# How to find your awesome team at a Hackathon

# About me

I am Abir, an Engineering Fellow at Major League Hacking, and have won two global hackathons at **Major League Hacking Fellowship** with the theme of Orientation and Data Ethics. Along with this, I was invited as a Judge at Major League Hacking Fellowship Projects. So I feel I should share a part of experience, I gained in choosing and developing teams for hackathons. 


Generally, a team should have the following people
- A Frontend Team/ Person
- A Backend Team/ Person
- A Person who can Pitch the product and make videos, graphics for the whole project, and keep tracks of all the deadlines.**(Usually First Timers in hackathon can do this)**

**Note: A team should have a mid-experience person, if everyone is a beginner, certainly, you all are not going to learn anything, so make sure, you are part of a team, where at least one of the person is having some developer experience.**

### Step 0 

If it's your first time at a hackathon, then be the person with good pitching skills, presenting and understanding the project structure and helping them with graphics and video making. 

### Step 1
 - If you are a front-end person, reach out to a person with backend and pitching skills.
 - If you are a backend person, reach out to, a person with frontend and pitching skills.

### Step 2
 - Brainstorm on bringing an Idea relevant to any one of the themes.
 - Avoid picking very basic ideas ( like, information display, or anything else) 
 - Always, choose an idea, which you feel, 70% confident and 30 % not, so you all can learn and explore during hackathon.

### Step 3

- Make a discord server, do regularly audio meetings, to know things they are working on. And  be comfortable with your team, sharing your interests, and also chill up.

### Step 4

- At the end, you have a team and good friends too, whom you know each other, and you can build things together. May be your first job referral, is done by your team mate. 


# Thank you for reading !! 
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