List of hackathons in Highland Park, United States in 2017

Entrepreneurs in and around the Windy City! Are you planning to participate in the Civic Tech Challenge Hackathon in early November? Are you interested in learning how to construct a solid design approach? If so, then Colony 5 invites you to attend the workshop -- Your App-Enabled Business & the Colony 5 Civic Tech Challenge. This event will help you build upon your initial idea and help you understand tools and opportunities that are available for you to use in introducing technologies such as Internet of Things, Wearables, Driverless cars, etc. into your business concept.

Techies and non-techies in and around Chicago! Interested in the application of technology for the civic good? Come and participate in Chi Hack Night! You'll collaborate to build, share and learn about civic tech and conceive and build tools that will help serve the good of the people of Chicago. You don't have to be a techie to participate and contribute. You'll be able to network and team with some of Chicago's smartest techies, bringing a diversity of background to your team project.

Christian technologists and entrepreneurs in Chicagoland! Whether you are a tech enthusiast or work in tech as a designer, developer, data analyst, product manager, digital marketer, or entrepreneur, you're invited to participate in the 2017 Chicago Code for the Kingdom Hackathon. This hackathon is part of a global series happening in 20 cities around the world. You'll get to grapple with challenges that focus on helping some specific marginalized groups in the local community and/or helping with other Chicago-related needs. Get practical info on hackathon participation at the expert tips page!

Hack & Tell is a hackathon that is actually a hackathon. There is no need for business models, customer validation, or extravagant pitches. The purpose of this hackathon is to hang out and team up with other developers and designers for the sake of making something. There will be time at the end of the event where you are free to show and tell everyone about the awesome thing that you built. You can build something for yourself or build something for other people. You can build something useful or build something not useful at all. The choice is all yours. All we want is for you to take this time and build something you've always wanted to build. You didn't even need to have any ideas of your own. There will be plenty of developers and ideas floating around that you can hack with. So are you going to come make cool things with us? Join other developers and designers for 8 hours of fun on Saturday, April 8th starting at 9am. For more info, go to http://www.rokkincat.com/hack-n-tell

Please join us at ADVANCED FinTech's new Blockchain location. Teaming with Illinois Institute of Technology.  This session will be held at the IIT location -- 565 W. Adams, 7th Floor. Our sponsor for this event is BizofIT.com Hosted by Zach SmolinskiGuests include: Melvin Petties is a Digital Strategist from Protiviti and local Blockchain Evangelist. His experiences with blockchain include mining, research, and smart contract development. He is fresh back from a 6-day adventure to #Consensus2017 in NYC where he competed in his first major blockchain hackathon and attended conference keynotes, sessions and networking events. He's here today to answer questions about the state of product advancement and share stories from his time there. Bill Ulivieri is owner of Cenacle Capital Management, LLC ( www.cenaclecapital.com) a state-registered investment advisory firm implementing bitcoin and alt-currency education, to help craft a well-diversified investment portfolio. Bill is also CEO of Mining Rig Solutions, LLC. ( www.miningrigsolutions.com) The firm seeks to capitalize on the potential return on investment from small scale, commercial mining farm operations. His experience with blockchain is mining Ethereum, Ethereum Classic, ZCASH and other cryptocurrencies. He recently launched Mining Rig Solutions, LLC which offers an elegant, “turn-key” solution for family office and hedge funds in the alt-currency space. Bill has given his presentation “Why Bitcoin & Blockchain Will Disrupt…Everything” to a diverse group of highly respected financial organizations.

