List of hackathons in Berlin, United States in 2018

HACKATHON DETAILS Registration closed November 8, 2018. If you've already registered, updated details have been sent to the e-mail address on your registration. Details can also be found below:  If participants are under the age of 18, a waiver must be signed by a parent and turned in to us for the student to participate in the Hackathon. The waiver can be printed from this link.  If you do not turn in the form, you will not be allowed to enter the event. All participants, including those under the age of 18, are required to sign Cleveland State University’s Code of Conduct. The form can be printed from this link, and it needs to be turned in upon entering the event.  Do you need to find a team? There will be time after the Keynote Speaker & Event Overview on Friday evening for you to find and match up with team members. ADDRESS Cleveland State University, Washkewicz Hall 2300 Chester Avenue Cleveland, OH 44115 IMPORTANT PARKING & BUILDING ENTRANCE INFO Hackathon attendees are permitted to use the Prospect Parking Garage: 2350 Prospect Avenue, Cleveland, OH 4115. Attendees are required to use a parking permit if they are using the garage. The permit can be printed from this link.  Please click this Hackathon Campus Map PDF for directions you must follow to use the parking garage, and how to get from the parking garage to Washkewicz Hall. These buildings are 1 block apart from each other.    If you are not using the parking garage, the corner of East 24th Street and Chester Avenue is the best spot to get dropped off or picked up at any time during the weekend. You are welcome to stay at Washkewicz Hall throughout the entire weekend, just make sure to bring whatever personal items you may need with you. There will be security personnel on site during the entire event. You will be able to come and go as you please throughout the weekend, and you are not required to stay on campus overnight.  FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 9 5PM- Doors open for registration and dinner will be served 6PM- Keynote Speaker & Event Overview Our Keynote Speaker will be Matthew Johnson, Head of the Dan T. Moore Makerspace Lab at Cleveland State University’s Washkewicz College of Engineering 7PM- Hacking begins! SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 10 8-10AM- Breakfast will be available 12-2PM- Lunch will be available 6-8PM- Dinner will be available SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 11 8-10AM- Breakfast will be available 10AM- Code cut off, all projects are wrapped up 11AM- Judging starts 12PM- Lunch will be served 1:30PM (Roughly)- Prizes and Awards for the top teams will be announced MATERIALS & RESOURCES Remember to bring your own computers/laptops and chargers. We will have enough power supply for everyone. If you marked on your registration that you do not have your own laptop, we will be reaching out to you with a separate message.   BLOCKCHAIN DEVELOPMENT RESOURCES This hackathon will be a great educational experience for participants to challenge themselves to learn more about blockchain technologies. If you’re new to blockchain and don’t know what tools to use, please see the below suggestions (and do some research on them before the Hackathon): Modern web browser: Chrome, Firefox or Opera MetaMask extension for any of the above browsers Remix, a website-based IDE for Ethereum PRIZES There will be prizes for the top teams in each of the following categories: High School College Industry Professionals FOOD Meals, beverages and snacks will be provided throughout the weekend. If you have dietary restrictions, we recommend packing some food in case we don’t have what you need to eat. SOCIAL MEDIA Feel free to post about the event on social media using #BlocklandCLE18   If you have any questions, please contact hackathon@blocklandcleveland.com.   These events are being held in partnership with the Blockland Solutions Conference. The above Workshop and Hackathon are different events than what is being offered at the Conference. However, attending the Workshop and the Hackathon can help better prepare you if you'd like to attend the Solutions Conference in December. For more information on the Blockland Solutions Conference on December 1-4, click here.   

