List of hackathons in Worcester, United Kingdom in 2017

HackerNest Tech Socials are a fun, relaxed way to connect with your local tech community. Atmosphere: chill, friendly, unpretentious, agenda-free (no sales pitch), and brimming with Ultra Smart People.  Follow us on Twitter and Instagram, like us on Facebook, hi-5 us in person! The typical Tech Social agenda:   - folks arrive, grab drinks, socialize   - quick announcements, thank sponsors   - back to chatting   - head home, exhilarated from great conversations!   *** COURTHACK 2017 On April 22-23, we’re partnering with the National Center for State Courts to produce our 2nd annual CourtHack, the US Justice System hackathon dedicated to improving access to justice for everyone! It’ll be at the New Jersey Law Center in New Brunswick (which, just FYI, is in New Jersey). LIMITED SPACES! Enter now at courthack.org. *** HackerNest Tech Socials are Entry by Donation - any amount appreciated, but $5 suggested. No amount is too little! If a cash donation is too restrictive, please join us anyway – just let us know at the door. *** SPONSOR: RBC RBC recently launched RBC Research, a team which supports RBC’s innovation strategy through fundamental scientific study and exploration in machine learning theory and applications with the goal of developing state-of-the-art financial technologies. RBC is also an active contributor to the Canadian innovation ecosystem, including working with organizations like TechToronto, the C100 and as a founding partner of NextAI, a global innovation program for artificial intelligence related ventures.  RBC has come onboard as a North American sponsor of Hackernest. Sponsors make this growing movement possible, so we treasure and build deep, long-term relationships with the companies that endorse us. We're always looking for new friends! Please email sponsor@hackernest.com. VENUE: Workbar Brighton Workbar understands that people don’t always work the way they used to. Technology has made the workforce more mobile, yet has also increased the need for shared resources, human interaction, and fun at work. So Workbar created a network of coworking spaces where independent professionals, start-ups, small businesses, and remote employees of larger enterprises can enjoy a vibrant community and high quality office amenities at an affordable price.  At convenient and accessible locations around the cities of Boston, Cambridge, Somerville, Arlington and beyond, they provide extraordinary shared office spaces. Workbar’s members work and grow with access to meeting rooms, event spaces, and a wide variety of social meetups and educational workshops. In a nutshell, Workbar offers the professionalism of a corporate office, the flexibility of a gym, and the comfort of a cafe.  We're on the lookout for easy to access offices with space that can fit our audience (standing-room only). Please email info@hackernest.com or leaf.jiang@hackernest.com  if you’d like to host a Tech Social! COMMUNITY PARTNERS: MIT IoT Hackathon Are you passionate about solving problems with tiny computers? Then come to MIT Internet of Things Hackathon, where we’ll task participants with building innovative IoT devices! This is a free event, but it's capped at 60 participants, so RSVP today!  If you’re a Community or Meetup group looking to promote an event or discount for HackerNest members, please email ryan.sykes@hackernest.com.  About Us: HackerNest is an international nonprofit uniting local tech communities through unpretentious Tech Socials and hackathons. We cram lots of smart, accomplished people into a room and get them talking to one another. Our relaxed, down-to-earth events attract a diverse and highly technical membership. Strict 'no-scuzzbag' policy. Want to volunteer at our HackerNest Tech Socials? Visit http://hackernest.com/volunteer/ for more information and to apply! 

MIT GOV/LAB is organizing We the People/Hack for Democracy to demonstrate MIT’s deep commitment to core American (and human) values of fairness, equality, and openness. In this one day hackathon, creative and compassionate people from across MIT and the Boston area will come together to tackle the immediate challenges U.S. organizations are now facing to safeguard these values. Sign up to help organizations like the ACLU and Let America Vote solve some of their technical challenges. Click here for more information

Hackers in the greater Boston area! If you're passionate about virtual and augmented realities, then sign up to participate in the VR EcoHack: Hacking the Future in VR, AR & 360. You'll be challenged to colloborate in a team to create climate change content in virtual reality, augmented reality and 360 video.

Healthcare entrepreneurs and technicians! Want to learn how hackathons have helped launch start-ups? Come and attend PULSECHECK: How HACKATHONS Create Companies. You'll hear how startups emerged from HACKATHONS with viable innovative Healthcare solutions. Following the presentations, attendees will have the opportunity to hack PulseCheck -- the winner will be awarded a Grand Prize.

