Branded registration in minutes
A registration page and form builder with your university's logo and colors — add student-ID, major, and consent fields, collect file uploads, and open it in English and Arabic.
For universities
A hackathon platform built for universities
From a student club's first 40-person event to a faculty-wide innovation week, Hackathon by Slingshot handles registration, teams, attendance, judging, and certificates — so your organizers spend the weekend with students, not spreadsheets.
Student hackathons drown organizers in busywork
Most campus events are run by a handful of students and one overstretched faculty advisor. The tooling is a pile of Google Forms, WhatsApp groups, and a scoring spreadsheet that breaks the moment a second judge opens it.
- Registrations, waivers, and team lists live in three different places
- Solo students who don't know anyone quietly drop out before day one
- Judging comes down to a shared sheet nobody trusts by the final round
One platform from sign-up to certificate
Hackathon puts the whole event on rails, with the specific things a university event needs baked in.
Team formation for students who came alone
A "looking for a team" pool and invite codes let solo participants find teammates instead of dropping out, and organizers move rosters with one click.
QR attendance you can hand to the registrar
Scan badges at the door; the live counter and per-session logs give you the attendance record faculty need for credit or club funding.
Fair judging faculty can defend
Weighted rubrics keep every judge on the same criteria, scores are normalized across strict and lenient judges, and conflict flags exclude an advisor from scoring their own students.
Verifiable certificates for CVs
Issue certificates in one click that students can actually verify and add to a LinkedIn profile or a scholarship application.
Frequently asked questions
How much does it cost for student events?
Plans are sized to your program — a single club event and a campus-wide series are priced differently. Contact sales at hit@eslingshot.com and we'll fit a plan to your event.
Does it work in Arabic for bilingual campuses?
Fully. Every participant, mentor, and judge screen ships in English and Arabic with true right-to-left layout, so you can publish one event that serves both languages side by side.
Can multiple departments or clubs run their own events?
Yes. Each event has its own page, branding, form, and judging setup inside your workspace, so a CS club and an engineering college can run in parallel without stepping on each other.
Can students verify the certificates later?
Every certificate is verifiable, so a recruiter or scholarship committee can confirm a student really participated and placed.
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Run your next campus hackathon the easy way
Create a workspace and have a bilingual registration page live before your next club meeting.
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