List of hackathons in Computing Drive, Singapore in 2018

IDEA HACKS IS BACK! The IDEAS Hub's premier student-led hackathon for 11 - 18 year olds is here for you to take your first steps into tech superstardom. Happening from the 9 - 11 November 2018,  this incomparable learning experience will feature the best 101s, quality mentors, the tastiest food and an unforgettable experience for all. This year, we're challenging you to come up with products that define what the future will be. How do you think the world will look like 5 to 10 years from now? Create a product that fits the slogan 'The Future of _____" and stand win $2,000 worth of prizes. So what are you waiting for? Please note that registration closes on the 20th of October 2018.   FAQs  What will I need to bring?A laptop, a water bottle to keep yourself hydrated and an open mind to try things you haven't done before. Please wear covered shoes as the venue is a Makerspace. Will teams be assigned to us?If you don't have a team, we can help you find one as we get closer to the competition. If you do have a team, do get them to sign-up as well. The form is structured as an individual sign-up to help us keep track of participants better. Are there ID or minimum age requirements to enter the event?This competition is open to all youths aged 11 - 18.  Can I join if I am 18 or under but in a university?Due to the wide range of age, we are unable to accomodate university-going participants at the moment. Do I need prior programming knowledge to join?Not at all! Instead, think of IDEA Hacks as an opportunity for you to stretch yourself and learn a new technical skill. What can I bring into the event?You can bring laptop, any hardware / dev boards you own. Please note that you are not allowed to bring completed pieces of code as a major component of your final prototype.   Will food be provided?Yup, food will be provided. Please note that we will prepare vegetarian and non-vegetarian   Will there be photographs and videos taken during the event?Yes, please note that video and photographs will be taken of all participants as a condition for joining IDEA Hacks. By signing up for this competition, you grant UWCSEA its representatives and employees the right to take photographs of you and the work you produce at the hackathon. You also agree that UWCSEA may use these photographs with or without your name for any lawful purpose, including for example such purposes as publicity, illustration, advertising, and Web content.   Does UWCSEA own the prototype that I created?No, your ideas are your own. We do however, require you to return any devices and tools that have you been loaned out to you in the course of this competition.   How can I contact the organizer with any questions?For further information, please contact the IDEA Hacks team at ideahacks@uwcsea.edu.sg.

Idea Hacks began as a small community project two years ago by a group of high school students who were frustrated that hackathons were out of reach for anyone under 18 years old. Intending to organize an event for all the tech-minded students in Singapore, little did he know almost 200 people would sign up! Sponsored by Acronis, Carousell and Sodexo, stand a chance to win more than $3,000 of prizes.

Are you ready to raise funds for your startup/business? Do you have what it takes to impress the investors to invest into your business? 90% of investment pitches fail!!  Much of the succeses we have in life, both personal and professional, will depend on how well we “pitch” ourselves, or more simply how well we “sell” ourselves. A pitch should tell the story of you and/or your business. A bad pitch can cost you more than just a second meeting. Raising capital from investors can be very challenging and time-consuming. Therefore, it is always crucial that we convey in a manner that shows our business as a compelling and interesting story. At the end of the workshop, learners should be able to: 1) Identify what the investors are looking for; 2) Script an Elevator Pitch to create an initial impression; 3) Build a Pitch Deck as an exciting and compelling story to showcase to investors; 4) Practise using body language and voice variation to deliver your story; and 5) Create an effective “call-to-action” to entice the investors. This limited-run, highly experiential MasterClass is suitable for any startup and entrepreneur who is planning to pitch for funding (be it government grant or angel investments). The workshop is intentionally designed to be delivered in small group (max: 20 pax) to foster maximum interaction, allowing learners to work on their individual pitches and get constructive feedback from an entrepreneur/investor himself as well as from the rest of the learners, therefore it has limited seats.  To avoid disappointment, please register early. Usual fees: SGD400. Now: SGD180. *SPECIAL* To help startups to define their business models, pitch decks and pitching, learners of this workshop will get 2 complimentary hour of individualised coaching (Valued at $300) from the trainer. The coaching is valid for 3 months from end of workshop. Learners of this workshop will be guaranteed a spot to pitch to early-stage investors for seed funding.  What people say "After attending the workshop and applying the learning, I'd successfully raised $100,000 the next day for my business. Thank you for the lessons taught.” ~ Lee Van Voon, Founder of Gills & Fins Pte Ltd "The content of the workshop is really helpful and well-organised. The highlight is that the trainer provides real world examples combined with his own experience and expertise.” ~ Jenna, Temasek Polytechnic Guest Trainer: Steven Ong Steven is the Principal Trainer and MD of ForwardLeap Training Lab as well as the MD of Co-V, a coworking space. Prior to his current position, he had been the MD of a serviced office operator; MD of an angel investment company; CEO of a 2,000 members strong industry association and CMO of a regional corporate training and business consultancy company.  Besides mentoring start-ups and personally invested in a few businesses, Steven had been invited to judge many pitching events, included EDGE Hack 2017, Republic Polytechnic Pitch Day 2017, Singapore Institute of Technology inaugural Hackathon 2017, INSEAD Demo Day 2017 etc. He is currently a Start-up Mentor with Temasek Polytechnic, Republic Polytechnic and TRIVE (Venture Capital) Next50 initiative. Steven is a regular regional speaker and trainer on topics relating to Personal Financial Planning and Entrepreneurship. He had trained many startups in SUSS, CFS, ICE71, Temasek Polytechnic and many organisations on Entrepreneurship and Pitching. He was recently invited as the keynote speaker for an international youth entrepreneurship and leadership conference and was awarded the Best Speaker for the event.

