List of hackathons in Edison, United States in 2018

The Open-City Mobility Futures challenge will bring together diverse voices from the mobility ecosystem to provide attendees with a full understanding of the impacts of the work planned during the Canarsie Tunnel Repairs. The challenge will explore the impacts the repairs will cause to the city and its residents. To help participants tangibly explore challenges and potential solutions, we will draw on open data sets, for example on vehicle circulation around North Brooklyn affected area (Waze) combined with public transport (MTA) usage to identify potential alternative routes that can inform product and service innovation and influence city planning for better decision making. The data sets will be from relevant local agencies including the Departments of Transport, the Metropolitan Transit Authority, the Taxi and Limousine Commission and also associate data sets from Health and City Planning. Additionally, we will incorporate open data sets from private organizations like Waze and Strava. Data sets will be set into context by presentations from experts on planned work and interrelated consequences caused by the L train disruption which is estimated to affect over 250,000 people daily. According to a recent study, there are five key determinants that will be particularly affected by the L-train shutdown: Environmental Stressors: Air Quality, Noise, and Overcrowding Mobility: Walkability, Wayfinding, Transportation Hazards, and Disability Access Health Related Behaviors: Physical Activity, Diet and Sleep Employment and Livelihood: Job Accessibility and Security, and Occupational Stress Family and Community Structure: Family Dynamics, Civic Engagement, and Leisure Forum for the Future (Forum) has already captured the interest of multiple organizations that are collaborators in this work, laying the groundwork for effectively achieving the below objectives. Among these partner organizations are: The New York City Department of Transportation, whose Deputy Commissioner Michael Replogle will be a keynote speaker Grand Central Tech Hub will host the event, Collectively, a user experience design partner, and a number of other organizations that would be able to provide valuable datasets and expertise including Waze, NYC Taxi & Limousine Commission, Department of City Planning, and the NYU Rudin Center for Transportation Policy & Management. Forum will use the learnings from our work at the Mobility Scale Lab – a collaborative work that developed recommendations for transit agencies interested in actively working with the community and the open data ecosystem on social and environmental issues - to guide delivery and design for Open-City Mobility Futures. At Forum we know that emergent technology has a role to play in a sustainable future and in catalyzing transformational change for positive impact in society, environment and the economy. Open Data is a vehicle to discover new insights in a distributed and equitable way, and can act as an enabler to drive change and more sustainable outcomes in the urban mobility landscape and beyond. The L train challenge represents an ideal scenario to practically test learnings and refine our approach to use open data for environmental, social and economic benefits that are mindful of future changes. OBJECTIVES to develop tangible examples of how technology -Open Data- can be an enabler of long-term sustainable mobility and codify this process to test the recommendations in the research project Mobility Scale Lab with practitioners to strengthen relationships with key stakeholders and leading specialists in NYC to show leadership on urban technology and innovation for sustainable mobility The day will be divided into three main stages: "Be Aware", "Be Inspired" and "Be Disruptive". "Be Aware" This is a reality check about NYC mobility's social, economic and environmental challenges associated to the L train disruption. The objective of this stage is to build awareness about priority issues and increase attendees' understanding of the interconnectedness between mobility and other urban needs. "Be Inspired" We will offer open data case studies and signals of change that are shaping mobility today and review major future trends associated with mobility. This stage will stimulate lateral thinking, prepare attendees for idea generation and encourage them to think beyond the present paradigm. "Be Disruptive" In teams of 5-6, participants will select a challenge, review relevant data sets, start to ideate, select ideas and build a rapid prototype for their pitch at the end of the day. The projects could be anything from a data visualization, an app, a 3D object, or a website. Throughout the day, we will have experts mentoring and judging the final ideas. To close the event, we will share next steps and initial thoughts on how to move these ideas forward together. We envision publishing the conceptual ideas on Forum for the Future's Futures Centre, a global platform for sustainable solutions, and the Open Data Week NYC website. Forum will lead facilitation and provide a set of tools including a strategic design canvas, personas, future trends, and sustainable mobility frameworks across the event to make the ideation process easier. The final participant count will depend on venue, resources, and partners. We plan on having at least 50 attendees from diverse backgrounds including designers, programmers, engineers, data scientists, marketers, commuters, students, and experts in mobility and sustainability. If you would like to learn more about this and partner with us please contact Rodrigo Bautista at r.bautista@forumforthefuture.org

