List of hackathons in Littleton, United States in 2017

The Social is a collaborative week of events, bringing together social innovators and entrepreneurs from across the broader Denver and Front Range innovation ecosystem to engage with and learn alongside students, faculty, staff, and administrators of the University of Denver community. Speakers and special guests will include world-renowned thought-leaders, philanthropists, government officials, and investors. The Experience Participants in The Social will have the opportunity to network with colleagues from across sectors, and to roll up their sleeves through experiential workshops and collaborative learning opportunities. Attendees will take part in powerful, thought-provoking discussions that will spur ingenuity and broaden perspectives regarding the power of social innovation and impact work in the global economy. The first three days of The Social are organized into unique programming tracks by audience. Events and activities will include a hackathon, keynotes, workshops, and receptions designed to inspire new ideas, broaden networks, and encourage collaboration across sectors. Please also learn more about the Colorado Solutions Summit, which is happening on Thursday, October 26th. coloradosolutionssummit.org The Schedule Monday, October 23 @ Graduate School of Social Work (2148 S High St, Denver, CO 80210) 9:00 AM – 1:00 PM: Civic Hackathon on Youth Homelessness Part 1: Human-centered design (Craig Hall Community Room, 1st Floor) This civic hackathon is a chance for participants to join interdisciplinary teams to learn about the challenges faced by youth experiencing homelessness through engaging in quick, creative design thinking. Teams will receive expert consultation, engage in brainstorming, and develop solutions that could make life easier for unstably-housed youth and the organizations that serve them.  The hackathon will take place over two sessions from 9am-1pm on both Monday and Wednesday.   Teams will be formed at the event, and participants are encouraged to attend both sessions. 4:00 PM: Kickoff Address (Craig Hall, Community Room, 1st Floor) Welcome remarks by Provost Gregg Kvistad featuring Jason Green, Director and Producer at 1331 Productions, Co-Founder of SkillSmart, and Former Special Asst. to the President and Associate Counsel to the President in conversation with Dean Amanda Moore McBride, Graduate School of Social Work 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM: Innovation Showcase and Kickoff Reception (Craig Hall, Community Room, 1st Floor) Tuesday, October 24 @ Ritchie School of Engineering & Computer Science(2155 East Wesley Avenue, Denver, CO 80208) 9:00 AM – 11:00 AM: Design Thinking Workshop (Ritchie School of Engineering and Comp. Sci, 1st floor.) Michael Caston, Associate Professor of the Practice in Innovation & Product Design & Development, Executive Director of the Innovation Floor, Faculty Director of Creativity and Entrepreneurship Living Learning Community –Ritchie School of Engineering and Computer Science and Melissa Akaka, Ph. D.  Assistant Professor – Department of Marketing, Daniels College of Business / Co-Director – Consumer Insights and Business Innovation Center 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM & 1:30PM – 3:00PM: Community Workshops Social Innovation/Social Enterprise 101 with Dean Amanda Moore McBride, MSW, PhD. (ECS room 510) Community Voice & Design with Cara DiEnno, CCESL (1st floor) Earned Income Stream Development with Leslie Foster and Teresa Densmore (The Gathering Place) (ECS room 400) Evaluating Social Impact with Jennifer Bellamy & Jennifer Wilson (ECS 1st Floor) Social Impact Investing with the Barton Institute (ECS room 257) 3:30 PM – 5:30 PM: Open Garage Social  Baxter Cochennet (ECS Room 510) Open Garage Social is an opportunity for students, faculty, staff, and the greater DU community to meet and exchange knowledge, skills, and talents directly with their neighbors. Come find a helping hand and offer one in return - together, our goal is to strengthen the real world connections within the University of Denver community. Wednesday, October 25 @ Anderson Academic Commons (2150 E Evans Ave, Denver, CO 80210) 9:00 AM – 1:00 PM: Civic Hackathon on Youth Homelessness Part 2: Iterating and pitching solutions @ Korbel School of International Studies (SIE Complex, Korbel School of International Studies, SIE 5025) Please see description above 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM: Flash Design Workshop for Students (AAC room 290) Have you ever wondered what goes into planning a city? From basic utilities to an inviting aesthetic,  many cities work decades to build an intentional space that is inviting for the varying social demographics of their community. Students, join us for this fun and experiential activity where you will build a series of cities on a “state-map” out of a variety of resources in teams of 3-5. This is a great chance to get your hands dirty and build a city out of physical materials while engaging in design thinking and community-focused outcomes. 12:15 PM – 1:45 PM: Faculty Workshops (open to anyone) Project X-ITE with Managing Director Nina Sharma and Co-Director Matt Rutherford (AAC room 290) Community and Curriculum with Cara DiEnno and Anne DePrince (AAC room 284) Emergent Digital Practices/Gaming with Raphael Fajardo and Scott Leutenegger (AAC room 340) Experiential Learning in the Classroom with Julie Ann Laser-Maira (DU FACULTY ONLY 12-1pm) (AAC room 345) 2:15 PM – 3:45 PM: Faculty Workshops (open to anyone) Intellectual Property with Alex Hall (AAC room 212) Consumer Insights & Business Innovation Center with Melissa Akaka and Ali Besherat (AAC room 284) Barton with David Miller and Rebecca Arno (AAC room 290) 3:45 PM – 6:00 PM: Reception | Colorado Solutions Summit Kickoff | Social Impact Networking @ Korbel School of International Studies ) (2201 S Gaylord St, Denver, CO 80208, room 5025) Keynote (4:00 - 4:45 PM) Megan Smith, Entrepreneur, Engineer, 3rd U.S. Chief Technology Officer and Former Assistant to the President Reception & Social Impact Networking Event (4:45 - 6:00 PM)  5:00 - 9:00 PM: Tech Jobs Tour with Megan Smith @ Ritchie School of Engineering and Computer Science (ECS 510) This event is separate from THE SOCIAL.  Follow this link to learn more and to register for the event: https://techjobstour.com/tour-cities/denver/ Tickets Tickets are available until the date listed or when the category sells out, whichever comes first. Full Summit - $60.00 + $4.29 Fee (10/22) Monday Only - $20.00 + $2.09 Fee (10/22) Tuesday Only - $20.00 + $2.09 Fee (10/22) Wednesday Only - $20.00 + $2.09 Fee (10/22) Hackathons Only - $30.00 + $2.09 Fee (10/22) All events are free for DU students, staff, and faculty, but registration is still required. Cancellation Policy Tickets canceled prior to October 16th, 2017 at 9 am will receive a full refund.  After October 16th, all tickets are non-refundable and non-transferable. This policy is subject to change; all registered attendees will be notified of any changes. For more information, please visit www.projectxite.org/DUSocial or contact Chandler.Carlson@du.edu

