1. Practice makes perfect. Practice your materials and facilitation. Get a friend or event volunteer to run through your materials with you.
    
2. Make every attempt humanly possible to define the space as interactive.Break up the space as much as possible. Set up design centers or stations so people can easily move about within the event space.
    
3. Gather Materials For group sessions and other brainstorming collaboration, here are some recommended supplies:
   1. Computers. If you don't have the means to provide computers, make sure  participants know to bring their own and have an updated version of the their browser installed!
   2. “Post-it” notes, in multiple colors and sizes 
   3.  Flip-chart pads, with “Post-it” sticky backing if the budget permits 
   4.  Colored markers and pens 
   5.  Easels with clips to hold up flip-charts 
   6.  Masking tape
   7.  Print Badges and Cheatsheets - The Hacktivity Kit includes badges and a rubric for assessing your participants. It also contains some helpful cheatsheets for use at your hackjam. Download and print these resources.
       
4. Complete the IT checklist -  Download the IT Checklist as a PDF.
   
   
5.  Create a video, screencast, or blog post detailing your practice session and post to the Task Discussion. What happened? How was your space set up? What was unexpected?

We know you were frustrated at least once during this IT check. Did you throw anything or did you just rant? Describe what made this hard, and comment on two of their posts.