List of hackathons in Cambridge, United States in 2017

The Youth Entrepreneurship Conference is an event designed to expose the youth of today to entrepreneurship and to exhibit the amazing things some local young entrepreneurs have already accomplished. This event is open to anyone, but we especially welcome kids, parents, and teachers to join us, as we hope to inspire more and more young individuals to pursue entrepreneurship and start their own businesses.  Find out more here: yesbostonyouth.weebly.com This year's topic will be education. We will see student groups from 3 different schools pitch their ideas on how to solve a problem in the field of education. The event will be held in conjunction with a student-run hackathon, called MAHacks. Find out more about MAHacks here: www.mahacks.com

Students & App Developers from across all Boston schools get together for an incredible day of hacking. Work together on a team or individually to build something cool!  10-hour sprint of ideas & coding. Prizes. Free food. Free swag. Bragging rights. Friends. Fun. THEME: HACK AN EXISTING APP You will be given a choice of 3 popular apps that are currently on the App Store. Choose one and put your own creative unique spin on it. PRIZES:  Cash $$$ prizes awarded to top 3 apps.Top finishers will be given an opportunity to interview for a developer postion at Alpha Labs. We are looking for top engineering talent. You could be a critical member of our small software team, working on our existing and new native iOS apps. This is a unique role that has great leadership and creative freedom.  SCHEDULE OF EVENTS : 9:00AM - Event Kickoff, doors open, Breakfast & Networking9:45AM - Welcome and Introduction of Alpha Labs10:00AM - Hackathon Description & Submission Deadline10:30AM - Let the hacking begin1:00PM - CODE FREEZE. Lunch is served2:00PM - Hacking continued 7:00PM - Judging 8:00PM - Demos 9:00PM - Awards10:00PM - Event ends PREREQUISITES: Good understanding of Xcode & SwiftGeneral or good understanding of Objective-CReact Native (Optional)

LEVEL THE PLAYING FIELD HACKATHON >>>>  FREE EVENT This ALL INCLUSIVE Hackathon organized at HULT International Business School aims to discover news ways of enjoying music through skin hearing. Each team will be self assigned after a pitching session between HULT Students, Engineers and music enthusiasts that identify as Deaf and hard of hearing, or/and Blind, low-vision and none of the above. Through Lego Serious Play activities, workshops in Design Thinking and in basics in Engineering, each team will have one day to create a simple prototype/paper prototype that will be tested at a concert at the end of the event on Saturday night.  >>>>>>>  PLEASE SELECT ONLY ONE TICKET If you want to participate in one of the Workshops + Hackathon, please select the corresponding ticket below. The two workshops will be run simultaneously, you can only attend one! Engineering Workshop + Hackathon ticket Design Thinking Workshop + Hackathon ticket If you only want to/can participate in the Hackathon (and not the workshops), please select the "Hackathon Only Admission" ticket below. Mentors will go through all teams to help and improve ideas. Mentors are: Mike Grandinetti Fernando Albertorio Christopher Robinson Alexander Terekhov Manvitha Ponnapati Venkat Vadim Here a Youtube Video of a previous Hackathon run at HULT and organized by Mike Grandinetti for his company Reduxio. >>>>> CERTIFICATIONS WILL BE PROVIDED TO ALL PARTICIPANTS AGENDA: Friday (2:30pm - 5pm): First round of registration for workshops (2:30pm - 3:30pm) Simultaneous workshops on Design Thinking and Engineering (3:30pm-5:00pm) Hackathon opening session (5:00pm-5:30pm) Lego Serious Play activity (5:30pm-7:30pm) Mixer and snacks (7:30pm-9:30pm) Saturday (9am-9pm): Hacking Jury debate and award ceremony. For any complementary information, please visit our website and/or email dhhhackathon@gmail.com.

Kids and parents in New England! ScratchDayatMIT invites you to participate in Scratch Day @ MIT 2017: Celebrating 10 Years of Scratch. Come and you can learn about Scratch, share your projects, and meet with the Scratch Team. Have fun and learn while using Scratch to program your own interactive stories, games, and animations. Kids under 16 -- you must bring an adult!

Interested in space travel? 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 in the Boston area, you're invited to sign up for the Boston edition. You'll be part of a 48-hour global collaborative hackathon focused on space exploration. In Boston, you can be part of a local team -- or team up with participants from Tokyo, Japan. The theme for Space Apps 2017 is Earth. You can select one of the following challenges: 1.The Earth and Us, 2.Planetary Blues, 3.Warning! Danger Ahead, 4.Our Ecological Neighborhood, and 5.Ideate and Create.

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