List of hackathons in Greenwich, United States in 2016

Dear actors, designers, directors, playwrights, producers, and stage managers: We’re pretty sure there’s been a time when you’ve thought, “There’s gotta be an app for that,” searched on Google Play or iTunes, and found yourself sad and disappointed. We want to make you happy again. Dear app developers and designers: As Alexander Hamilton once sang, “You strike me as a group who’s never been satisfied.” We know you’ve always wished you could work together with theater professionals and fellow developers for, like, two days in a cool exhibition gallery with free food. We want your top notch brains, and we’ll make it happen. On Monday April 18 and Tuesday, the 19th, the Billy Rose Theatre Division and MASIE Productions are hosting the second Broadway Hackathon at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center. Teams will spend Monday morning hearing from theater celebrities about their needs and brainstorming apps aimed at helping theater professionals of all kinds.  Then teams combined with creatives, incubators and developers will have 24 hours, from 1 PM on Monday to 1 PM on Tuesday to develop either a sketched out map or prototype to demonstrate in a public presentation on Tuesday afternoon. The most promising applications will be selected for a longer incubation process leading to full releases. This year, in honor of the 400 years of Shakespeare’s legacy, we are especially interested in applications supporting the production of Shakespearean plays, though this focus should serve as an inspiration rather than a restriction. If you’ve read this far, you’re cool. And cool people should be at this event. So sign up before people less cool than you take all the spots! Sponsors:

The Sports Analytics Hackathon is open to all Columbian university students. The theme of this hackathon is uncovering actionable insights from publicly available NBA datasets. Projects will be using public data in sports field. Visualization or modeling approaches are both relevant, as long as your work uses some of the datasets. Presentations will be judged during an electronic poster session where judges will go around and ask teams to present their projects.

This is a global hackathon organized by Time Inc. NBBJ and PowerToFly to invent the workplace of the future. The challenges for this event include creating technology that allows distributed teams to connect in serindipidous ways, creating a virtual watercooler, building technology that allows culture to flow across locations, making portals across the globe, and crafting new technology that brings remote workers into structured meetings and brainstorming sessions.

This is a hackathon organized by Paige & Paxton bringing one of the best STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) educational experiences that a kid, ages 4 to 7, you can have! Children are exposed to some of the best and brightest minds in STEM to engage in 3-4 problem-solving experiences that feature the characters Paige & Paxton. Experiences are led by STEM and education experts and will range from the basis of scientific inquiry and observation, to engineering design and geometry principles.

GHC/1 started is a one-day conference modeled after ABI's international Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing (GHC). This event aims to bring women technologists from all skill levels together with industry leading companies to connect, learn and advance their careers. Women are succeeding in all professions including the “hot” fields: Fin-Tech, Data Science, and Cyber Security. These women will discuss what they accomplish on a daily basis, the prerequisite skills, and the steps necessary for you to secure a position in the area of your choice. Women technologists are diverse in appearance, age, and employment history. Join us to hear their stories about the past, present, and future of women in the field of computing and learn from their experiences.

Hip-Hop Hacks is a two-day hackathon for high school students to explore technology's role in hip-hop and how the most popular genre in the world inspires technological innovation. Since the beginning, hip-hop has evolved together with technology, from turntables and microphones to mediums like vinyl, compact cassettes, mp3s, and now apps and algorithms. Students will study the elements of hip-hop, participate in code and music workshops, network with other students, and learn from music- and tech-industry veterans.

Some World Games, designed by Farzin Farzin, is an immersive installation as part of Closed Worlds, an exhibition curated by Lydia Kallipoliti that presents 41 historical prototypes of closed resource regeneration systems. Visitors will be guided along a continuous loop by custom designed virtual reality headsets suspended from a kinetic track. Through the installation, you will explore the historical content of the exhibition in a virtual visual and aural field. This will be a day-long hackathon utilizing this interface to invite coders, game designers, architects, artists, filmmakers, and others to collaborate and create new worlds. You will be asked to develop tools for virtual exploration and convert kinetic energy into virtual energy to generate both new agencies within systems of display and new engagements with control objects. Basic digital assets will be provided in advance. Teams are free to create any type of content they wish resulting in a single virtual reality experience that will be uploaded to each headset. At the end of the hackathon, each team will have ten minutes to frame and present its work. At the end of the day there will be a quick Q&A session followed by a wine reception!

Join representatives from NYC Media Lab and Audible to learn more about The Future of Listening Hackathon. Receive feedback on your application, network with potential team members and recruiters, and get more information on the newly released Audible API. The Future of Listening Hackathon will explore the world of audio storytelling using the all-new Audible API. Developers and designers are invited to re-imagine the future of listening and innovation in audio media experiences.

This hackathon is a Pediatric Appathon to improve child's care. Teams will develop working Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) enabled applications, technologies and games that will improve the care and experience for pediatric patients and providers.  There is a prize pool $10,000!

Code Liberation invites is inviting all women who have an interest in making games, websites, apps, and/or interactive physical objects for the Women's History Month hackathon. Take inspiration and learn from some pretty boss ladies, especially in STEM such as Ada Lovelace, Grace Hopper, Mae Jemison, the ENIAC ladies, Donna Haraway just to name a few. We would like to expand on our usual game jam event to focus on a variety of different kinds of artistic endeavors, games, solutions and prototypes that come out of this two week (across two weekends) hackathon. Pick a problem to tackle, a project to explore, or a theme to be creative with. Participants will have the opportunity to hear from and talk to Intel Game Designers and Engineers and there will also be programming workshops, design, paper prototyping, and snacks!