List of hackathons in Niagara Falls, Canada in 2019

Students -- grades 7 to 12 -- in and around the City of Brampton, Ontario! The Peel District School Board invites you to participate in WolfHacks 2019 annual hackathon! You'll get to collaborate with 200 of your peers to design and demonstrate an innovative solution to a persistent problem. You'll take part in interactive workshops and get to talk to mentors and other industry figures! Students with non-techie backgrounds like science or social science are welcome to compete -- on a team with an attendee with a technical background.

Hacking for Good is a 24-hour tech competition (hackathon). Students will collaborate in teams to build tech solutions for community issues.

A Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics hackathon at Angus Glen Community Centre. The theme this year is "Deep Space".  You can make anything related to STEM and space. It can be a program, a game, a design concept, or almost anything else you can think of. The prizes are: - Most Useful - Most Entertaining - Most Deep Space Themed - Best Presentation - Most Creative Please bring your own computer and/or anything else you need. There is a lunch break, so please order pizza using this form: https://goo.gl/forms/ztYWpDbvj8yC9AcI3 Presented by the Markville STEM Council and Markham Community Robotics.

University of Toronto Scarborough students! The UTSC Library invites you to participate in a Mini Hackathon on Bettering Student Life. Come with a team or join one at the event and collaborate to make an app using the technology of your choice (Python, Arduino, Raspberry Pi) to create something that enhances the life of a student.

***SOLD OUT*** Open to professionals and students, 18+ Artificial Intelligence has quickly come to the forefront as a truly disruptive technology. We’re challenging participants to harness that power for ‘good'. On March 22–23 teams of 2-5 developers, designers/marketers, and engineers will come together to build an application prototype utilizing AI to tackle a real-world problem for the betterment of humanity; a social, environmental, or health issue of their choice in just 36 hours. #AllHackNoSleep How can your team use technology to work towards the greater good? Put together a concept, develop your app prototype and present it to a panel of judges, all in 36 hours. Bring Yourself or Bring Your Team! Sign up as a team of 2-5 or as an individual and we’ll match you up. Either way, it will be a great way to meet other techies, share ideas and have fun!  Open to professionals and students, 18+ • FREE to Enter• Food and drinks provided• $5000 Grand Prize  Why Join? COLLABORATE: work with like-minded individuals to create an application prototype utilizing AI that's worthy of showing off. NETWORK: connect with mentors and businesses in the tech community and potentially scope out your next big opportunity. LEARN: hone your tech skills and learn some new ones. HAVE FUN: enjoy 36 straight hours of fun and challenging work that you can feel good about. For more information, visit: Visit our  WebsiteLike us on FacebookFollow us on TwitterFollow us on Instagram Previous Hack For Good sponsors, include: Town of Whitby, 360insights, The Regional Municipality of Durham Planning and Economic Development, General Motors, Durham College, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, SourcePoint Business Group, BMO, Tap and Tankard, Tim Horton's  

About We are a small group of individuals at IBM with big plans to empower the next generation through experiential learning. At IBM, work is more than a job - it's a calling: To build. To design. To code. To consult. To think along with clients and sell. To make markets. To invent. To collaborate. Not just to do something better, but to attempt things you've never thought possible. To lead in this new era of technology and solve some of the world's most challenging problems. IBM is a leading cloud platform and cognitive solutions company. Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are the largest technology and consulting employer in the world, with more than 380,000 employees serving clients in 170 countries. With Watson, the AI platform for business, powered by data, we are building industry-based solutions to real-world problems. For more than seven decades, IBM Research has defined the future of information technology with more than 3,000 researchers in 12 labs located across six continents. For more information, visit www.ibm.com. Event Details IBM and ZLAS have partnered to launch the first annual IBM Data Analytics Challenge. We are calling all Ryerson Students interested in data analytics to join us for a series of virtual and hands-on workshops put on by IBM followed by a final online competition for some exciting prizes. The competition will be held here on the Riipen platform where your team will have the opportunity to engage virtually with the IBM challenge mentors. Teams will prepare a response to the challenge and send the PowerPoint/KeyNote file to the event staff at least 24 hours before arriving at Ryerson. Hackathon Task: Teams are challenged to analyze CEO interview transcripts from the Podcast “Masters of Scale” and rank them as hiring candidates based on extracted personality traits and other factors decided by the team.  Hackathon Tools: Participants will solve the challenge using Watson Studio and related IBM technologies. To prepare students, IBM will provide training workshops, online resources and can be messaged online through the Riipen platform throughout the challenge. We strongly encourage participants to attend the workshops for both the learning experience and the opportunity to interact with IBMers.  Challenge Dataset: The challenge data will be released to teams on March 17th @ 9 am ET. Milestones Hands-On In-Person Workshop: March 16th Lunch and refreshments will be provided. Join us for a 6-hour hands-on workshop delivered by IBM. Students will leave with an end-to-end Watson Studio project that analyzes employee sentiment through social media networks, as well a thorough understanding of the toolset. No prior experience is required! Challenge Release Date: March 17th @ 9 am ET Please sign up your team (2-4 members) to get access to the challenge and engage with IBM challenge mentors. Challenge Submission Deadline: March 22nd @ 9 am ET Please submit your response to the Riipen Challenge no later than March 22nd @ 9 am ET

