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Summer Make-a-Thon

Since 2016, our yearly Make-a-Thon has drawn young people from in and around Edinburgh to compete in teams to build the best project in a short time!

🏗️ The 2026 Summer Make-a-Thon is coming!

Watch this space... registration for the 2026 Prewired Summer Make-a-Thon will open soon.

What is the Summer Make-a-Thon?

Each year, usually in July, we run our Summer Make-a-Thon: a full-weekend event during which participants work in small teams to prototype a solution to a challenge over the course of two days and present their work to a panel of judges at the end.

The Make-a-Thon is open to those aged 11-18 and is a fantastic opportunity to practice working in a team, quickly scaffolding a project, and presenting in front of an audience.

Make-a-Thon and Summer Hack archive

From 2016 to 2019, we ran week-long Summer Hacks each year. After a break for COVID, we returned in 2023 with the current Make-a-Thon format. See below for impressions of the editions so far:

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