List of hackathons in Cambridge, United States in 2017

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.

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.

Hackers in and around Cambridge, MA! If you're interested in space medicine, The Quantly Group invites you to sign up to participate in the Astropreneurship, Space Medicine, and the Dataverse Hackathon 2017. You'll be challenged to address practical issues that arise from translational medical developments, approaches that solve medically related issues for space and Earth.

AR/VR developers! AngelHack invites you to sign up to participate in the Virtual2Reality Challenge. You'll be challenged to create next-generation AR and VR consumer experiences. Come as a team and collaborate to conceptualize and design your VR/AR solution to a problem or challenge in commerce or payments.

The Sloan Women in Management student-run club at MIT's Sloan School invite you to participate in a team at the 2017 Breaking the Mold Hackathon. The purpose of this event is to utilize the innovation and creativity of MIT's community to create solutions that address unconscious bias. You'll be challenged to create solutions that help people become aware of these biases and help manage them to boost organizational diversity.

Students and Fintech professionals! The MIT Sloan FinTech Club invites you to sign up for the MIT Fintech Hackathon. You'll get to participate in an interdisciplinary team and face various financial technology challenges — including some posed by event sponsors TD Bank: »Help TD Bank reform how they deliver information to their customers! »Help TD Bank create a real-time platform to transform the way employees interact with customers! Participating teams will present their solutions to a panel of expert judges and compete for a substantial prize pool.

Data hackers in the greater Boston area! MIT invites you to sign up to participate in the DataRescue @ MIT hackathon. You'll be challenged to identify, download, process, and mirror federal research data that is at risk of being taken down or obscured by the current administration. Your level of technical background does not matter . Everyone's welcome to help with tasks including browsing websites to identify data sets, building scripts to scrape data, verifying data integrity, and loading the rescued data to mirrors.

Health Innovators invites you to participate in HI HACK, a meetup where you'll collaborate to code innovative healthcare solutions. The goal of HI HACK is to uncover opportunities for digital health start-ups. You don't have to be an expert coder, or even know how to code at all!