A hackathon is an opportunity for students of all ages who are interested in CS to come together, solve hard problems, and build cool things. Paradigm Conf is unique among hackathons for using exclusively functional, array, and knowledge-based languages! So the things we build will be even cooler than you're used to!

Major League Hacking (MLH) is an organization that helps students organize hackathons. As a MLH member event, we work with the MLH team to deliver you the best experience possible. This also means we enforce the MLH Code of Conduct.

Paradigm Conf is a virtual, three-day conference running from September 23-25.

All middle schoolers and high schoolers from anywhere in the world are elligible! We also encourage interested college students to attend. However, we ask that only college students who have not taken a class involving one or more of these languages register. If you do not fit this critera, but would still like to get involved, reach out to us about becoming a mentor.

You can either register with a team in advance, or register solo. Since we embrace collaboration, everyone will have the opportunity to join a team once the conference starts, even if you registered solo!

Is every monad a monoid? YES! Each participant will receive a sticker and T-shirt, no matter where you live. Additional swag can be won at workshops, and winners of either the coding competition or hackathon for each language track will receive some awesome goodies, including both software AND hardware.

All teams must use one of the five following languges during the three-day conference:

Clojure: A modern-day Lisp, Clojure is all about making functional programming cool again. If you think you know how to program, we dare you: try Clojure.

Haskell: The first functional programming language, Haskell is as pure as you can get! If you're into math, provable safety, type theory, and elegant one-liners, then Haskell is the way to go!

APL: Have you ever wondered what it would be like to program with hieroglyphics? Meet APL, a language so terse that it condenses entire algorithms into a single character!

OCaml: Haskell's more rebellious twin, OCaml is a mix of functional, object-oriented, and imperative programming. A good starting point for new initiates to the functional programming world!

Wolfram Language: The only real knowledge-based programming language out there, the Wolfram language has a function to do literally anything (yes, even generate memes).

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