Learn how your library can leverage its role as a trusted community partner to bring technologists and community members together to tackle local problems. We've assembled a panel leaders in the civic technology movement in Chicago including Christopher Whitacker, Claire Micklin, and Josh Kalov to give you the tools you need to understand civic tech, open data, and how to host a civic hackathon. Registration includes lunch. Schedule 9:00: Welcome / Breakfast / Civic Tech 101 (Christopher Whitaker)  9:30: Deep Dive into user experience (Claire Micklin)  10:30: Deep Dive into Open Data (Josh Kalov)  11:30: How to run a civic hackathon  12:00: Brainstorming Lunch

Due to factors beyond our control, which would impact the overall event quality, we regret to announce that the hackathon event Hack on State scheduled for June 3, 2017 at Jones College Prep has been postponed until further notice. Our goal remains the same: help students address real issues through technology. In the coming months we will be developing Hack on State into a more robust event with more opportunities to learn programming. -Hack on State organizers

Learn to code every Thursday in June! Interactive learning! We are proud to present a coding academy for those who are considering a career transition or for those who would like to take their first steps into the very important career of computer programming. Our instructor will help you get on the right path to learning how to use a programming language to create content on your computer, mobile phone, or tablet. At the end of the course you will have a very comfortable understanding of what object oriented programming (OOP) is and how to work with it in order to effectively create and learn more intermediate and expert level programs. *Please bring your own laptop. The programming language to install is Python (www.python.org). **This course is for High School and up. Those who would like to have their children participate must also participate as well.  ***One fee covers the entire month Course guide: Week 1 - Introduction to OOP languages, uses, and development industry. Jump into building blocks of programming. Week 2 - Continue building blocks of code. Excercise: Developing small program using what we have learned, thus far. Week 3 - Small program presentations: Rubric - design, use of language (variety & innovations), user interface. Gathering of teams. Week 4 -  Tech/industry speaker. Working with team to design and begin building your team program. I will facilitate. Week 5 - Mini Hackathon! Hour 1: finish programming and design with teams. Hour 2: Present and be judged by peers.

