Journey of Hackathon

What is a hackathon?
Hackathon which makes ideas into real world problem solutions , which make you connect with like minded people it make you a good team leader , grow your skills and work with different partners.
I started my journey of hackathon in 1st year itself without knowing much, just made my team and started that time I am not a winner. I am a learner and then till now I take part in an 8+ hackathon and now I am a mentor in a hackathon.
Who can join — In mostly Hackathon is beginner friendly everyone can participate in that just you need to make a good team and develop technical skills or if you don’t have just give it and learn the working pattern.

Getting Started:
1)Find Your Hackathon best fits on you From what I observed I found that the best profile of hackers are people who:
They are highly competitive with a hunger to win
bored by “just talking about it” and have the passion to see real results
get energized by pressure deadlines
fueled by finding like-minded people to idea to and work with

2. First Decided to make a team of technical and good leader.

FORMING TEAM:
Team chemistry and makeup is one of the most important factors not only in winning, but also in making sure that you don’t burn out. To ensure that you have a chance, here are some tips:
Pitch your idea during the initial pitching session and get folks to buy-in on sharing your vision.
Join a team that already has a front-end engineer. This is a key role that I’ll describe in further detail below.
Have a team of friends or previous hackers to participate with. Knowing each member’s strengths and weaknesses beforehand gives you an advantage in preparation and execution.

3.Employ These Strategies to Be Part of the Best Team- Make good strategies and make everyone on your team give their points and if you have a good team you will always have a chance to make sure that you are in the right direction.

4.Understanding the Judges Panel is Key How to work- this is the best which help me to win understand the background of Judges what they want from you or in which field they are more proficient with this you will get idea that in which field you should focus more and pitch your idea.

5.Decide Your Approach your topic and according to your skills divide it- Yes, always problem or field is given or open to all in that situation

1)team member should meet and discuss the innovative idea 2)approach how to make it skills required 3)Divide the work on the skills of person.

6.It’s for good time Utilize it best Hackathons- typically last 24–48 hours, and the time will fly (especially if you want time for meals and sleep!).Get a general sense of who on your team will work on what, and approximately how long you expect it to take. Timebox tasks, noting when you will “just move on,” even if you can’t get things to work. Bugs can creep up anywhere — and a hackathon is no exception. Deciding in advance how much time you’ll allow for the different parts of your project, and when you’ll move on to a plan B, will help ensure that you have something to demo come pitch time.

7.Learn How to Effectively Validate Your Idea and present it- presentation is main to win means putting your ideas in front of judges is most important and you
It’s for good time Utilize it best Hackathons typically last 24–48 hours, and the time will fly (especially if you want time for meals and sleep!).Get a general sense of who on your team will work on what, and approximately how long you expect it to take. Time box tasks, noting when you will “just move on,” even if you can’t get things to work. Bugs can creep up anywhere — and a hackathon is no exception. Deciding in advance how much time you’ll allow for the different parts of your project, and when you’ll move on to a plan B, will help ensure that you have something to demo come pitch time.
Learn How to Effectively Validate Your Idea and present it presentation is main to win means putting your ideas in front of judges is most important and you

8.Always write your mistake which you done and work upon it-

This is the most important one “Learn from your mistake and try not to revise that in next”

My best experience of winning Hackathon from Incubatedind (https://www.incubateind.com/ ) ,Code-n-build ,CIS, Github and my MLH Hackathons,Zeta Hacks3.0 other Hackathon experience is also cool as we always learn from that
IncubatedInd make best experience of your Hackathon I think you once checkout.