List of hackathons in Kells, Ireland in 2017

STEM professionals, designers, engineers and media professionals in Ireland! Are you interested in creative uses of technology in the area of the arena of science communication? You're invited to participate in THINK: TANK -- a hackathon that is focused on the social good. You'll be challenged to collaborate on an innovative way to address one of three problems -- how to increase energy efficiency in the workplace, how to reduce plastic waste, or how to improve the work lives of migraine sufferers.

We’re inviting young people to join us for a day of technology-based fun in Maynooth Unversity. We’re looking for 1024 kids to take part. We’ll have coding workshops, demos from companies (big and small), talks and a hackathon. And all this FREE! We will be running beginner and intermediate Scratch workshops for the younger attendees along with WebDev and hardware workshops for the older age groups. These are aimed at across the skill levels so both existing attendees and those that might have a passing interest will find a workshop to suit on the day. Please take care in selecting workshops and filling out the required information as doing so incorrectly will make it harder for us to hold the required place and could result in places not being available.  Workshops: We will have four sessions over the day at 10.30am, 12pm, 2pm & 3.30pm . At the next stage, you will be able to select a timeslot followed by a workshop per person from the selection listed below. If your required workshop is greyed out in the session you are booking this means it is booked out and you will need to try another session. Beginners ScratchLearn how to program your own basic games and animations - Choose this workshop if you have never used the Scratch programming environment before. Intermediate ScratchLearn how to program more advanced games and animations - Choose this workshop if you have used the Scratch programming environment before. Beginners Web DesignLearn how to create your first website using HTML. Intermediate Web DesignLearn how to make a website interactive using HTML and Javascript. App InventorA visual programming environment that allows kids to build fully functional apps for smartphones and tablets. Raspberry Pi The Raspberry Pi is a micro-computer the size of a credit card. Learn how to write a simple program that controls a mini set of traffic lights.  

Dublin City University (DCU) students! Do you have a great startup idea? DCU Ryan Academy and Intel Ireland invite you to participate in the DCU Student SteAm Hackathon Weekend. You'll be challenged to pitch your startup idea to your student peers. Your project might be selected to be further developed by a team of students and presented to a jury of local entrepreneurs.

Design Meets Play - International Conference Design Meets Play brought to you by A Playful City - an international conference on the 17th of October in Dublin City with a host of inspirational speakers and diverse mix of attendees of all ages to discuss the serious business of play!  Together, we will explore key themes of interest identified via the public consultations and then with diverse stakeholders, and at the hackathon in the evening, we will take the learnings shared during the day and from the consultations to ‘hack’ play and develop prototypes for temporary interventions in proposed sites in Dublin. These interventions will then be implemented over the next months, into 2018.  **Design Meets Play is accredited by the RIAI for 8 Structured CPD Points** This event will take place on the 17th October in the Point Square. Tickets include tea/coffee as well as a lunch unlike any seen before, playfully imagined and created by Jennie Moran of Luncheonette. **It will not be possible to buy food from our caterer on the day - separate food tickets are available for those whose tickets do not come with food (ie Kids / young adults) **If you are interested in a special group ticket rate, please email us at playfulcity@gmail.com Speakers: UK // Amica Dall (Assemble Collective, Turner Prize winner) UK // Adrian Voce OBE (Child-friendly Cities Network) Ireland // Dr. Jackie Bourke (Child-friendly cities researcher and advocate) Holland // Elger Blitz (Carve) Scotland // Maguerite Hunter Blair (Play Scotland) Belgium // Eduardo Santander - (CEO European Travel Commission) France // Marine Cerceau (Le Jardins Du Rousseau - with the support of the Embassy of France in Ireland) Finland // Marketta Kyttä (Urban Planning / Child-Friendly cities expert) Denmark // Dorthe Pederson (Cycling Without Age) Holland // Jos de Krieger (Superuse Studios) Ireland // Rhona Byrne (Artist / community engagement) Ireland // Laurence Colleran (South Dublin Council) Ireland // Diana Oprea (youth representative UNICEF) Northern Ireland // Jacqueline O'Loughlin & Alan Herron (Playboard UK) Ireland // Joe Lyons (youth with leading role in Dominic play space project)Ireland // Phiip Halton (skateboarder / Cork Street Park) Extra extra info: Design Meets Play is the culmination of the first year of A Playful City project. A Playful City is a project exploring and responding to the need for a more playful, child-friendly, engaging and inclusive city. The purpose of A Playful City is to bring together diverse perspectives to co-create a city by and for its people. We are doing this through a series of steps that will ultimately lead to playful interventions implemented in the city centre of Dublin. To start our user-driven process we invited over a hundred stakeholders to our co-creation charrette in March - they helped us to understand our shared vision for Dublin as A Playful City and to shape the consultation process, leading up to the 17th October event.  A range of voices that have never before been in one room came together - from youth advocates to architects, NGOs to gamers, policy makers to designers, businesses, academics, city planners and more gathered at The Tara Building....You can see the video of our launch event on the Home page :) During the summer, we will bring A Playful City as a concept out to the public at large, engaging in consultations with people of all ages - but most importantly  - children and young people. The purpose of this is to really listen to and understand what the people of Dublin want in their city so that our approach can be bottom-up rather than top-down. To facilitate these consultations, partner Seán Harrington Architects is designing a playful mobile interactive installation, that will travel all over Dublin engaging children, young people and adults on their vision for the future design of public spaces in the city. We will also be engaging with over 2000 families living in the inner city (some of whom are homeless) through our partners in the Early Learning Initiative at the National College of Ireland. .. AND we'll be transforming Sheriff Street into A Playful Street on September 13th as part of our consultations -  AND some well-known street artists will be colouring some walls in the city with A Playful City messages and giving all people the opportunity to have their say on play - keep an eye out!  All of the data and networks developed will feed into and shape the content of the Design Meets Play conference on October 17th - with local and international speakers responding directly to the needs identified in Dublin by the people who live here. In the evening, a diverse array of stakeholders, children to designers, city councillors to artists and children’s rights advocates and more, will come together for the Hackathon for Play, creating prototypes for interventions in proposed city locations. Finally, the temporary interventions will be designed, and implemented in Spring 2018 - giving the city the first taste of our collective vision. The next steps? To continue and grow A Playful City each year. Thanks and a shout out to all our amazing participating partners: KLM, University College Dublin, Science Gallery Dublin, Seán Harrington Architects, UNICEF Ireland, Leave No Trace Ireland, Early Learning Initiative, National College of Ireland - IFSC, Early Childhood Ireland, Recreate Ireland, GoCar Ireland, Waterways Ireland, Streetfeast, Joined up, and Henry J Lyons Architects!

