GTPN Hackathons

GTPN hosts virtual hackathons so Tibetan professionals, students, and creatives can learn by building together, not only by attending talks.

These are collaborative, time-boxed weekends where small teams turn ideas into prototypes, experiments, visual stories, or practical tools. The goal is not perfection. The goal is momentum, learning, and shared creation.

A hackathon is usually a 24–48 hour creative sprint.

Participants form small teams, choose a direction, and work together toward a final demo, whether that becomes a lightweight app, a design concept, a data visualization, a research project, or simply a thoughtful presentation about what they explored and learned.

Hackathons are not just for programmers. Research, storytelling, product thinking, design, facilitation, testing, and organization all matter.

GTPN hackathons are fully online so people can participate from anywhere without travel.

Each edition is organized through Devpost, where schedules, prompts, submission guidelines, and judging details are posted.

Teams are typically small and interdisciplinary, often bringing together different backgrounds and skill sets.

The emphasis is on collaboration and clarity, not polish. A small, well-explained idea is often more meaningful than an over-scoped project.

We host hackathons because we want more Tibetan-led spaces where people actively create, experiment, and solve problems together.

Hackathons give our community a space to move from conversation into creation, learning new skills, testing ideas, and building meaningful projects together in an environment rooted in curiosity, collaboration, and shared context.

These weekends are also about relationships:

• ·meeting future collaborators,
• ·supporting teammates,
• ·learning in public,
• ·and building confidence together.

Technology alone does not strengthen community. People do. But building together can become one more way we support each other.

Students, career-switchers, creatives, researchers, and experienced professionals are all welcome.

You do not need to consider yourself "technical" to participate. Strong teams need organizers, designers, writers, researchers, presenters, testers, and people who simply care enough to contribute.

If you are curious, collaborative, and willing to learn openly with others, you belong here.