List of hackathons in Newark, United States in 2016

Interested in data privacy? Come and participate in the hack day that the Data Transparency Lab is hosting alongside the DTL 2016 conference. The theme of the hack day's is “User Education on Privacy and Transparency”. Bring your ideas and creativity to help users understand why they should care about privacy! You'll collaborate with other participants to build a tool to help end-users—an app, a visualization, or educational tool, or whatever you can conceive. Here are some potential challenges: »Raising Awareness of Personal Information Leaks »Privacy Census »How much are you worth for Facebook? »How much is my data worth? »Parent-Child Education Challenge

New York area high school hackers! Come and strut your stuff at the def hacks() Hackathon in New York City. This is a hackathon for kids, organized and run by kids! It's open to all levels of coders — from beginners to experts. So if you are a beginner, no worries! There will be mentors and workshops to teach you the technologies and skills to use during the hackathon!

    Harlem Business Alliance’s HackHarlem is a day long hackathon dedicated to using technology to build a better Harlem. The first of multiple events will take place on November 19th in NYC at Creative Workspace @HBA. The goal of HackHarlem is to encourage the development of solutions to the problems facing the Harlem and other New York enclaves by those who live, work, and learn in those communities. Through continuous events, we intend to foster a community of civic minded technologists dedicated to improving the neighborhood and the lives of people within it.

Civic tech enthusiasts, data scientists, analysts, students in and around New York City! Want to play with new data to find insights that could help New York City? Sign up to participate in the NYC Connected Broadband Data Dig. Help by analyzing available data and providing recommended approaches to: »What public data the City should use to inform policy-making, »What factors impact levels of broadband availability or broadband adoption, »What City assets can be used to address broadband inequities.

Have an app idea or need an app built for your business? Whether you are a backend person, designer, entrepreneur, student, or just interested in tech, you are invited to attend this special IoT-focused Mobile App Hackathon. Come and hack and build apps/mobile apps, and compete for prizes across different categories. Experts from AT&T and the local technical community will be onsite to assist with your development. Just bring your laptop, skills & ideas. Come with a collaborative, team-focused mindset and/or team-up in advance using the #atthack hashtag on Twitter/Facebook/Google+.

Whether you are a bootstrapped founder, engineer, doctor, PhD scientist, business hacker, or student, you are invited to join this must attend Hackathon. Global Startup Hackathon is open to anyone who is planning to start, work, mentor or fund a startup. If you are seeking to launch a startup across a large market, you will enjoy this chance to mingle and network with potential co-founder, partner, corporate clients or investors along top industry domain experts. This event will focus on Digital, IoT, Health/BioTech, CleanTech, or Media.

Musicians and sound engineers! Come along to the monthly Music Hackathon NYC. This month's topic is Music Education. It's a free, non-competitive monthly all-day event for participants to create new music-related projects from scratch, develop them over a period of ~8 hours, then perform or present them in a concert format at 8pm.

NGA’s Expedition: Hackathon is looking for the best data explorers and developer storytellers in the US to finally find stories lying in disparate databases all over. These seldom used mountains of data lie dormant, waiting for someone to explore and study their findings, and to tell their stories to the world. Come and develop the next generation of engaging stories in time and space (geospatially) using the piles of data NGA will give you. Your app must educate and demonstrate data exploration at its finest!

Interested in statistics and how to communicate them to the world at large? Come and participate in StatFest 2016 - Illuminating Statistics via Dashboard, a hackathon sponsored by the Columbia University Statistics Club. You'll collaborate to use Rstudio to create innovative dashboards for visualizing statistical concepts, so that they are accessible to the general public.

So you're not a coder? Here's a hackathon for you! ProtoHack exists to show non-coders that they can create something amazing from nothing. Sign up today for this code-free event. Instead you will use the best tools for non-coders -- prototyping tools, drag and drop editors, mockups, wireframes -- to VISUALLY demo your idea on stage.  ProtoHack will be a 12-hour experience where you will build a prototype that communicates an idea visually.