Join us for the next iteration of #Fix216! We’re intentionally bringing together people from Tech, Design, Community Organizing, and Policy backgrounds to ensure we hear from a diverse set of opinions and generate solutions that represent a wide variety of experiences. Fix216: Criminal Justice Reform is Friday, October 26, 2018, Doors Open @ 5pm | 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm. Following that, we will reconvene Saturday morning at 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 pm *Up to $10,000 in prizes are available for the top team(s) to help them follow through and develop their ideas into sustainable, publicly available applications. **If you would like to volunteer, be sure to indicate it by selecting the radio button on the registration form! It's the final selection.  All people who have an interest in supporting criminal justice reform in Ohio are welcomed to attend. You do not need to hold a formal role or be a technologist to be a apart of the solution. The only requirement is a desire to affect change! #SocialJusticeTechThe event would not be possible if it were not for the support of our funders! Please join us in commending our supporters: The Cleveland Foundation The George Gund Foundation Microsoft Digitial C’s MidTown Tech Hive We are incredibly grateful to be a member of the CRTL+ATL+CLE civic collaborative network! Learn More: On November 22, 2014, a 12-year-old boy playing alone in a familiar place became a martyr for a cause he didn’t volunteer to serve. Hack Cleveland came together as a response to the police involved killing of Tamir Rice. As a direct action, Hack Cleveland organized the city’s first civic hackathon called "FIX 216." A civic hackathon is an event where people work together with urgency and creativity to produce a technical solution that will make their cities better. #FIX216 engaged Cleveland residents to produce technical solutions that would facilitate an open dialogue, idea generation, and awareness-building around public safety, excessive force and the Department of Justice consent decree in Cleveland. It was held May 29th and 30th, 2015, and welcomed a diverse group of more than 70+ attendees, who came together to create five projects addressing various challenges facing Cleveland. To build upon "FIX 216" and our work since 2015, Hack Cleveland is organizing a community-centered event that will focus on sustainable solutions that will advance criminal justice reform. The event is akin to a hack-a-thon, and is aptly called a scope-a-thon. The purpose of a scope-a-thon is to scope out problems, break the problems down into manageable parts, and develop a plan to address them. While traditional hackathons are often focused on creating a technical tool during the event, a scope-a-thon focuses on understanding the purpose and use of technology in helping solve problems. A key component is centering and amplifying the voices of people who have lived experiences in our communities and to listen to them prior to and during the process of designing, testing and implementing a technical solution. Similar to a hackathon, scope-a-thons also feature teams but require that teams are led by community organizations and activists, with developers, designers, and data scientists supporting their needs.

Blockchain - how does one get started? Come join the leaders of the local Blockland initiative for an Introduction to Blockchain class where we'll cover everything from smart contracts, cryptocurrencies, and the real use-cases being implemented locally and throughout the world. These classes are for all blockchain and/or development experiences to align with the Blockland Solutions Hackathon November 9th-11th. Please register for only one of the below date options:  Wednesday, October 23 5:30-8PM (in conjunction with the October Crypto Cleveland Meetup, pizza is provided) Saturday, October 27 1-3PM Attendance at this workshop is highly encouraged if you plan to attend the Blockland Solutions Hackathon, but have no experience with blockchain. If you cannot attend the Workshop in person, it will be live streamed and recorded. Please note in your registration if you will be attending in person or via live stream. We will share the live stream information with registered participants.  *There is no cost involved to attend the Workshop or Hackathon* These events are being held in partnership with the Blockland Solutions Conference. This Workshop is different than what is being offered at the Blockland Solutions Conference, and we hope to see you there, too!

During Kent State University's annual Fashion Tech Hackathon weekend, LaunchNET Kent State, Hacksu, and The Research Center for Educational Technology (RCET) will be hosting a tech workshop for high school students to teach website construction, Arduino use, 3D Modeling/VR and more. RCET: The overall mission of RCET is to serve as the University and College’s flagship center for research, policy, and practice related to cutting-edge technologies in teaching and learning. Such technologies have included 3D, mobile learning, online and blended learning, games and simulations, and virtual reality. Hacksu: Hacksu is a student organization at Kent State University focused on learning and utilizing contemporary web and mobile technologies. We are a very diverse community, spanning multiple majors from Fashion Design to Zoology and are open to students of any skill level. Everyone is welcome.