List of hackathons in Framingham, United States in 2017

CONFIRMED LOCATION: June 15th: Boston Offices, Exchange Place, 53 State Street, Boston, MA 02109. Room name: Tower BR 53 State. 5th Floor. June 16th: Boston Offices, One Boston Place, 201 Washington Street. Room name: Interior BR One Boston Place. 26th Floor.  NOTE: Due to the room availability, Friday session will be hosted in a different building, but the buildings are close to each other. The venue is very close to the Financial District.  NOTE: Photo ID is required at the door. You will show your ID to lobby security and will be directed to the correct elevator bank. You can ask for Boston Offices or the corresponding floor when you check in. Once you’re on the floor, the staff will be there to greet you and show you to the room.  DESCRIPTION Hyperledger Fabric is the leading open source software platform for permissioned enterprise blockchains. Learn how to use the latest version (1.0) of Hyperledger Fabric codebase in a real blockchain network environment where you can play with smart contract deployments.  Is your team planning to build blockchain applications for your industry use case or project? Do you want to become fully skilled for building commercial-grade blockchain applications on Hyperledger Fabric 1.0 and deploying private blockchain networks? Then this advanced course is what you need! Objectives: Learn concepts and use cases of permissioned blockchains. Learn architecture of Fabric 1.0, setup network, run smart contracts. Learn to write smart contracts and deploy them in a complete blockchain application. Benefits to you: Solid hands-on technical skills developing and deploying blockchain applications with Hyperledger Fabric. Interactive experience with expert trainers who have built working blockchain apps, an opportunity to ask questions and get real-life examples. Who should attend? Developers who have understanding of blockchains want to know how to design and write their own blockchain applications on top of Hyperledger Fabric V1.0. If you experimented with smart contracts, or worked with Ethereum, other blockchains, and want to dive into Fabric 1.0 - this is the right course for you. Prerequisites: Working knowledge of Java Basic understanding of PKI and docker Development environment with JDK 1.8 and Gradle ssh access to AWS EC2,  IBM Bluemix or local Ubuntu Your laptop with pre-installed JDK, Gradle or Go, and Docker Compose Training Program June 14th - Introduction. Fabric 1.0 Workshop NOTE: Please check out this introductory course here: Technical Introduction to Hyperledger Fabric 1.0 - Essentials June 15th - Fabric 1.0 Workshop This intensive training is designed for engineers who know the basics of blockchain and want to learn the key components of Hyperledger Fabric, study in detail the transactions workflow and spend a sizable amount of time on experiments with blockchain. The training helps developers acquire solid technical skills in building blockchain applications on Hyperledger Fabric v1.0. The students will learn how to develop working blockchain apps with Hyperledger Fabric SDK, how to deploy local blockchain networks, as well as understand the confidentiality basics in Hyperledger Fabric. Agenda:  Write your own smart contract in Java Custom Events Endorsement policies Overview of SDKs for Node and Java Overview of Fabric Composer June 16th - Hackathon This advanced technical course is designed for experienced developers who have understanding of blockchain and Hyperledger Fabric.  Students will leave with the ability to develop full-featured blockchain applications, write not only a smart contract in Java, but also the client code and full interface of the application. Learn from an experienced trainer who has delivered working blockchain solutions. Agenda: Identify a use case for a blockchain application Design identities, entities, transactions Design network, consortium Use Node SDK to create application API Create secure web front end Trainer: Oleg Abdrashitov, Blockchain Practice Lead / Trainer Oleg Abdrashitov heads the Blockchain Practice at Altoros and the Requirements Working Group at Hyperledger. Oleg's career spans 19 years in software development for the financial services companies. He has built systems supporting high frequency trading, middle office and online exchanges. Oleg has worked at top investment banks, hedge funds and has founded startups and consultancies. He is currently engaged by clients in finance and insurance to train engineers and architects on blockchain. Together with team Altoros, Oleg won the blockchain hackathon at Consensus 2016 with Decentralized Energy Utility Project, and delivered two working prototypes for the financial industry - Distributed Clearing Platform For Derivatives, and Bond Issuance and Trading. Payment Info: If you would like to get an invoice for your company to pay for this training, please email to training@altoros.com and provide us with the following info: - Name of your Company/Division which you would like to be invoiced;- Name of the person the invoice should be addressed to;- Mailing address;- Purchase order # to put on the invoice (if required by your company). Please email us at training@altoros.com if you would like to: get training for your team (5+ people) and get team discount; get private training in your company - we can customize the program for your needs, and schedule for the dates that work for you. About Altoros: Altoros is a digital transformation consultancy that has built a reputation in blockchain space. We are an active member of Hyperledger project, contributing expertise of our engineers. We have built a number of blockchain application prototypes for insurance and financial services clients and conducted a technical training on Hyperledger Fabric 0.6 for a large financial services corporation, as well as a number of blockchain workshops for executives in (Re)Insurance, Lending & Securitization field.

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.