           ProPublica is holding its first ever hackathon! With support from Yelp and MATTER, the Vital Signs Hackathon invites health care entrepreneurs, technologists and others to join us in creating solutions for helping patients receive better, more affordable health care. You can join us either an individual or as a team. Apply here to receive a registration code. Over two days, participants will work together in small teams to explore, identify and prototype tools to help patients access the best possible care. Join us to take on real-world challenges, learn creative new techniques and win prizes!  DAY 1 will begin with a statement of the challenge, followed by talks from professionals working in consumer-focused health care settings to inspire and challenge participants, brief pitches from participants and teams, and work time. DAY 2 will culminate with a pitch session, judged by a panel of experts in both health care and technology. Winners will receive cash and non-cash prizes. Throughout the two-day event, participants will be provided with meals, snacks, coffee, and access to professional mentors.    Awards Two teams will receive the following prizes: 1. Grand Prize Winner: $1,000 and three 3-month memberships to MATTER, the health care startup incubator 2. Yelp Prize Winner: $1,000 for the best use of the Yelp Fusion API data   Tools To prototype their health care hacks, participants will be equipped with three main tools: ProPublica Vital Signs API, which harnesses quantitative and qualitative data from our top health investigations, with a focus on key metrics of quality and cost of care, as well as comparative metrics that flag doctors with unusual practice patterns. BetterDoctor API, which provides comprehensive information about doctors -- including contact information, health plan coverage, and more -- straight from the source and in real time. Yelp Fusion API, which gives developers access to detailed profile information from providers’ pages on Yelp.   Speakers & Mentors This list will be regularly updated as additional speakers are confirmed. Leland Brewster is the investment fund manager at Healthbox. He supports the Intermountain Innovation Fund, a $35M healthcare IT fund managed by Healthbox, and heads Healthbox's seed investments in addition to supporting portfolio management efforts across all of its investment vehicles. Prior to joining Healthbox, Leland worked for Clarion Healthcare, a boutique life sciences consultancy in Boston. At Clarion, he was involved in multiple product commercialization and launch readiness projects, as well as the design and launch of a one-of-a-kind patient and physician support program.     Arun Bhatia is the programs director at MATTER. He has a deep passion for the design and strategic growth of new healthcare and life-science ventures. He has held multi-faceted roles related to early-stage venture development, including innovation strategy design, leading the intra-preneurship program at Baxter Healthcare, corporate venture evaluation and investing through Baxter Ventures, and university-stage start-up development and investment at IllinoisVENTURES. Arun’s passion for healthcare innovation was fostered through an MBA in entrepreneurship from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business as well as an MS in biotechnology from the Illinois Institute of Technology.     Sisi Wei is the deputy news applications editor at ProPublica, where she helps manage the news apps team, and edits and builds interactive stories that serve the public interest. Her work has ranged from investigating which U.S. colleges saddle students with debt to monitoring how often China blocks international news outlets. She has served as an adjunct professor at New York University, The New School and CUNY, and she is also the co-founder of Code with me a nonprofit workshop that teaches journalists how to code.     Marshall Allen is a reporter covering patient safety for ProPublica. He is one of the creators of ProPublica’s Surgeon Scorecard, which published the complication rates for about 17,000 surgeons who perform eight common elective procedures. He also moderates the ProPublica Patient Safety Facebook group. Allen’s work has been honored with several journalism awards, including the Harvard Kennedy School’s 2011 Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting and coming in as a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for local reporting for work at the Las Vegas Sun, where he worked before coming to ProPublica in 2011.    Charles Ornstein is a senior reporter for ProPublica covering health care and the pharmaceutical industry. In collaboration with Tracy Weber, Ornstein was a lead reporter on a series of articles in the Los Angeles Times titled "The Troubles at King/Drew" hospital that won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service, the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award and the Sigma Delta Chi Award for public service in 2005. His ProPublica series, with Tracy Weber, "When Caregivers Harm: California's Unwatched Nurses," was a finalist for a 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. Ornstein reported for the Times starting in 2001, in the last five years largely in partnership with Weber. Earlier, Ornstein spent five years as a reporter for the Dallas Morning News. He is a past president of the Association of Health Care Journalists and a former Kaiser Family Foundation media fellow.     Judges This list will be regularly updated as additional judges are confirmed. Pauliina Alanen is the platform manager at BetterDoctor, where she takes care of the BetterDoctor developer community and marketing activities around the API. She started her career at a SailfishOS startup Jolla and got swallowed into the world of tech. After that she did PR and marketing for ICT companies before moving to San Francisco. Pauliina’s social science background helps her understand abstract and intuitive user experiences but she finds her way through the code.     Chuck Feerick is the innovation consulting manager at Healthbox. He supports Healthbox's innovation consulting engagements, working with industry partners across the country. He also hosts Innovation Rising, a podcast presented by Healthbox. Chuck's professional experience has included working in managed care, as well as in strategic healthcare consulting. Areas of focus have included internal wellness programs, health information technology, member/patient relations, government relations, and the development of Accountable Care Organizations (ACO) and Patient- Centered Medical Home models.     Quy Le is the partnerships product manager at Yelp. He owns the Yelp Fusion API and leads the integration of health care data on Yelp, including adding restaurant inspection scores and medical data onto Yelp's business pages. He also works closely with Yelp's business development team to help Yelp grow consumer engagement and monetization via strategic partnerships. Prior to joining Yelp, Quy has worked at various technology companies including Yahoo, Cisco, and AOL.       Registration Registration costs $15 for individuals and $45 for teams (of up to five members). To participate, you must apply here.   Code of Conduct Read our Code of Conduct here.   Agenda Agenda may be subject to change. Final agenda will be shared with participants by email in advance of the event. Saturday, May 13 9 am: Welcome & Coffee 9:30-10 am: Kickoff Speakers  10-10:30 am: Idea Pitches  10:30-12:30 pm: Team formation & kickoff 12:30-1 pm: Lunch & Speaker 2-6 pm: Team Work Time 6 pm: Dinner Work time open until space closesSunday, May 14 9 am: Coffee and Welcome 12 pm: Hackathon Ends 12:30 pm: Judging Begins 2:30 pm: Awards & Closing Comments

Digital designers, coders, engineers, aspiring water experts, entrepreneurs — anyone who is passionate about protecting the Great Lakes! You're invited to sign up to attend the Chicago AquaHacking Kick-off Event. Come and brainstorm innovative, practical solutions to the challenges of keeping Lake Erie’s water clean and clear. This will be the kick-off meeting for Chicago’s AquaHacking teams, which will come up with solutions to pitch in late May to compete in semi-finals in June.