List of hackathons in Round Rock, United States in 2017

Hackers in and around Austin, Texas! Capital Factory invites you to participate in HACK the MACHINE, the U.S. Navy’s cybersecurity hackathon. You'll network with like-minded security professionals and collaborate on your choice of one of the following challenges: »Maritime Capture The Flag: Attempt to hack a ship »Data Science and the Seven Seas: Design algorithms that solve problems like human trafficking and piracy. »Designing Safer Oceans: Design safer alternatives to GPS for maritime Precision Navigation and Timing.

Hey CS/ECE Students! Looking for another awesome technology to use in your hackathon projects? Interested in some hands-on, guided learning with real software engineers? Want some free food?? If so, you’re in luck. Workday is hosting an Elasticsearch workshop just for you! What is Elasticsearch? Elasticsearch is a powerful open-source search engine that is widely used in the tech industry. It has gained momentum quickly due to its easy-to-use REST API, distributed nature, and full-text search capabilities. The world around us is full of data - whether you’re interested in a career in startups, large-scale tech, or just enjoy learning new things, Elasticsearch is a great technology to be familiar with. ES is utilized by companies such as Facebook, Soundcloud, Github, and many more to bring intelligent search to their products. During this workshop, we’ll teach you the basics of ES and introduce you to some tools that make working with it super easy. You’ll also get a chance to meet fellow interns from other companies, as well as learn about how we use Elasticsearch at Workday! What you’ll learn: Search engine basics How to use Elasticsearch Working with HTTP / REST APIs Tools for ES development Schedule: 12:00 - 12:05: Arrive, grab food, hang out 12:05 - 12:20: Intros, What is Elasticsearch? 12:20 - 12:50: Basic ES Commands 12:50 - 1:50  : Building a product with Elasticsearch 1:50 - 2:00    : Wrap-up, Q&A What to bring: Your own computer (& perhaps charger) Excitement for learning something new A hungry stomach :) Who's invited? Any student who has experience writing software (including graduate students!). The more experience, the better, as we may not be able to help everyone debug their code on a 1-to-1 basis if there are a lot of attendees. If you're curious what sort of technical material will be covered, please take a look at the workshop code (especially the README) at https://github.com/bojdell/es-workshop. Before the workshop: Be sure to have Git installed (https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Getting-Started-Installing-Git) Have a lightweight text editor available (we recommend Sublime Text: https://www.sublimetext.com/3, but vim is cool too) Be comfortable navigating your terminal of choice (ideally POSIX) The code for the workshop is hosted here: https://github.com/bojdell/es-workshop Please Note: this workshop is for students only!

Creating Interactive Fiction Using Twine Wednesdays 6:00 - 9:00 pm 6 class sessions from Jan 25 - Mar 1Student Showcase on Mar 25 $220 per student ABOUT THIS CLASS Are you a writer seeking to explore interactive non-linear stories? Or a performer interested in exploring a new interface with your audience? Have mainstream video games that recycle the same old tired storylines and gory gimmicks left you hungry for new kinds of narratives? This course focuses on the use of Twine to create live, choice-based performances guided by your audience’s votes. We will combine live performance techniques with simple technology to create an engaging performance your audience will never forget. Imagine creating a choose-your-own-adventure performance in which the audience determines the fate of your characters and every ending is a surprise! Or a performative horror piece where your audience must navigate twists and turns in a complex story while it unfolds onstage. With this class, we will be learning the basics of creating fiction in Twine, game theory and audience participation methods and theater to create a performance with multiple endings and avenues for the audience to directly influence the story. You will walk away with mastery of a powerful tool for creating interactive plots and experience performing in front of a live audience. It's a unique opportunity to combine both humanity in technology into a powerful expressive art form. ABOUT TWINE If you're interested in making interactive fiction then there's no better place to start than Twine. Embraced by creatives from every walk of life, Twine is accessible to all; you don’t need to be an experienced coder to create your first game. Twine has been lauded as a cultural force in the NY Times, The Guardian, Rhizome, and many more. WHAT YOU'LL LEARN Master the ins and outs of the Twine software Construct interactive and non-linear stories Hone your storytelling skills Enhance live performances with audience interaction Discover how (and why) minority communities have embraced Twine Perform your creation at the class exhibition! COURSE MATERIALS A laptop and access to Google Docs RECOMMENDED READING Videogames for Humans: Twine Authors in Conversation edited by Merritt Kopas, and How to Make Games with Twine by Anna Anthropy ABOUT YOUR INSTRUCTOR Chelsea Hostetter is a Senior Interaction Designer at frog design. Initially trained in fine arts and linguistics from Carnegie Mellon University, she went on to study interaction design at the Austin Center for Design based on her love of designing video games and websites. When not researching or designing, she can be found creating her own video games for hackathons like the Global Game Jam. She has made various interactive Twine games including a performative piece to propose to her now-husband, a fiction game about a wandering samurai, and a piece called "Impostor" which she performed at interaction16 in Helsinki and in Moscow, Russia.

AI hackers! General Assembly and IBM invite you to participate in the Watson Workspace Hackathon. You'll team with like-minded indidviduals to build an app for IBM's Watson Workspace collaboration tool. The event is being held in three cities — Los Angeles, New York and Austin — and the winner in each city win a trip to present their solutions at IBM Connect 2017 in San Francisco.