List of hackathons in Costa Mesa, United States in 2016

Female high school and college students! Come and collaborate in a team to design a website, game, or mobile app that addresses one of the following real-world challenges: »Challenge 1: Connecting Girls to Success. Create a platform where Girl Force USA members can connect to other members, mentors, and potential employers. »Challenge 2: Creative Repurposing to Reduce Waste: Build a web app or mobile game to engage youth encouraging them to creatively repurpose used items into useful resources.

Have an app idea or need an app built for your business? Whether you are a backend person, designer, entrepreneur, student, or just interested in tech, you are invited to attend this special IoT-focused Mobile App Hackathon. Come and hack and build apps/mobile apps, and compete for prizes across different categories. Experts from AT&T and the local technical community will be onsite to assist with your development. Just bring your laptop, skills & ideas. Come with a collaborative, team-focused mindset and/or team-up in advance using the #atthack hashtag on Twitter/Facebook/Google+.

Welcome to the first ever Botathon 1.0!  Bots have become the latest paradigm for content distribution and e-commerce on messaging platforms. Some say that bots are the new apps. The purpose of this two day Botathon , a hackathon for building bots, is to educate, inspire collaboration and team building,  and to develop innovative use cases within a conversational interface.  We are very grateful to have partnered with LA’s BEST to help us organize this event at the Impact Hub located in the Arts District of Downtown LA.  Saturday Oct 8th: (9am-6pm)  9:00-10:00 — Coffee + Snacks  10:00-10:10 — Opening Remarks By Todd Terrazas  10:10-10:40 — Keynote by Dr. Julie Albright  10:45-11:15 — Surprise Speaker  11:20-12:00 — Microsoft Workshop  12:00-1:00 — Lunch   1:00-1:30 — Pitch Ideas   1:30-2:30 — Form teams   2:30-6:00 — Work on projects, mentors will be available Sunday Oct 9th: (12pm-6pm) 12:00-2:00 — Lunch  2:00 — Project Submissions  3:00 — Team Presentations  5:00 — Judging + Prizes PRIZES Oculus Rift DJI Phantom Quadcopter 4 BLE Speakers Visa Gift Cards Free Consultation from Norwest Venture Partners Free Consultation from Amplify.la Thank you to our Sponsors + Community Partners: Microsoft, Kik, Sensay, Brainitch, Commerce.io, O'Reilly Media, Slack, Twilio, Norwest Venture Partners, Amplify.LA, Fritzi, Arts District Brewery  

Interested in solving unmet clinical needs? Then UCLA Business of Science Center's Inventathon is where you need to be! Bring your creativity and technical smarts to create and present the best solution to a given medical need. You can build an app, a device, a website, or anything else that exemplifies the concept. You'll be able to call on clinicians, academics, and technical mentors for assistance in areas such as device design, reimbursement, strategy, software development, and presentation.

Sign up for Hack4Equality, a 7-week hackathon bringing together brilliant minds to craft technology-based solutions to critical issues affecting the global LGBTQ community in the following four challenge sets: »Transgender Visibility and Economic Empowerment »LGBTQ Homelessness »Access to Sexual Health Services and PrEP »International LGBTQ Issues

Passionate about the health of the people of America? Want to help address issues such as lack of good nutrition, limited access to pre-natal care and childhood poverty? Come and participate in Hacks for Health. Collaborate and apply your software skills to create solutions to a particular issue in health and nutrition. The Hacks for Health topics this year are Poverty and Hunger, Food Deserts, and Maternal/Infant Health.

The Valley Economic Alliance is hosting Valley Hackathon II, as part of its mission to elevate the economic vitality and stability of the five-city region (Calabasas, Burbank, Glendale, Los Angeles and San Fernando). This event's for you if you're a high school (9-12th grade) or college student interested in: →Technology →Website Development/Design →Application Development/Design →Political Science →Government →Public Policy →Social Impact →Marketing

Looking to launch your own media startup? Come attend POV Digital Lab Ice Cream Social for screenings of past POV projects, adventures in hackathon from POV Lab alumni & ice cream! This is a weekend media incubator with a track record of launching funded, highly viewed, and Webby- and Emmy-award nominated media. Over two days, teams work with experts and mentors to build media prototypes merging storytelling and technology.

Are you a developer? An Artist? A VR tech enthusiast? Are you interested in collaborating on scary VR experiences and working with the artists at Titmouse Studios? Join Monster VR and Titmouse Studios for a twisted Halloween-themed hackathon in Los Angeles! So. Cal VR has orchestrated hackathons in the past, but this will be the most TERRIFYING yet!

Virtual Reality has risen to the top of the tech scene as everyone begins to see the first mainstream prototypes and uses come to market. If you have an interest in VR or are currently working in this innovative field, then gain some more experience and compete for great prizes at the We Are Code VR Hackathon! The event will be sponsored by Oculus with the chance to win cash, gadgets, free coding classes and more!