List of hackathons in Salinas, United States in 2016

A huge all day S.T.E.M. competition for Robotics, Game of Drones, Wearables, Sharktank to show entrepreneurs, university students, and Silicon Valley businesses the latest and greatest innovations in modern tech trends, and to help everyone at this Expo launch on their new concepts. Connect with other startups, innovators, and investors in Silicon Valley and get the chance to win amazing prices!

Developers! Ready to explore new facets of the Internet of Things (IoT)? Come stretch your Java, Node.js and Python skills and test drive the IOTRACKS open fabric for IoT stream processing. Build an app that ties together multiple sensor streams with enterprise systems. Go one step further and maybe add in some distributed computing with edge processing, and/ or cloud.

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!

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.

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.

These Hackathons will focus on coding and programming for youth. Bring your kids and let them discover how they can use code to generate the beginnings of interactive functions on-screen. There will be 5 separate hackathons, one per month starting February and ending in June! Teen Dev Camp teaches middle & high schoolers the leading edge of modern film making as well as web app development. Students will be able to create websites, web apps, web games, and even iPhone and Android apps!

This is a hackathon organized by Wellex Corporation and IBM on Internet of Things. Subjects that will be covered on this day include Cognitive Computing With IBM Watson IoT Platform, Wellex Manufacturing, Services and Move into IoT, and IoT Startups Pitch for innovations. Take part in the Internet of Things Open house to learn how to build services starting from a minimum viable product (MVP) to completely assembled and tested systems. Learn how IBM Watson IoT Platform extends the power of cognitive computing to the Internet of Things—billions of connected devices, sensors and systems that comprise the IoT.  You will hear from a group of emerging IoT startups pitch and showcase their solutions. Included is a hands-on session where you’ll learn the components necessary to build innovative apps in the Cloud using IBM Bluemix – The Digital Innovation Platform. All IoT subject matter experts, investors, corporations and startups are welcome to attend this event and for a space for networking and potential opportunities!

This is a hackathon is hosted by Agora partnering with BitTigeron to build creative new applications for cutting-edge real time communication through mobile devices. Agora is developing the next generation of web RTC technology, and is already working with some of the biggest mobile application producers like Xiaomi. Very fast voice and video calls open up new possibilities for collaboration and communication. This is an open-ended challenge, you are free to come up with whatever you want. Examples of user cases could be collaborative e-learning, social applications, dating apps, customer service, telehealth, gaming, etc. Participants are allowed to begin work on the projects as soon as the official announcement and registration link opens Participants must incorporate either the iOS or Android SDK and a real-time-communication feature as a core part of the project. Otherwise it is an open challenge. The final coding workshop session, with support from BitTiger teachers, will be on Saturday and final demos will be presented. People are welcome to join even if they cannot attend the final in-person workshop on March 26th. There will be a live stream for remote participants to present their demos.

This is a 3-day workshop where you all about Big Data with a specific focus on Hadoop, Spark, NoSQL and Cassandra. The workshop is targeted for a small focused group of attendees with more than 70% hands on lab. You will not only learn the technology but also get familiarized with industry specific applications. This course is appropriate for any Big Data enthusiast including Software Programmer, Project Manager, Product Manager, Architect, DBA or Quality Analyst. Prior experience with programming is not necessary.