From gentrification and increased evictions to trucks in the bike lane, Boston, like many cities, is filled with stories of urban tensions. But are there data to illustrate these conflicts? Can you find, merge and visualize data and other layers of information that can help reveal new, original insights about the city’s urban tensions?   On Saturday, April 8, from 9am to 3pm, Northeastern University will be hosting "Urban Tensions," a hackathon where participants will explore urban data – from crime to housing to transportation to energy – to tell compelling stories of cities and conflict.   Who can sign up and who will be there? The event is open to both students and professionals from any field. It will be kicked off with lightning talks on urban data, evictions and gentrification by: Ben Green, Boston’s Open Data ProjectChristine Dixon, deputy director of Project HopeWenfei Xu, research associate at MIT’s Civic Data Design Lab. What kind of stories are we looking for? - From the innovation district to East Boston, what does the push-and-pull between affordable housing and commercial real estate development look like? - Is Boston violent? Highlight the waxing and waning of crime across the city. - Quantify Boston’s aging infrastructure to pinpoint where it might fail first as well as where it's being updated. - How many bike lanes are overrun by 18-wheelers? Is there another way?   How will projects be judged? A panel of Northeastern professors from across the College of Arts, Media and Design will judge the submissions. Projects will be judged on their originality, the rigor of their data sourcing and analysis, and the accuracy and appeal of their visual storytelling. What are the prizes? Annual Hubway bike-sharing memberships. What kind of datasets are we talking about? Housing Boston approved building permits here or here Zillow Boston Median Listing Price per sq. ft. here Boston Airbnb listings, reviews data Boston neighborhood blight and building data here 2015 Greater Boston Housing Report Card here Housing a Changing City Boston 2030 here Housing data 1950-2010 here City of Boston-owned property here Boston Metropolitan Area Planning Council housing data here Freddie Mac fixed-rate mortgage dataset from 1999-2015 here Transportation Boston Hubway bicycle trip data here Bicycle collisions in Boston (2009-2012) here Boston existing bicycle network here Boston taxi data May 2012 – Nov 2012 here Cambridge daily traffic counts 1972-2017 here Massachusetts real-time roadway travel feed here Crime and complaints Boston homicides data here Commonwealth Connect data (2009-2015) here Boston FIO (field interviews and observation) data here Boston crime incident reports (2015-now) here Boston Police Dept. license plate scanner data here Boston precincts data here Other Boston food pantry data here Boston schools public here and non-public here Boston census data in JSON here Boston 2010 census tracts hereGeographical data layers for Boston here

Developers, designers, problem solvers in New England! Are you interested in both technology and international development? IDHack Directors invite you to participate in IDHack 2017, the International Development Hackathon 2017. You'll be challenged to collaborate to create innovative technology approaches that help solve problems that organizations face in the international development.

Interested in the use of technologhy in the insurance sector? InsurTech Hartford invites you to participate in the InsurTech Business Plan Hackathon. Although this is not a coding event, both coding and non-coding professionals in Insurance Technology will get to collaborate with InsurTech startups and entrepreneurs. You goal will be to help them refine their business plans and identify steps that will help them take their ideas to the next level.

Student hackers at Northeastern University! The Generate and Wireless Club invites you to sign up to participate in the Hardware Hackathon: Club Snell Edition. Come up with a great idea for a hardware device that will make your Snell Library experience so much better! Got a crazy idea? Come and make it a reality! Collaborate and compete for prizes -- 1st, 2nd, 3rd place and Crowd Fave!

HackWitus is the first student run hackathon at Wentworth Institute of Technology (WIT). This is a 24 hour hackathon that will take place on March 25th to March 26th at Wentworth's Ira Allen Building. This event is made possible thanks to the Wentworth Computer Science Society, a chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery, along with support from many scholastic and administrative departments at WIT, Major League Hacking (MLH), and the generous sponsors that donated towards this event. At HackWitus, our goal is to give participants meaningful experiences and great opportunities. Our mission is simple: to promote learning, creativity, and innovation through a supporting and collaborative environment. As a HackWitus hacker, you will get the opportunity to learn about computer programming / hardware. In addition, you can learn how to apply your skills in a team competing for awesome prizes. Throughout the event, we will be hosting multiple workshops, fun activities, and offer you the opportunity to network with various companies that helped sponsor this event.  Please visit our official website hackwit.us for additional information and updates! FAQs How much does it cost to attend this event? Nothing. It is completely free. Are there ID or minimum age requirements to enter the event? Must be 18 years or older and a current college student. College ID required for admission into the event.  What are my transportation/parking options for getting to and from the event? Wentworth is right off the green line (E - Longwood Medical Area) and Orange Line (Ruggles). It is a relatively easy commute from any area around Boston, with numerous bus stops located around campus. Unfortunately, we cannot offer travel reimbursements at this time. What can I bring into the event? We recommend bringing a toothbrush, toothpaste, and / or deodorant for hygiene purposes. In addition, it is best to bring a pillow, small blanket, computer, chargers, and other essentials, such as your ID and wallet. Aside from that, be ready to use your creativity and motivation!  Will there be food at this event? Yes. There will be a ton of food. How can I contact the organizer with any questions? The HackWitUs organizers can be contacted at contact@hackwit.us  What's the refund policy? If complications arise and you cannot attend, we ask that you return your ticket as soon as possible on Eventbrite so that people on the wait list can have the chance to attend.    

Sponsored and presented by Genuine, the 2017 HackBeanpot competition features an immersive weekend-long workshop bringing together Boston’s up-and-coming collegiate developers to learn about new technologies and work intensively on software and design projects of their choice. Participating teams of all skill levels will show off their coding prowess and compete to create original projects incorporating APIs and services from companies such as Google, Amazon, IBM Watson, Spotify and Twitter. Winning projects, which are awarded prizes in various categories, will be judged based o original coding and design skills that articulate clear use cases for each team’s final product. Now in its fifth year, HackBeanpot emphasizes creating a diverse event, uniting college students around New England to work and learn as a team all while harnessing their creativity to develop something truly original. The three-day event also features a variety of presentations and hands-on workshops led by members of the region’s most prominent tech companies and start-ups. Additionally, each company provides mentors to help teams navigate through the development process of their projects or provide a boost to give a product that final push through the proverbial finish line. Many hackathons focus on specific themes or problems that need to be solved, with winners picked on how a project best solves a particular issue. HackBeanpot avoids this philosophy in favor of letting each team work on their own projects, this year with an added spotlight on “#InventTogether,” a phrase which originated from presenting partner Genuine.