C4Q is hosting its annual Access Code Hackathon on March 3 - 5, 2018. 140 Access Code developers will be building awesome projects in small teams around the theme of "Access" to tackle NYC's biggest challenges using open APIs. Please join us on Monday, March 5th as our fellows present their hackathon projects in front of a panel of distinguished judges. Winners will be chosen based on their overall presentation, design, and community problem tackled.  4 - 6 pm: Fullstack Web Presentations  7 - 9 pm: Mobile Presentations  If you are interested in volunteering as a technical, design, or presentation mentor, please sign up here: http://bit.ly/2018C4QHackathon C4Q Access Code Hackathon Presentations 2018 is proudly sponsored by: Flatiron Health Robin Hood Blue Ridge Labs About C4Q  C4Q is a nonprofit that aims to increases economic opportunity through technology. Their 10-month Access Code program trains adults from low-income and diverse backgrounds to become software engineers. Graduates have been hired at leading companies such as Kickstarter, Pinterest, and LinkedIn, with average annual salaries raising from $18,000 to $85,000. C4Q works with leading business and philanthropic organizations such as Robin Hood Foundation, Google, BlackRock, and Salesforce.org to build an innovative, inclusive, and diverse tech community in New York.

LabCo NYC is an early stage startup incubator. We believe that amazing products can be built when creative minds collaborate. We are looking for top blockchain developer talent to join us for a day of hacking! You must register for this event on EventBrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/labcos-cryptoday-hackathon-tickets-42503678647

LabCo NYC is an early stage startup incubator. We provide a platform for launching great ideas. Our services include seed funding, training/mentoring, and post-launch support. Our portfolio companies provide infrastructure for the cryptocurrency ecosystem and this will be a hackathon dedicated to distributed systems that use blockchain technology.  We believe that amazing products can be built when creative minds collaborate. We are looking for top blockchain developer talent to join us for a day of hacking. Come build projects using cutting edge financial technology, meet industry veterans and develop products for this emerging asset class! Requirements: 18+ years old, must bring own computer. 

Citizens of New York State! Are you interested in a grassroots effort to re-empower ordinary citizens by bringing to light information about the county committee system in the state? Then come and participate in the County Committee Sunlight Project Hackathon. In this non-partisan "workathon", you'll be challenged help create a database of county committee membership for the five boroughs of New York City.

IT'S BACK!!! IN CASE YOU MISSED IT!!! Hey Middle Schoolers! Do you like playing Minecraft? Do you feel like you're the top gamer out of all your friends? Then sign up for the Minecraft Hackathon and show us your skills! Have fun and earn bragging rights! They'll be FOOD & PRIZES! Join us on Saturday, the 24th at the 3 Black Cats Cafe.  Spots fill up super fast so reserve your ticket today! See you there, till then GAME ON! -NOTE: RSVP by clicking the "Register" button and selecting the number of tickets needed. ONE ticket per student. Parents you do not need to submit a ticket for yourself, you will be registering a ticket on behalf of your child/ren.-

Life science techies who are interested in genetic data! You're invited to participate in the Hack the Genome - Times Square NYC 2018 hackathon. You'll be challenged to use the Real-Time Personalization® (+RTP) API to add gene-based personalization to your app. Bring an existing app or develop one from scratch at the event -- in either case, you'll provide personalized, real-time insights and guidance to your app user.

This exciting two-day competition will focus on developing health and wellness apps that provide a unique, personalized user experience. There is no need to know anything about genomics as the +RTP API makes genetic-based information incredibly easy to work with and understand. All you need to know is how to create web or mobile apps. You can compete with an existing app or you can create a new app.

University students and faculty in the New York City area! You're invited to participate in the 7th Annual NYU Entrepreneurs Festival. In addition to keynotes, panels, roundtables and NYU Startup Exhibitions, you'll get the opportunity to participate in a hackathon and a pitch competition. Undergraduates, postgraduates, faculty -- NYU, or not -- you're all welcome to attend and participate.

Looking to practice your UX skills, learn, meet people and help an EdTech startup improve education? Welcome to UX Mini Hackathon Series. What is the UX Mini Hackathon? Our UX mini hackathons are short one-evening events featuring real organizations that provide problems that can be addressed with design and technology. Attendees collaborate in teams, brainstorm and prototype their solutions and then present back to the organizations. Teams are provided with feedback from clients and mentors and can win in various categories (and get prizes, if available). Who should attend? Those who want to improve their UX/prototyping skills by helping a real organization: UX and UI designers, product designers, researchers, product people, developers, aspiring UX professionals and other tech people who want to meet new people, learn and advance their UX skills in a team environment. What will the format be like? - Organizations are invited and requested to provide a problem that they would like help with where design and technology can help (design brief will be shared with attendees a bit in advance) - During the 3 hour UX hackathon, the teams will be able to put together a basic idea and prototype their solution - Teams will have the opportunity to present their solution to the client(s) and UX mentors and get feedback - The winning team and others interested might continue working on the project if they and the organization are interested Important - what you will need: - Laptops will be quite useful ;) - You will need to be able to use design / prototyping tools (any tools of your choice will work: i.e. Sketch, Adobe Suite (design), InVision, Marvel or Principle for Mac, Pixate, Axure, or at least POP, Balsamiq or Keynote)