All undergraduate students from any university are welcome. Non-MIT students must be 18 or older. Unfortunately, high school students and graduate students cannot attend.

This year we’re holding a registration lottery. You must submit a lottery application by July 28th at 11:59PM EDT, after which we will randomly select hackers to admit. Once you are chosen, you may finish your registration profile. The HackMIT admissions lottery will operate on a rolling basis; you will have a week to accept your spot once you are lotteried in.

Admission is free, and includes food, drinks, and miscellaneous swag for the entire hackathon!

We’ll keep you fed throughout the weekend. All meals from breakfast on Saturday to breakfast on Sunday, as well as snacks in between, are covered by us. Just imagine yummy mediterranean dinner, late night waffle snacks, and an endless supply of fruit. We’ll try to accommodate dietary restrictions as best we can!

We are providing buses to Yale, Brown, Waterloo, Toronto, Columbia, NYU, and Princeton. If you do not attend one of these schools, you can receive travel reimbursement by uploading a travel receipt by the registration confirmation deadline. Hackers from Massachusetts can receive up to $100, but those coming from within 30 miles of MIT will not be reimbursed. Any other U.S. students can receive up to $200, and international students can receive up to $500.

Teams should be at most 4 people. You can do it alone, but it'll be less fun! Once you submit a lottery application, you can create a team or join someone else's. Even if your team doesn’t make it, your team might be let in on a rolling basis as spots open up. MIT students - you're in for sure!

All attendees are required to bring their valid student ID for admission (name must match registration) and a laptop for hacking. If you want to do a hardware hack, don't forget to bring the devices you plan on working with. We will have some hardware for you to hack on, and a complete list will be posted closer to the event date.

Firearms, knives, and weapons of any kind are banned. If you can't bring it on an airplane, don't bring it here!

Yes. Full fight club rules apply. If you're quick enough, solving the puzzle successfully guarantees admission for you and your team!

We’ll stock a limited supply of hardware hack tools and prototyping materials, similar to what we had last year. We’ll be back with a complete list soon.

Check-in for HackMIT will be from 9AM-11AM on Saturday morning; the opening ceremony will start at 11AM. HackMIT will end around 1:45PM on Sunday. Scroll down for a more detailed schedule, and check back soon for a full list of events.

You can get in touch with us at [email protected] or via Twitter, or Facebook.