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AWS GameDay Hackathon: Official Commencement Session
Event Date
April 08, 2026
Event Time
04pm PKT
Live On
Innovista Chenab DHA, Multan
About the Event
AWS GameDay is not a normal hackathon. There is no brief handed out at the start and no polished demo at the end. Teams are dropped into a live, deliberately broken AWS environment and scored on what they manage to diagnose, repair and keep running under time pressure. It rewards the things that are hard to revise for reading an unfamiliar architecture quickly, dividing work sensibly, and staying calm when something breaks that nobody planned for.
That format catches first-time participants off guard, which is exactly why this session existed. GoCloud hosted it in collaboration with the AWS Student Builder Group at Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan, as the official commencement session for the competition held online so students from any campus could join.
Three hours, no slides-for-the-sake-of-slides. Nadeem Chaudhry, Chief Commercial Officer at GoCloud, covered what AWS looks for and where the real opportunities sit beyond the leaderboard. Dr Shahid Iqbal from BZU’s Department of Computer Engineering and M. Talha Jahangir from the Department of Computer Science at MNS UET brought the academic and practical preparation side how to build a team that complements itself, and what to study in the weeks before rather than the night before.
In this session, we covered:
• AWS GameDay format and structure how scoring works and what the environment actually throws at you
• Team strategy and collaboration guidelines dividing roles so four people don’t debug the same thing
• Preparation roadmap which AWS services to be comfortable with before the day, and in what order
• Prizes, opportunities and what to expect including what participation opens up beyond the competition itself
Who this was for:
• Computer science and engineering students entering AWS GameDay for the first time
• University teams looking to compete seriously rather than turn up and improvise
• Students early in their AWS learning who wanted a practical target to work towards
• Faculty and student community leads running AWS Student Builder chapters
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