Theme - Encourage Children to do Sport - Using Electronics to promote Activities The Heritage at Killenard, Saturday Oct 14th Kindly Sponsored by ONSemi Conductors

The technological environment within which the sports performance analyst (PA) operates is movingat a faster pace than ever before, the number and functionality of the tools available to the analystare ever expanding. From the advent of ‘big data & data analytics’, to the proliferation of wearabletechnologies, and the advancing applications of machine learning and artificial intelligence in the sportsperformance context. These are fascinating areas for exploration and one which can challenge theanalyst given the wide variety and depth of information. Would you be interested to learn more aboutand extend your understanding of these emerging themes? As part of the upcoming Sport Ireland Institute HPX conference, the Sport Ireland Institute will be offering a one-dayhackathon targeted at the PA community in Ireland on the 5th October themed around the question: 'What is so important that we need to share it?’ As part of the conference proceedings and the 1 day gathering we offer the opportunity for you toconnect with and explore a Sport Analytics online course developed by Keith Lyons and colleagues atthe University of Canberra that covers such themes are:  • Informatics & Analytics  • Pattern recognition  • Monitoring performance  • Audiences and messagesOur intention is to embed this content into the discussion and to explore what we can share as anationwide community of practice. At the hackathon, the outline content will allow the attendees toexplore ideas and practices rather than raw data as you might be expected in the more traditionalhackathons. The discussion may go wherever the group wishes to go on the day along these themes. You shape the content: Ask the audienceIn preparation for the event please navigate your way through the themes and topics which happen tointerest you at this stage of journey along your PA pathway. Ahead of the event we will survey thosewho have registered to gauge the topics which you would like to see explored during the event.

ConneXions is a free two-day event which concentrates on digital technology, culture and education in France and Ireland. Aimed at professionals, students and people interested by these fields, it takes place in Richmond Barracks, Dublin 8. Register now to take part to this exciting forum and to : >>deep dive into the latest innovations in #tech, #education and #culture from France & Ireland>>debate on topical issues and explore the role of digital technology in the city>>see what solutions hackers can bring to tomorrow’s city thanks to the hackathon #HackYourCity! Detailed schedule coming soon – more info www.conneXions.ie ConneXions brings together French and Irish professionals, investors, students, accelerators and companies from these fields around the general topic of Digital & Creative City. Cities are the perfect field to develop creative and innovative ideas through digital technology but what will the city of tomorrow be like? What type of interactions will occur between the sectors of digital technology, education and culture? Deep dive into the latest innovations, connect with future investors and business partners, share experiences and success-stories, build new partnerships and create innovative projects!  

Blockchain developers in Ireland! Do you think the technology can be used for good? Accenture, Bank of Ireland and the Hyperledger community invite you to participate in the Blockchain4Good Hackathon in Dublin, Ireland. You'll be challenged to design and prototype an innovative solution to one of the problems of digital identity and product sustainability in the supply chain.

Join us on September 6th, 2017 at the Rotunda Hospital to learn how healthcare innovation ideas can come to life during a morning of keynote presentations by healthcare entrepreneurs, innovators, & industry experts. The morning session will be followed by a hackathon workshop where attendees will team up to tackle ‘Challenge Areas’ in maternal and newborn care. The hackathon teams will be supported by a multidisciplinary group of bioengineers, programmers, designers & innovation experts to help develop a solution to their ‘Challenge Area’ of interest. Join us to hear about: The healthcare innovation journey- from a healthcare provider/entrepreneur’s perspective. Addressing healthcare challenges with innovation in areas including care pathways, medical devices, information technology and more. An introduction to the steps in healthcare innovation; managing intellectual property, working with industry and getting your solution to patients. National support, education and funding programs for healthcare innovation.  Agenda: Looking forward to seeing you there!

Welcome to the AECOM WaterAid Charity Hackathon hosted by South West College. A fun and collaborative way to help solve a real world problem, learn new skills, meet people from industry and raise funds for a worthwhile cause. AECOM are working with WaterAid to help increase Hygiene awareness in Nicaragua and need your help to develop a method of tracking progress and identifying areas of concern using digital technology. Sign up as an individual challenger or as a team of 3-4 to participate in this Charity Hackathon. More details provided after registration.