We’re excited to announce that we will be supporting World MoveIt! Day on October 26th in Singapore to support the Asia Pacific Region! The event is a day long international hackathon to improve the MoveIt! code base, documentation, and community. We hope to close as many pull requests and issues as possible and explore new areas of features and improvements for the now five year old framework. Description World MoveIt! Day is an international hackathon to improve the MoveIt! code base, documentation, and community. We hope to close as many pull requests and issues as possible and explore new areas of features and improvements for the now five year old framework. A video feed will unite the various locations and enable more collaboration. Logistics What version of MoveIt! should you use? We recommend the Kinetic LTS branch/release. The Lunar release is simply a copy of the Kinetic branch (it is not forked yet) and the Indigo branch is considered “stable” and only bug fixes should be backported. Finding Where You Can Help Visit the link here for more information http://moveit.ros.org/ Video Conference For Asia Pacific, please register and select the ticket type by video conference.

Technologists, scientists, designers, artists, educators, entrepreneurs, developers, and students in and around Singapore! NASA has commissioned the NASA International Space Apps Challenge (ISAC) to get people around the world to collaborate on its mission directives. If you're interested in space travel, then you are invited to sign up for the Singapore edition. You'll be part of a 48-hour global collaborative hackathon focused on space exploration.

The NASA Space Apps Challenge is one of the largest hackathons in the universe and part of the Open Government Partnership. Coders, scientists, designers, storytellers, makers, builders, technologists, and everyone enthusiastic about curiosity come together over the weekend to address challenges we face on Earth and in space!  To gear up for the Hackathon, join us at the Pre-hackathon Workshop (16 October) where you will to learn more about the Hackathon challenges, be inspired by invited experts and network with people of similar interest. Don’t forget to sign up for the NASA Space Apps Challenge 2018 where you can show us your problem-solving skills and share your talents with the world!  Registration site: https://2018.spaceappschallenge.org/locations/singapore/ If you have any questions, please send us an email at info@padang.co.

Hedera 18 Hackathon - Singapore The Hedera18 Hackathon—the first global, decentralized hashgraph hackathon—will gather developers to compete in nine cities around the world: Dallas, Bangalore, London, Moscow, Paris, San Francisco, São Paulo, Singapore, and Tel Aviv. This two-day hackathon will give you an opportunity to build what’s next in fast-moving categories, including gaming, social causes, and micro-payments. Start now to envision your next big idea for an entirely new class of applications on the world’s fastest distributed ledger platform!  Hackathon Challenge: Using Hedera Hashgraph APIs, teams can be inspired to take advantage of the high throughput, low consensus latency, and transaction order fairness to build DApps in categories such as gaming, supply chain, social causes, micropayments, and IoT. Winning teams will earn Hedera tokens and a chance to have your project incubated and deployed on the Hedera hashgraph platform. Prizes: 1 Grand Prize winner: 50k3 Local winners per location: 1st: 10k | 2nd: 7k | 3rd: 3k (prizes will be a combination of Hedera coin and USD) Judging Criteria (25% for each): Feasibility - Is the solution possible, or just nice in theory?Innovation - Is the project new and disruptive?Challenge fit - how relevant is the project to the stated challenge?Technical execution - how has the team effectively utilized the available technologies? How easy is the application to use? How advanced is the prototype presented? Global Judges: Leemon Baird - Co-Founder & Chief Scientist at Hedera Hashgraph Mance Harmon - Co-Founder & CEO and  at Hedera Hashgraph Ken Anderson - Lead Developer Advocate at Hedera Hashgraph Karen Salay - COO & Founder of PlayDFS / Chat Goose Hackathon Schedule: October 15th (all times local) 8am - Check in + Grab breakfast 9am - Kickoff + Opening presentations 10am - Idea pitches 10:30am - Team formation 11am- Hacking begins 1pm - Lunch 6pm - Dinner Overnight coding October 16th (all times local) 8am - Breakfast 9am - Welcome + Final demo tips from BeMyApp 10am - A/V check 1pm - Lunch 2pm - Code freeze 2:30pm - Final demos begin 5pm - Demos end / Judges deliberation 6pm - Local Winners announcement 6:30pm - End October 17th  6pm CT - Global winner announcement from the main stage at the Hedera 18 Conference in Dallas. All Global hackathon participants will tune in to hear the winner announcement over a live-stream via zoom. Resources Learn more about the platform: https://www.hederahashgraph.com/platform What is Hedera Hashgraph?The Hedera hashgraph platform provides a new form of distributed consensus; a way for people who don’t know or trust each other to securely collaborate and transact online without the need for a trusted intermediary. The platform is lightning fast, secure, and fair, and, unlike some blockchain-based platforms, doesn’t require compute-heavy proof-of-work. Hedera enables and empowers developers to build an entirely new class of distributed applications that were never before possible.

