A sponsor’s perspective This blogpost is written on the heels of a few amazing weekends spent knee-deep in students in Toronto and Los Angeles at Hack Canada and LA Hacks, engaging almost 2000 students in person in total. Managing a sponsor track, I have some thoughts on good ways to present yourselves when angling your project towards a sponsor prize. For those not as familiar with how student hackathons work, they are usually comprised of an organized weekend populated by college undergrads (or older, or younger! high schoolers are increasingly getting into the mix). Over about 36 hours, students form teams and try to build software that meets a need, solves a problem, or proves a point. Some hackathons focus on themes around social good, like Hack Canada which challenged students to build something of special interest to Canada. Others have several themes and a full roster of sponsored themes. Hackathons are a bastion of the cozy web!…