List of hackathons in Greenville, United States in 2016

Concerned citizens of Massachusetts! Join the New England Center for Investigative Reporting and WGBH for the Bay State Ballot Question Hackathon. This is a hands-on event where journalists, concerned citizens and experts sift through campaign finance data to better understand the funding sources behind voter initiatives appearing on the Massachusetts ballot this fall.

The MIT App Inventor Summit 2016 is annually organized by the MIT Center for Mobile Learning and the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). The event will include workshops, DIY, and hackathons for learning new skills and creating apps. The Summit will be organized into tracks. Two tracks identified thus far are Education and Health/Medicine. A diverse range of individuals, including: research scientists; educators from formal and informal settings; NGO staff members; computer scientists; representatives from industry; entrepreneurs; and others are all welcome to attend this exciting 3 days. Get the opportunity to share current work, form new collaborations, and stay abreast of the latest developments within the MIT App Inventor community. The theme of this Summit is MAKE!

Hey Boston tech community! Want to help find ways to aid in the struggle against Alzheimer's disease? Attend the 2nd annual #EndAlz Hackathon to create software for the benefit of caregivers, researchers, and people living with Alzheimer's disease. If you're a designer, developer, marketer, entrepreneur, dreamer, or just someone with a good idea--come along.

ProtoHack wants to provide non-coders with the tools, knowledge and connections to bring their idea to life through the creation of a real prototype. No coding will be required. No coding is required. Instead you will use prototyping tools, drag and drop editors, mockups, wireframes and anything else you can think of to visually demo your idea on stage to a panel of judges to get feedback.

This is the first Content Marketing Hackathon organized by Boston Content to work on marketing skills for early stage startups in need of marketing strategies. An opportunity to work with a completely new team of people, learn brainstorming strategy and get inspired by new ideas while you help a young company succeed with their marketing efforts. The hackathon will kick off with a startup from WeWork presenting their marketing strategies. Next, you will brainstorm to identify the top 3 marketing initiatives that the startup should pursue. Then, you'll break up into 3 groups where you'll spend an hour coming up with ideas for how to tackle one of these initiatives and present their recommendations to the rest of the group. There will be networking before and after the session and drinks and snacks will be provided by General Assembly.

Hey coders! Join the AT&T Developer Program for a free coding workshop on the AT&T Enhanced WebRTC API.  These are 3-hour, hands-on coding workshops taught by AT&T's lead architect for WebRTC. WebRTC is not just about calling and conferencing apps, though it does those well. The real power is that it allows voice and video communications to easily be added to any web app. Just think of how that could increase the customer engagement of your applications.

Engineers, designers, developers and data scientists in the Boston area! Join McKinsey Analytics and your peers for a day and half hacking event. Come and demonstrate your skills in one of three areas: (1) Stack Overflow, (2) Apache Milagro internet security framework, or (3) Internet of Things (IoT).

This is AngelHack’s 9th Global Hackathon Series. The Challenge is Simple. AngelHack’s nonprofit arm, Code For A Cause, is challenging superhero coders to build a technology that will have a positive impact on the world, people, or environment. No matter your age or skill level, just come and create projects that are innovative, and have the potential to improve or influence people’s lives. Build a hack that people can use, enjoy, and potentially scale and get the chance to fly to Silicon Valley for the Annual Global Demo Day and participate in a week of extensive pitch training!

This hackathon is organized by Harvard and Blue Umbrella with the aim to meaningfully improve the lives of people with autism. Students and community members are invited to join for a day of brainstorming, ideating, and prototyping. Participants will form teams, and then present final pitches to a judging panel, highlighting innovative solutions to address the challenges surrounding autism. Attendees will be asked to develop products and/or business concepts or come with existing ideas to help or feedback on. This could include designing a solution to address language and communication disorders, outlining a new concept for adaptive play, pitching a solution around employment services, or designing a plan for a new residential community. There will be end-users on hand to help participants better understand these challenges. You do not need to bring any additional materials, but may bring a laptop or other supplies that you may find helpful. Participantscan be from any kind of background including healthcare, business, education, tech, design, and more. No technical experience or prior knowledge on autism is required for this hackathon.

The MIT/law Legal Hackathon is an open participatory event providing an open forum to build, design, and explore projects. Your goal will be to solve legal and technical issues and other challenges as law and business become fully digital. Software developers, business people, academics, government employees, advocates and others are all invited to join sessions to collaborate on 'hacking the law' by developing computer and legal projects. The projects include OpenNotice revolutionizing the Legal Notice protocols, "Bank-in-a-box" a toolkit for starting your own Credit Union from scratch, and many other themes, topics and projects. So bring your laptop, your ideas, and your enthusiasm!