Hedera Hashgraph is the world’s fastest distributed ledger platform where you can build an entirely new class of distributed applications that were never before possible. In this two-day, first-ever global decentralized hashgraph hackathon, using Hedera Hashgraph APIs, you will build what’s next in the fast-moving categories — from gaming, social causes to micro-payments. Register now to envision your big idea to life.

The first F10 FinTech Hackathon in Singapore was a success! 24 teams worked on FinTech Challenges, and this might very well be the kick-off of an entrepreneurial FinTech journey for some of the Hackathon participants! The F10 team warmly invites you to a FinTech Meetup as a follow-up of the F10 FinTech Hackathon Singapore, where the winning teams will once again present their business ideas and prototypes. Learn what the teams have developed during the Hackathon and find out how you might work together to bring the solution forward. Agenda:6.00 - 6.15 pm: Doors Open6.15 - 6.30 pm: Hackathon Throwback  6.30 - 7.00 pm: Hackathon Winners Present Their Projects7.00 - 7.15 pm: Life After Hackathon or How To Build a Startup7.15 - 9.00 pm: Networking, Drinks & Mini-Exhibition Please enter through the Event Space entrance. There will be signs!  See you there! The F10 Team 

Last year, we organized the first edition of What The Hack (WTH) – which saw more than a hundred participants from Singapore and overseas come together to design and build solutions for real-world problems. After a short span of 24 hours, the judges saw an impressive variety of hacks. Many of the hacks displayed design thinking, strong engineering skills, and creative application of new technologies.   This year, we are inspired to make WTH even bigger and better. We hope you can join us.   What The Hack @ SUTD is a 24 Hour hackathon that aims to bring together people of multiple disciplines and provides them with the resources to jumpstart their ideas. This year, we have carved out a special category for Virtual Reality (VR) to see what interesting hacks can come out of this exciting space!  What you get out of What The Hack: Bring crazy ideas to life Learn to use VR-related software and hardwares!  Network with our sponsors! Come solo or come as a team! Gather your fellow hackers with a maximum team number of 4 or come down and form teams on the day itself! You can go at the theme's solo too! Who knows! You might even be able to have a bigger share of the prize! Themes Defying Reality:  Education  Smart Cities Art & Design  Prizes Grand Prize: $1,000 SGD + 3 x AMD RX 580 Graphics card Best VR Hack Prize: Sponsored flight and accomodation to China in October for Global VR Competition + 2 x AMD RX 580 Graphics card Best Education Hack: $250 Best Smart Cities Hack: $250  Best Art and Design Hack: $250  For more information. Please visit www.sutdwth.com FAQs Are there ID or minimum age requirements to enter the event? You need to be 13 and above to participate in this hackathon. For participants under 18 you will need to have a parents signature for the indemnity form.   What are my transport/parking options for getting to and from the event? If you are taking public transport, you can take bus 2 and 24 from Tanah Merah MRT and bus 5 from SimeiIf you are driving, you can park in SUTD's basement carpark   What can I bring into the event? Your laptop, materials that you plan to use for your prototype.   How can I contact the organiser with any questions? Please drop an email to queries@sutdwth.com