Attending can be daunting. You overhear the team next to you talk about how they’ve won 10 hackathons, or another individual boast about how they’ve been coding since age 8. You start to feel impostor syndrome settle in.

That was me during my first hackathon. My 24 hours of hard work had culminated in sleep deprivation and a half-working app. Mortified, I decided not to present. But as I watched the rest of the teams pitch their hacks one by one, my jaw dropped. Many of them were bug-ridden and incomplete. Instead of feeling like I had wasted 24 hours, I left that day grinning. I felt like I had learned an insider’s secret: Your hack does not have to work completely — it just

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