Software developers, data scientists, engineers, designers, entrepreneurs...are you planning to participate in Unearthed Denver 2017 -- the 54-hour open innovation Hackathon featuring real challenges and data from the resources sector? If so, then you should plan to attend this information session, where you can from your team, ask questions, and get a head start on the Hackathon challenges.

A Hack the Dot is a two-hour hackathon where coding school students, junior developers, experienced developers, non developers, marketers, designers and those with little or no computer programming skill come together to build ideas around a single domain name. Our events are meant to be a quick and fun way to build a humorous (and functional) product quickly while meeting people in your tech/startup community. There will be pizza. And beer. and soda. What to Bring / How to Prepare: • Bring your laptop and charger. Not required but suggested for you coder types: • Install the Atom text editor. Go here: https://atom.io/ • Setup a github.com account How does it work? Step 1: Attendees are broken up into random teams. Step 2: The teams are provided with the same undisclosed domain name by Name.com, arbitrary and often hilarious. Step 3: Teams have just two hours to come up with a functioning site inspired by that domain. The team builds the most creative and fun idea for the domain wins. Participants will be judged on four criteria: (1) functionality, (2) design, (3) humor, and (4) creative domain name interpretation. What do you get at the event? FOOD! SWAG! FRIENDS! How much does it cost? It’s FREE! Questions? Send them to HacktheDot at name.com.

A Hack the Dot is a two-hour hackathon where coding school students, junior developers, experienced developers, non developers, marketers, designers and curious web people come together to build ideas around a single domain name. Our events are meant to be a quick and fun way to build a humorous (and functional) product quickly while meeting people in your tech/startup community. There will be pizza. ROSALEE'S PIZZA. And beer. What to Bring / How to Prepare: • Bring your laptop and charger. Not required but suggested you coder types:  • Install the Atom text editor. Go here: https://atom.io/ • Setup a github.com account How does it work?   Step 1: Attendees are broken up into random teams. Step 2: The teams are provided with the same undisclosed domain name by Name.com, arbitrary and often hilarious. Step 3: Teams have just two hours to come up with a functioning site inspired by that domain. The team builds the most creative and fun idea for the domain wins. Participants will be judged on four criteria: (1) functionality, (2) design, (3) humor, and (4) creative domain name interpretation. What do you get at the event? FOOD! SWAG! FRIENDS! How much does it cost?   It’s FREE! Questions? Send them to HacktheDot at name.com.

