List of hackathons in Saint Louis, United States in 2018

What the Women's Hackathon does it will put students in a group to work with a mentor to work towards a common goal. As a student participant, they will be expected to help a mentor and team of 3 other students successfully conceptualize and create a prototype of an application. The applications are built around the problem statement that is given the morning of the event. The event is important to our organization because it does help the students in the business program to work together to reach a common goal. The Audience is both students and business. The mentors that come in are from business around the St. Louis area that are willing to help. This will impact the UMSL campus around We will be utilizing the rooms on the 1st floor of ESH and also the parking around the building. If you are interested in going please register also at http://umsl.edu/go/HVH

Hacks and the City: A Smarter Safer City Hackathon News and Updates                                           #SCIRAHack Learn more:      Introduction            Virginia Beach               SensorThings More data: STLGISData As part of the SCIRA (Smart Cities Interoperability Reference Architecture) initiative, OGC and T-REX are pleased to present Hacks and the City: a Smarter Safer Cities Hackathon. The Hackathon will take place on November 2-4 at the T-Rex innovation center in St. Louis, MO. The goal of Hacks and the City will be to design and implement new application ideas that use a variety of city datasets and data sources to improve public safety, responder awareness, and community resilience. Those interested in participating are invited to form teams of 3-5 people and put together their ideas for applications that address one of four Smarter Safer City themes, and leverage data provided for St. Louis, MO and Virginia Beach, VA. The themes are: Intelligent buildings and first responder awareness: Indoor navigation and evacuation Building systems and sensors for indoor awareness Mobile / Wearable sensors and connectivity for first responders Urban canyons and street sensors Coverage of sensors based on smart lampposts Analysis and visualization of 3D city models Mobile / wearable connectivity and access to sensors Critical infrastructure resilience and flood response Predicted vs. actual inundation, new and old infrastructure vulnerability Evacuation planning and routing for storms and floods Flood damage dependencies and cascading failures Neighborhood safety and open / common space engagement Neighbor awareness of open / vacant / communal space Open space condition, community policing and crime occurrence Mobile / wearable sensors and connectivity for patrollers and responders Participants may also register as individuals and be matched with teams based on their desired roles and theme interests. Datasets relevant to one or more of these themes will be provided either as files or through API’s based on open standards. Suggested team roles include: Backend Developer Frontend Developer Domain Specialist Urban Mechanic Data Wrangler Hardware Hacker Information about available datasets, sample application ideas, and assistance with forming development teams will be announced at  https://scira.ogc.org/hack leading up to and upon arrival at T-Rex. Space is limited, so early registrants are more likely to be able to join us for the event. In keeping with the open data, open standards nature of this event, participant teams are expected to make their results openly available on Github with a license (e.g. Apache) that retains their copyright but allows others to join in evaluating and continuing their work.

GlobalHack will host a hackathon to reshape the experiences of foreign-born individuals and communities. During the hackathon, participating teams of all levels will work collaboratively with industry experts to build tools, apps and platforms to improve experiences for foreign-born individuals in St. Louis and beyond. Technologists, students and creatives from around the world are invited to participate for a chance to win $100,000 in prizes!

Our city has a serious vacant property challenge, one that affects all of us on personal, local, and regional levels. The reasons for vacancies are complex and solutions require a collaborative approach among local government, neighborhood leaders, nonprofit organizations, and other stakeholders. This workshop marks the launch of the Vacancy Collaborative, a growing coalition of local government officials, nonprofit organizations, neighborhood residents, and other stakeholders that are focused on addressing the vacancy challenge in our city.  Workshop participants will learn more about the purpose of the Vacancy Collaborative and meet the new coordinator, help identify priorities for the Vacancy Collaborative, work to connect existing vacancy efforts together and find out how to become more involved.  In addition, workshop participants will learn about, and provide feedback on, the Vacant Properties Portal, a new interactive web-based tool that enables us to use data to address the vacancy challenge in powerful ways.   This workshop is an outgrowth of prior vacancy summits (October 2016 and February 2017) as well as the recent April 2018 event at which workshop participants learned about a vacancy resource guide (available at risestl.org/vacancy-guide) and the Neighborhood Vacancy Initiative, which provides legal help to neighborhoods combating vacancy.  The Vacant Properties Portal was created in response to a request from Mayor Krewson at the Build4STL: Visualizing Vacant Housing Hackathon (September 2017) for creative technical solutions to the City’s vacancy challenge.  Funding to support the Vacancy Collaborative was provided, in part, by the Missouri Foundation for Health.   Schedule: 8:30AM-9:00 AM:  Workshop Check-in (coffee available) 9:00AM-12:00 PM:  Workshop BIG THANKS TO OUR SPONSORS!