What is the Pre-Hackathon Networking Café? Health Innovation Week 2019 is kicking off with an exciting 3-day hackathon March 29th - 31st at MaRS Discovery District. Before this hackathon, Hacking Health TO is hosting a Networking Café for participants to learn about the issues in community health, understand tips for participating in the hackathon, and network with other participants. This café will also be a great opportunity to meet potential team members and learn from community leaders. Featured speakers include individuals from SE Health, specialists in Intellectual Property Law, and Design Thinking methodologies. What is Hacking Health TO? Hacking Health is an international movement designed to improve healthcare by inviting technology creators and healthcare professionals to collaborate on realistic, human-centric solutions to front-line problems. Learn more about Hacking Health here.  What is a Hackathon? Hacakthons are amazing innovation competitions which bring together people from multiple disciplines to solve problems. At Hacking Health events these disciplines can include tech, business, health, and most importantly, patients! Participants meet, ideate, and form teams to solve today's biggest healthcare challenges by pulling together all their skills and knowledge with support from mentors from all sectors. The design thinking framework is used as the backbone of the hacking process, to ensure that solutions address the end users' problems. It also helps teams focus their creative energy to build out a prototype to show at the demo presentation on the final day. Tentative Schedule:  6:00 - 6:30: Networking & Registration  6:30 - 6:45: Welcome & Introductions  6:45 - 7:30: Presentations 7:30 - 8:15: Team Building Activities 8:15 - 9:00: Networking & Concluding Remarks Food & refreshments will be served.

Data Science has been one of the most in demand jobs for the past few years. Data Science skills have become a critical asset in any career, business, or academic program. This workshop will introduce you to skills, tools, and education that will help kick-start your data science journey. In addition, it will provide you with a curated guide to resources in the city that can help you connect with other data scientists and further grow these skills.  If you are a student interested in learning a new skill, a professional interested in pursing data science, or a data enthusiast who wants to know what data science is all about, then this workshop is for you! Over the span of two days, we will provide you with:  An overview of the programming languages used in data science Hands-on coding exercises to learn Python programming An introduction to machine learning techniques  A deep dive into a machine learning model with implementation in Python Hackathon style prediction challenges with hands-on help from the instructors Tips on data science skills and qualities needed in the job industry and how to develop them A guide to resources and events that will help you develop your programming and machine learning skills Please Note: The target audience for this event: anyone interested in learning about data science The workshop spans over 2 days. Day one ends at 5pm and day 2 resumes on Sunday at 10am. The ticket includes access to both days. Please bring your laptop for the hands-on coding sessions. No programming background is required for this workshop. Lunch will be provided on both days. Some of the proceeds from this event will sponsor our upcoming high school coding workshops.  If you have any questions, please feel free to email us contact@thecodinghive.com or call (905) 616-4836.

Combine your love of code, design, big data, and baseball at the second annual Baseball Hackday Hackathon in Toronto! This special one day event will take place on March 9th, 2019 at Ryerson's iBoost Zone and we will be hacking along with teams in Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati, Los Angeles, New York, San Diego, Seattle, and the Twin Cities. We will all participate in the development of baseball-related projects and experiments to see if can make something awesome with technology. By participating, you will be part of a group that joins technology with sports and our hope is to bring technology and sports communities together. Using your creativity along with baseball, you can make, a web app, a mobile app, a web site, or data visualization. The majority of your coding must happen during the event. Some work done prior to the event is allowed, but it should be disclosed at your demo. Prototypes/mockups for demo are OK, but working websites or mobile apps are strongly encouraged. And afterwards, you'll get the opportunity to show your stuff to our judging panel of Toronto technology and sports super-stars!  Designers, developers, statisticians, big data enthusiasts, and baseball fans are welcome to participate! We are looking for sponsors to help offset the costs of hosting our event and judges to evaluate the projects and then present the winning team with a grand prize. There is no cost to attend and participate in the event but there are limited spots so book early. You are welcome to sign up alone or with a team. Ideally, teams won't exceed 5 members.  Checkout www.baseballhackday.com/toronto for more information. New to hack days? Have no fear. Check out https://baseballhackday-2018.devpost.com/ to see last year’s submissions Check out resources in https://github.com/baseballhackday/data-and-resources/wiki/Resources-and-ideas Check out http://baseballhackday.tumblr.com/ for an inspiration blog on tumblr Have a question? E-mail baseball.hackday.toronto@gmail.com 

