List of hackathons in Palo Alto, United States in 2016

The Telegenic Hackathon hosted by Black Sails Technology Inc and sponsored by Techcode is inviting all tech experts and anyone who is interested in coding to demonstrate their talents, challenge themselves in coding and win amazing prizes! Get the chance to connect with potential co-founder, partner or investors along top industry experts. The hacking topic will be revealed on the day of the event!

The inaugural ATHackathon aims to create innovative tools to track & analyze data related to trafficking. Human Trafficking is a multi-billion dollar criminal industry that enslaves over 20 million people around the world. Reliable data remains a major challenge at the heart of anti-human trafficking efforts. Lack of data = lack of issue legitimacy, data informed solutions, and public awareness. Come and be part of a change!

Come to this first High School Technology Summit in celebrating of the makers who are pioneering the HS hacker scene and community. There will be a HS Hack Expo hosted and awards to the best hacks created over the past year will be give out. Speaking panels of CEOs and Founders, HS hackathon organizers and organizations, diversity organizations, and representatives from top companies and Y Combinator startups will be present. You will get prepared to organize a hackathon at your own high school and you will discuss the importance of computer science in HS and collaboratively brainstorm and work on solutions!

Come join herScript for a chance to create an app using MIT's App Inventor, and learn what it takes to complete the app development process from idea to deployment in just one day! You will be competing against other teams to create the best app for the hackathon's theme, which will be revealed on the day of the event. Different prizes will be rewarded for each of the three categories. Each team will be partnered with a mentor from the club, and will be coached throughout the entire process. All equipment, such as laptops and testing phones, will be provided for you.

Hack for Homelessness is a hackathon to help contribute to solving homelessness! Aside from giving a few dollars from time to town it is hard to know how to help homelessness. In Silicon Valley, the place where there’s an app everything, they have work to do when it comes to addressing their neighbor’s basic human needs. Join the Homeless Hackathon together with unhoused individuals, developers, designers, marketers, and problem-solvers from across the technology and nonprofit sectors to design solutions to homelessness. Food and drink will be provided.

Def Hacks() is hackathon hosted by high school students, and is only for high school students. A 24-hour hackathon that will aim to help students discover and learn something new, with workshops and mentors. The two themes for this hackathon are related to finding an issue in your community and making something to help combat the problem. It can either be for preventing bullying and/or stress at school or building something to make your city more efficient and intelligent. So come work on innovative projects which have the potential to improve or influence people’s lives. Try to build a hack that people can use, enjoy, and potentially scale. Bring your laptop, mouse, and any snacks that you prefer. Breakfast, lunch, and dinner is included during the event. If you're planning on sleeping, bring a sleeping bag, pillow, and toothbrush.

AppLovin is hosting a 24-hour hackathon for tvOS developers. Offering creative hacking challenges to build the coolest Apple TV app possible, special prizes, food, drink, and other entertainment. Two winners will receive $5,000 and a chance to demo their app to journalists, VCs and other influencers.

This is a special immigration-themed design sprint workshop bringing together forward-thinking designers, hackers, and legal & policy experts to learn and apply the best practices in design thinking and hereby inspire creative new solutions to problematic issues in immigration. The three primary goals of this event are on finding creative ideas tested with real immigrants from different backgrounds, bringing together legal/policy experts, design thinkers, and technologists who wouldn’t otherwise meet, and to build a community and continue what you have started at the Startup Weekend Immigration.

Hackathon Kevin Schawinski, ETH Zurich Laurent Vanbever, ETH Zurich Task 1: Home networks 2.0 Task 2: Build your own citizen science project. Sponsored by Swisscom.

ProtoHack want to provide non-coders with the tools, knowledge and connections to bring their idea to life with the creation of a real prototype. No coding will be required. At the end, you or your team will present your prototype on stage to a panel of judges to get feedback.