types of cognitive stimulation, so when we actively focus on inserting small breaks that invite them to be playful and creative, they become more energised and effective in delivering the final project.

On a personal level, if you want to leave a lasting impression and create an experience rather than focusing solely on the numbers, you must engage and flow with your event and plan accordingly. Every Hackathon has a different audience, and the diversity of the participants creates a unique blend that we must keep up with and adapt to.

We can plan a variety of activities, such as selecting mini-challenge prizes based on the Hackathon participants’ fields and combining them with active but simple tasks that can generate social media buzz during the event as well as laughter and joy by winning small contests.

This is something that we deliver to our clients to boost productivity during the Hackathon and engage with one another.

Add Fun To Your Hactahon With Mini-Challenges
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Winning Prizes For Excitement

Mini-challenges are a playful and fun way to keep the whole event dynamic. ideally, we use 1 or 2 per every day. In these challenges, which can be creating your meme of making a paper aeroplane competition, the winner’s prize are connected to their field or the participant’s interest. Developers win AirTags and Wallet Tiles, while Lawyers can win subscriptions that help their field or an invitation to a conference. It really can be anything that motivates them, gives their brain a short break, a huge laughter and a prize that will always remind them of this Hackathon
Consider incorporating mini-challenges that align with the overall theme or purpose of the event. This will help create a cohesive and engaging experience for attendees. Additionally, regularly communicate and promote the mini-challenges to ensure maximum participation and excitement throughout the event.

Add Fun To Your Hactahon With Mini-Challenges

The purpose of mini-challenges is to add playfulness and fun to events. Depending on the lengths of the Hackathon day ideally, we plan 1 or 2 mini-challenges per day. These challenges can be anything from creating your meme, photo contests that engage and encourage attendees to capture and submit creative event-related photos, up to making a paper aeroplane competition for the participants.

Here are a few examples of mini-challenges:

Meme challenge:
The participants have 5 minutes to create a meme about their profession or field.
We like to think of this as the best way to introduce the participants’ goofy and creative sides to each other. They are likely to face the same challenges in their field, and making jokes and laughing together about common internal struggles lifts the hyper-professional tone during the Hackathon, humanises all of the participants, and as a result, it allows for more carefree and creative communication during the coding times, which undoubtedly fuels the quality of their work.

Selfie contest:
Who can come up with the funniest and most creative selfie to capture the Hackathon’s vibe and post it with the event’s? This is an extremely engaging way for participants to connect with one another and build their network for the future, not to mention the social media appearance during the Hackathon. People enjoy sharing what they are doing, especially if it involves solving a social problem, developing a solution to a social issue, and challenging themselves professionally while still having fun.

Aeroplane flying contest:
As simple as it sounds, it is a profession, that is more challenging than we remember from elementary school. Bringing back a childhood joy of building something from scratch is a great analogy for most of the Hackathon’s projects and by being so, it is a super motivation that brings the participants great waves of laughter. To help them we like to give them a few funny examples that they can work with.

Winning Prizes For Excitement

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Choosing Prizes According To Participant’s Field

The winner’s prize is always connected to their field or the participant’s interest we choose them individually for every event. For example, developers win AirTags and Wallet Tiles, while Lawyers can win subscriptions that help their field or an invitation to a conference. It could be anything that inspires them, provides a brief mental respite, a great deal of laughter, or a prize that will serve as a constant reminder of this Hackathon.
You can think outside the box with this, but always ensure that you have agreement from your client and that it is within your budget. You can choose any type of subscription, a trip to a conference that enhances their professional life, notebooks, funny technical accessories such as a giant enter button that you can attach to your computer or earbuds, a gamer mouse that does not make any sound when clicked, or high-quality professional accessories; the sky is the limit. The key is to understand your clients and participants’ profiles and surprise them with something useful in their daily lives.

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Choosing Prizes According To Participant’s Field

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