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Promotional Products For Hackathons
Hackathons are big gatherings of software developers, computer programmers and other IT people, brought together to collaborate intensively on a given IT project. They usually last a day or so but have been known to go on for as long as a week.
The nice little portmanteau word comes from a mix of ‘marathon’ and ‘hack’ (hack as in programming exploration rather than computer hacking!). Hackathons have emerged from the open computing culture.
Early hackathons often had a community goal and something of a community spirit. More recently, they’ve been viewed by firms, especially venture capital organisations, as a neat way to develop software rapidly. Large blue chip companies commonly organise hackathons to test new systems.
Hackathons can have quite a specific remit, or they can be more relaxed, allowing punters to trawl and experiment fairly broadly to see what emerges.
For hackathons that last 24 hours or longer, meals are often informal, with participants surviving on takeaways, coffee and energy drinks. Sleeping gets a little informal too, as people camp out in sleeping bags, catching a few hours between times.
Hackathons present a perfect opportunity for promoting your brand, so we have put for a collection of promotional merchandise ideas together that will not only display your brand but will be very useful to all those taking part:
- Energy drinks,
- Water,
- Energy bars,
- Survival kits – painkillers, lip balm, eye masks, etc,
- Pillows,
- Fleece blankets,
- Sticky notes,
- Screen cleaners,
- Power banks,
- T-shirts,
- Balloons,
- Memo books,
- Pens & pencils,
- Exercise gizmos,
- Banners,
- Ear phones,
- Mousemats.
Arcadia supply creative, quality, compliant, ethically made promotional products that would suit any forthcoming hackathon worldwide! Contact us today at sales@arcadiaonline.co.uk.
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