Global Hack Week: Season Launch

Create your own Solana identity from scratch and fund it with test SOL: your first step toward building real on-chain applications.

Signup for the GitHub Student Developer Pack

Make sure your information is up to date in your MLH account! To receive prizes, you’ll need to verify your email address, phone number, and shipping address within your Account Settings.

Get started by downloading Cursor, the AI code editor, and signing in.

Create a Solana wallet you can actually use: persist it, reload it, and track its balance over time.

Now that your wallet works, look at how its balance is handled in code.

Connect to a real browser wallet, get user approval, and display a live address and balance

Turn on-chain data into a live browser experience by building a dashboard that shows any address’s balance and recent transactions.

Build a project for a friend

Build a project using a new tool

Check in to Season Launch Week

Entire is a git-native developer platform for AI workflows.

The Summer Soirée opens in three days — three nights of string lights, signature drinks, and a lawn full of guests — and host Marisol has called the crew together for one last planning meeting.

Night two of the Summer Soirée prep, and the planner needs more than a guest list. Marisol wants a seating chart, dietary badges for the caterer, and a waitlist — the venue caps at 120 guests, fire marshal’s orders.

Final night of the Summer Soirée — and the main event is the game corner: a projector, a lawn full of competitive guests, and Planetfall, the little arcade game blackgirlbytes built for last year’s party.

Use Cursor’s AI chat to generate or explain your first piece of code.

Build a small working app from scratch with Cursor scaffolding and debugging alongside you.

Find and fix a non-trivial bug in an existing project, using Cursor to trace it across files.

Use GitHub Copilot to complete any of this week’s challenges

Use GitHub Copilot to Build a Simple Application

Getting Started with Copilot

Intro to Repository Management

Code with Codespaces

Introduction to GitHub