List of hackathons in Brighton, United States in 2017

Babson College students, alumni, and faculty. Interested in FinTech and blockchain? Developing innovative ideas? Babson College and Sallie Mae invite you to a "design thinking hackathon" to develop innovative FinTech ideas for the biggest financial problems that you are facing as students. No technical skills required!

Students, innovators, scientists, and clinicians in the Boston area! The Bay Area Lyme Foundation invites you to participate in the Lyme Innovation Hackathon 2017 #hackLyme. The theme of the event is to combat Lyme disease -- the world's fastest-spreading vector-borne illness. You'll be challenged to develop an innovative solution in one of the following areas: the incubation of an accurate diagnostic, or the development of effective medical treatment options for late-stage Lyme/PTLDS.

Pakistani techies and other professionals in and around Boston! Have you considered one day going back to Pakistan? Or do you want your technology or business expertise help make a difference in developing countries? You're invited to participate in the Pakathon Boston Hackathon 2017. You'll get to network with your peers and collaborate to come up with an innovative solution to social problems faced in Pakistan and other countries. You'll work on problems around specific themes, such as Education, Energy, Healthcare, Financial Inclusion, and Agriculture.

Students, healthcare professionals, and technologists, entrepreneurs in the Boston Area! If you're interested in the application of technology to improve healthcare, then PastelHealth invites you to participate in the Chatbots for Health Challenge - SmartBot Hackathon. You'll be challenged to design and build an innovative new chatbot that helps solve a specific healthcare problem.

Engineers and techies in New England! If you're interested in digital health solutions, then you're invited to participate in the Halloween Hackathon. You'll be challenged to use cutting-edge technologies to solve real-world problems for digital health -- for example: build an Amazon echo app, configure personalized, secure QR codes, or leverage facial recognition software.

Government sector developers and IT pros in the Boston area! You're invited to participate in the Microsoft Azure Government HackFest + Training in Burlington, MA. You'll get to learn about the latest features and technology available on the Azure Government platform. You'll then get to put that learning to practical use in building a solution to a given government challenge. Present your project to a jury of experts for a chance to win an award.

Designers, coders, hackers, artists, engineers in Boston and New England! Are you passionate about virtual and augmented reality applications? You're invited to participate in the Reality, Virtually, Hackathon at the MIT Media Lab. Come and network with the best-of-the-best in VR/AR applications. Showcase your skills and create your own exciting app in one of the following categories Healthcare and Medicine, Entertainment, Education, Sports, Architecture, Engineering and Construction, Gaming, or Retail.

As part of the four days long Reality, Virtually Hackathon weekend industry leaders will run workshops that are open to the general public. Come and listen to talks about AR and VR development tools, mobile platforms and room scale VR platforms and AR headsets. We have talented speakers coming to the MIT Media Lab for the Reality Virtually Hackathon to talk about Unity, WebVR. ThreeJS, AR and VR design, the Hololens and the Meta 2, and much more.  The detailed workshop schedule will be updated in the coming days.  Location: Bartos theatre in Building E15 lower level, 20 Ames St, Cambridge, MA 02139.  

If you're in the Boston Area and you'd like to help eliminate racism, then the Mission Institute invites you to participate in the Dismantling Racism Hackathon at MIT. Come and collaborate with like-minded individuals to hack away at racism! You don't need to have an Hackathon experience -- just come and participate. You'll be challenged to come up with innovative ways to help dismantle racism!

Data scientists, engineers, designers! Are you fascinated by the use of technology for social good?You're welcome to sign up to participate in the Data For Democracy Hackathon - Boston. You'll be challenged to collaborate on projects that use data in order to promote positive for social impact. At this event, you can choose to work on a project related to traffic on the City of Boston, or bring your own project and work on that.