DevMeetings invites you to a full-day workshop on the latest versions of Angular. Recent release of Angular 4 raises a lot of questions in community: Has it changed a lot when comparing to Angular 2? What about migration from Angular 1.5 into Angular 4? What about migration from Angular 2 into Angular 4? If you plan to use Angular in your projects, you don't need to wait any longer. We strongly encourage you to learn and master Angular 4 now - together with TypeScript. Why learn the newest version? The creators of Angular wanted to break with many concepts of the first version of the framework. Their main objective was to introduce a solution which would perfectly cooperate with modern browsers that get support for ES2015/2016. That is why many parts of Angular have been thoroughly analysed and created from scratch. The most important changes include: detecting changes based mainly on immutable data structures and observable objects putting stronger emphasis on writing object-oriented code as well as functional rebuilt dependency injection container, now also allowing creating a hierarchy of containers major simplification of the services concept dynamic loading of components during the application life-cycle breaking with strict attachment to DOM, which in result enables rendering on the server side simplified implementation of custom components and communication between them simplified form management As you can see, the list of changes is quite large and some of them make a great improvement compared to the first version. Many of them are the answers to the problems and needs that have been discovered by the users working with Angular 1. Some of them also result from development of JavaScript language and improvement of browser functionalities. It means that we get a tool which is much easier to understand and use, as well as providing less of "magic" behaviour and more of the expectable ones. In a nutshell – a very good tool, tailored to meet the demands of modern front-end. 100% practical During the workshop, the participants will implement a simple online shop from scratch using Angular and TypeScript and will get a chance of facing real project problems, such as: How to use TypeScript so that it helps rather than stands in your way? How to make your application independent from the back-end for testing purposes? How to conveniently validate data in a form and send it further on? How to build components and organise communication between them so that your code does not look like spaghetti? How to manage dependencies (including Angular itself) and what is the future of Angular? Your instructor My name is James Gibson. Currently, I am the Director of Engineering at flowhub.co. I use node.js so often that I go by james.the.nodester online. I am automating my house with JavaScript for the fun of it. I was born and raised in Maryland, and I hold an BS in Information Systems with a minor in Geographic Information Science from Salisbury University. Github: james-gibsonTwitter: thenodesterDenver devs: James.the.nodester Our sponsor Galvanize is a 21st Century school for entrepreneurs, engineers, and data scientists. On eight campuses across the U.S., the energy, intellect and ambition of Galvanize students, members and alumni are at the heart of a learning community that promotes belonging, and that celebrates courage and growth. Practical information Where: The exact location will be mailed to the participants. When: Saturday, 22 July, at 9:30 am. What you should bring: BYOL: Bring Your Own Laptop and lunch. Participation fee: free What is DevMeeting? DevMeeting is a mix of hackathon and programming workshop. Throughout the day, participants implement a sample application – on their own and in teams. Experienced mentors supervise the learning process, support the participants with their help, provoke discussions and share their practical know-how, as well as best practices. DevMeeting is not a lecture or a classic training. We focus on practical skills, coding and exchanging knowledge and experience. It is also a great opportunity to meet other developers and expand your professional network. Find us on Gitter: https://gitter.im/devmeetings/devmeetings Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/devmeetingsus/, Twitter: @DevMeetingsEN Our Denver Meetup: https://www.meetup.com/Denver-DevMeetings/

