Arizona Hackathon Committee Member - 2027

About Opportunity Hack

We're a nonprofit that connects tech volunteers with nonprofits who need software. Our hackathons bring together developers, designers, and product folks to build real solutions in a weekend — and our projects keep shipping year-round.

The role

You don't need to code. You need to care.

The 2027 Arizona hackathon is where student teams spend a weekend building real software for a real nonprofit. The committee is the group of students who make that weekend happen: they pick the nonprofit, find the sponsors, fill the room, run the schedule, and hand a working product to an organization that could never afford it. Last fall that was 90 students at ASU building for Coding in Color. In 2027, you help decide what it looks like.

What you'll do

These are starting points, not boxes. You can work across them, switch as you learn what you enjoy, and team up with other committee members. No area needs prior experience.

• Campus outreach: be the face of the hackathon at your university, recruit hackers and volunteers, run info sessions
• Sponsorships: pitch local companies on supporting the event, track the pipeline, close the deal
• Logistics and operations: venue, food, check-in, schedule, and the hundred small saves nobody notices when they go right
• Marketing and social: turn real nonprofit projects and hackathon stories into posts that bring in volunteers, sponsors, and nonprofits
• Nonprofit liaison: help find the next nonprofit partner and translate what they need into a problem students can build for
• Volunteers and mentors: recruit, prep, and coordinate the people who keep teams unblocked all weekend

Who this is for

• Any student at any Arizona university or college: ASU, University of Arizona, NAU, GCU, and everywhere in between
• Any major, any year. Business majors run sponsorships. Communications majors run social. Design majors shape the brand. Education majors talk to nonprofits. CS majors keep the tech honest.
• No experience is required. Reliability beats a long resume: an honest 3 hours a week beats an optimistic 10

What you get

This is a volunteer role, and it is not paid — we are a nonprofit with very limited funds. What we can offer is real:

• Real, portfolio-worthy experience with actual users, constraints, and deadlines — not a side project that never ships
• Hearts toward certificates, plus LinkedIn recommendations and references from people who watched you deliver
• A leadership title you can put on your resume, backed by work anyone can verify
• The satisfaction of helping nonprofits get software they could never afford

Everyone who runs Opportunity Hack has a full-time job. We volunteer because we believe tech can do good. Join us.

The fine print

• We are unable to sponsor visas. This is an unpaid volunteer role.
• We run on Slack and email — fast, clear communication is the core skill for every role here.
• We'd love someone who sticks around through the 2027 event, but we'll take all the help we can get.