List of hackathons in Jersey City, United States in 2016

The FinTech Awards Hack is inviting developers, business minds and creatives to connect with FinTech’s top executives, press, VCs, academics and more while hacking a solutions for a better tomorrow. The main challenge will be to seeks solutions to problems plaguing the financial industry in the spirit of the Benzinga Fintech Awards. Create a tool, app, or website, that will address one of the following themes: Structuring data for evaluation and analysis (by humans or computers), Filtering out market noise, Transparency, Bridging the financial education gap, Innovation in mobile, or reduction of screen real estate used, Making financial data easily digestible by humans, Finding Alpha (higher returns than market average), and Fairness between institutional and retail investors.

Come to the Music Experiences and Education Hackathon to work in collaboration with the audience and define design challenges by using the SmartBomb design kit. You will collaborate with musicians, programmers, artists, scientists, composers, hardware tinkerers and others around music making and learning. Workshops and team mentors will help develop the ideation process around the challenges defined on day one.

A Hackathon for musicians, programmers, scientists, and other artists to hack together on projects exploring music. At the end there will be a concert and presentations of the art, technology, and research developed. The event is open to everyone whether you want to participate or just have a look.

This is a photo hackathon that will take place at the International Center of Photography, a place with a long tradition of engaged photography in telling the most important stories since 1974. The New Media Narratives Program continues this tradition by inviting all creative visual storytellers including photographers, filmmakers, developers, designers, makers, journalists and visual artists to come together and collaborate on the future of storytelling. You will learn about multimedia, mobile, video, VR, how to create engaging content and tell your stories. You should bring a valid ID for admission, your laptop, mobile phone, whatever inspires and of course, your good energy and enthusiasm!

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.

The Freedom of Information Act is a powerful tool for citizens to keep the government accountable. The open-ended FOIA hackathon is inviting all journalists, programmers, designers, and academics to work on a FOIA-related projects using data. You can use any dataset you wish, but you’ll also be provided with data from MuckRock, FOIA Machine, iFOIA, and FOIA.gov.

The Fin-Tech Hackathon is hosted by Illicit Mind, a tribe for entrepreneurs to gain experiences, knowledge and connections. This event will explore the power of the crowd, collaboration and exponential technologies to scale projects to make a lasting impact. This is an opportunity for you to work collaboratively to strategically create solutions with the help of their users’ experiences. Illicit Minds are building a community of problem solvers, and forging a brand that emphasizes the need for community members to be involved in the development of technology. So come and make their lives better!

This is a hackathon which aims to increase the interest in STEM activities among New York City high school students of color by demonstrating the near universal application of STEM skills within the hackathon format, a model optimized for peer learning, participation, and achievement. Spanning two days, this event will ask attendees to form teams, and compete against each other in a bid to provide the best technical solution for the problems a the root of disparity.

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.