Civic Tech Toronto invites you to CodeAcrossTO - a civic hackathon where you can take on public challenges using data, design and development. No technical background is assumed nor required. _____________  CodeAcrossTO is a volunteer-run civic hackathon held each year on Open Data Day. We centre Toronto's community needs and bring together its talent across disciplines to seed solutions through design and technology. It's an all-ages, all-abilities event. Our format? Come for the challenges that speak explicitly to Toronto's sustainable future, facilitated by rad folks like Law & Design Colab (working to improve legal accessibility), OPIRG Toronto (environment/social justice research and action group), FreeGeek (educational and reusable tech, and Toronto Environment & Energy (driving Toronto's #TransformTO climate action plan forward). Attendees can join a challenge that interests them for the day. There are broadly four steps to our hackathon: 1. Research and map our community's diverse needs2. Think tools, sustainability, technology3. Build solutions in breakout groups4. Share progress Unlike traditional hackathons, we're not expecting a working prototype at the end of the day, but the foundation for a thoughtful solution to the problem at-hand. Think of CodeAcrossTO as a pop-up public process incubator: to build connections and have enough fun doing it that we continue long after the event is done. _____________  This year we're excited to announce our theme: Toronto's Take on Sustainable Development The UN's Sustainable Development Goals are a call for action by all countries to promote prosperity while protecting the planet. What are some Toronto-specific solutions for poverty, health, food, and the other UN Sustainable Development Goals? How do we design inclusive, collaborative solutions that work for our city and ultimately have a global impact on sustainability? Goal 1: End poverty in all its forms Goal 2: Zero Hunger Goal 3: Health Goal 4: Education Goal 5: Gender equality and women’s empowerment Goal 6: Water and Sanitation Goal 7: Energy Goal 8: Economic Growth Goal 9: Infrastructure, industrialization Goal 10: Inequality Goal 11: Cities Goal 12: Sustainable consumption and production Goal 13: Climate Change Goal 14: Oceans Goal 15: Biodiversity, forests, desertification Goal 16: Peace, justice and strong institutions Goal 17: Partnerships _____________  Our Challenges* Making our built environment more accessible Expanding access to reliable internet & hardware Reducing individual carbon footprints Reducing waste & energy consumption in our everyday spaces Expanding advocacy Legal Accessibility: Redesigning the Ontario Standard Form Lease *These challenges have been modified to reflect facilitator schedule changes. _____________  Location & Accessibility Artscape Daniels Launchpad is on the 4th floor of the East Tower on 130 Queens Quay East. The building is a Platinum LEEDS-certified building, is wheelchair-accessible and AODA-compliant. There are accessible, gendered, and non-gendered washrooms. Please scroll down for additional FAQs. FAQs   I am not a technologist and I have not attended a hackathon before Fantastic! Come with your enthusiasm for making Toronto more sustainable. Your input is valuable and we would appreciate having you there. No technical background is assumed nor required for participants. I have attended a hackathon before  Also excellent! You will likely find CodeAcrossTO to be a non-traditional hackathon based on collaboration and deliberation. Do I need a team? How prepared should I be? You do not need a team! Come as you are, though of course we'd love for you to spread the word to friends. We encourage all participants to do two things: 1) maximise the number of strangers in your group, and 2) keep an open mind and try something new. I am interested in attending but am concerned about barriers to participationWe are 100% committed to making this event as accessible as possible. We are also happy to waive the registration fee to eliminate any financial barriers to participation. Co-chairs, Alex and Laura (dotoriworks@gmail.com) are happy to follow up on any specific concerns. Are there ID or minimum age requirements to enter the event? No. This will be an all-ages event though please note it is not designed specifically for children younger than high school. All minors must be accompanied by a guardian. What about food and refreshments? No one can hack on an empty stomach! We'll provide light breakfast, all-day coffee, and snacks throughout the day. We'll do our best to acommodate different dietary restrictions. Please reach out if you have specific concerns. What are my transportation/parking options for getting to and from the event? TBD. Check back! What can I bring into the event? We encourage you to bring laptops, tablets, chargers, crafting supplies, a reuseable waterbottle and anything else you need for a productive day.  How can I contact the organizer with any questions? Co-chairs, Alex and Laura (dotoriworks@gmail.com) are happy to follow up on any specific concerns.