Autodesk Design Swarms Workshop by AUTHENTIC This is a day-long event led by Surya Vanka the creator of Design Swarms Workshops. Participants will be provided all materials, tools, and a completion certificate. All are welcome. No previous design knowledge or experience is needed. Thanks to the generous sponsorship of Autodesk the regular workshop fee of $400 has been subsided to $25 only for Denver Design Week 2017 attendees. Workshop is limited to 60 participants. No refunds. Design Swarms Workshops A Design Swarms Workshop is a unique agile problem-solving format that brings together the speed and flexibility of hackathons with the user-centered design thinking. Design Swarms have helped to accelerate solution development in large corporates (Amazon, Autodesk, Microsoft, MSR, T-Mobile), small startups (Authentic, DataDesignBiz, ColorTool), non-profits (Net Impact, Clinton Global foundation, Global Humanitarian Lab), education (UW, OSU, RMIT) and social innovation projects (eg. Reducing women’s homelessness in Seattle, aging with independence in Hong Kong, traffic safety in Indian cities, maker labs for refugee camp in Rwanda).  Design Challenge: Hacking Homelessness Home to some of the most innovative businesses on the planet, Colorado is enjoying an economic boom. Yet Colorado’s homeless population increased by 13% last year, and has the third worst drug problem in the country.  A perfect storm of circumstances is pushing many onto the streets. What would happen if we used design-led approaches to address this challenge? You will be given a specific design challenge relating to homelessness in Denver on the morning of the workshop and will tackle this as a team working with other concerned citizen (designers, researchers, data scientists, engineers, sociologists, students, and others) and will be led through fun, creative and intensely collaborative series of high-velocity design thinking sprints to propose a solution. This is a competition with prizes for the top teams.

*Must Be A Registered GlueCon Attendee to Participate in the Hackathon* The Capital One DevExchange Hackathon is awarding prizes to top teams in each category including RC Quadcopter Drone, Punchbox Bluetooth Speakers, Amazon Echo Dots and Taps, and Occulus Rift VR Headsets. Discover the Relevance, Reach, and Value of Innovative New API Products for an evening of of building and challenging the status quo. As a participant in this exclusive event, you will gain insider experience working with devs, industry and API experts from Capital One DevExchange and Amazon Alexa. You and your team will work to lower the barriers faced by consumers in the financial and related markets as you: -Enable a whole new customer-center platform experience.  -Utilize your skills to exceed at a high threshold.  -Gain firsthand insights with a suite of well-built targeted APIs in the booming Fintech industry. -Build new or enhance existing applications with powerful new APIs. -Reinvent the future at the Capital One DevExchange Hackathon. Featured APIs: Bank Account Starter - Get a first look at an exciting new API that makes it easy to connect to the Capital One banking platform. Learn more. Rewards - Access information on the miles, points or cash rewards your customers have earned with their Capital One accounts. Learn more. Credit Offers -  Returns a personalized list of Capital One credit card offers in under 60 seconds based on just a few pieces of personal information. Learn more.  Amazon Alexa - As a special feature of this Hackathon, the Amazon Alexa team will be on site to teach teams how to create Alexa Skills for their apps. The Alexa Skills Kit is a collection of self-service APIs, tools, documentation and code samples that make it fast and easy for teams to add skills to Alexa. The team with the best Alexa UX will be awarded an Amazon Tap and Dot for each team member. More information on building Skills for Alexa available here: https://developer.amazon.com/alexa   Each participant will receive a generous SWAG kit from Capital One DevExchange for participating. We're also creating rewards for finishing at the top of each API and judging category as well as recognizing overall top finishers. It's an opportunity to show what you're capable of and gain recognition for yourself and your team as fintech developers. SCHEDULE  - Capital One DevExchange/Alexa Hackathon Prep will take place on Wednesday, May 24th at 2:15p in Breakout 5  - Hackathon will take place from 7:30p - Midnight on Wednesday, May 24th in Breakout 3 - Pancake Breakfast (to include demonstrations & judging) for the *hackathon participants* will take place on Thursday, May 25th at 7:30a in Breakout 3 - Winners will be announced on Thursday, May 25th at 10:45a in the Keynote Room 

Techies in and around Denver, CO. Galvanize Platte Street invites you to participate in An Evening of Data Science, Star Wars, and Tacos with SendGrid and NVIDIA. This event will be part conference and part hackathon. You'll first hear from experts on IBM Watson and Data Science Experience (DSX), then you'll get the chance in a collaborative hackathon to demonstrate your skills and creativity by solving real world problems!

Students and professionals in Boulder and the greater Denver area. You're invited to be a participant, a mentor, or a volunteer at the HackCU hackathon -- the largest annual hackathon in the Rocky Mountain region. As a mentor or volunteer, you'll help students with their hackathon project and give guidance in the area in which you specialize.