List of hackathons in Salinas, United States in 2017

Techie teens in the Santa Clara area! Know how to program in Scratch? Great! Then you're invited to participate in the Teens Teach: Mini SCRATCH Hackathon. This is a mini non-competitive event, where you'll be able to practice your Scratch coding skills and collaborate with others. Come as a team, or meet new friends at the event. Come and strut your Scratch skills and win some cool door prizes!

Event Overview Merge VR will be hosting a game jam focused on their recently released product, Merge Cube, which allows you to hold a hologram in your hand. Also available for development will be Moonshot, their universal mobile motion controller for creating engaging experiences in virtual reality. Moonjam is like a game jam, but focused on creating experiences in virtual reality and augmented reality. This isn’t a contest or an all-night hackathon. It’s a fun collaborative space where creative people get together to make mind-blowing VR and AR experiences. Attendees will be the first in the world to use this exciting new tech, and be allowed to take home a set of Merge Goggles and a Merge Cube. Meet new people, learn new things, and be a part of the booming VR scene! We will also be awarding Vuforia Classic Licenses to the top 3 games ($1500 value), so this is a great chance to develop something and get your vuforia license paid for! Schedule of Events Friday, July 7th, 7PM - 9PM // Developer Meet & Greet Saturday, July 8th, 8AM - 10PM // Jam!! Sunday, July 9th, 8AM - 4PM // Jam!! Sunday, July 9th, 5pm-7pm // Show and Tell! FAQs What computer do I use? Bring your own computer! Load up your favorite game engines and be ready to roll! We'll have iPhone's with us so if you plan to develop on iOS make sure to bring a Mac! Do I have to focus on mobile? Yes! Bring your own development device too! But just in case, we’ll have limited mobile devices for you to borrow. Can I use the controller or do I have to use the cube? Merge VR will supply a Moonshot and Merge Cube SDK, but you should bring any other code, prefabs, and other game materials you might need. I want to participate but I don't have a team, can you help? If you don’t have enough people to make up a team, let us know and we’ll help you find your missing skill sets! There will be several opportunities to meet other developers and artists and form your team, and we're happy to help you out! Where do I park?  Cogswell has parking available at the building. Organizer: Jeremy Kenisky Organizer Description: Jeremy is Vice President at Merge VR and leads content development, software, and creative design teams. He will be on site along with several of Merge's lead developers to help facilitate MoonJam and give all the teams the best chance they have at success. Facebook / Twitter: "/MergeVR" Public Page: Yes Event type: Gaming / Competition Event Topic1: Film, Media, & Entertainment Event Topic2: Gaming

Are you passionate about helping advance gender equality? CHIME FOR CHANGE, Global Citizen, Facebook and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers invite you to sign up to participate at ChimeHack 4. Come to this two-day hackathon and help create ways to overcome barriers to equality. You'll collaborate with like-minded hackers, issue experts and non-profit leaders to create tech-driven solutions focused on gender equality.

Directors, script-writers, transmedia architects, production designers, sound designers, actors, VR developers, editors, and more! Think you can create a VR film in 36 hours? Garage Stories invites you to sign up to participate in their Garage Stories_36h VR Storytelling Hackathon. You'll collaborate with other VR film enthusiasts to create your own immersive world and a VR set that will be open to the public in Palo Alto + VR short.

Student hackers in Silicon Valley and Santa Clara County! You're invited to sign up to participate in the West Valley Hackathon 2017. You'll be given a challenge theme such as “When 2-D meets 3-D” and then be required to design and build an app based on your given theme. You will collaborate with other student hackers on a team and present your project to a jury.

What dances, eats, and lights up? Animals you create in the Robot Petting Zoo!  Come spend a very hands-on evening learning to design, build, and program your own robot animal with the Hummingbird Robotics Kit. Find out how you can host your own Robot Petting Zoo & Makeathon anywhere. No coding experience necessary--Absolute beginners are welcome! A Hummingbird Robotics Kit will be provided for you to use during the workshop, but if you want to take your kit home with you, be sure to purchase "Workshop + Hummingbird Base Kit" at checkout.  Do you already have a Hummingbird robotics kit? Feel free to bring it with you!  Please bring a laptop with Snap! software downloaded: http://hummingbirdkit.com/learning/snap-programming  The Robot Petting Zoo (RPZ) & Makeathon engages students and educators in friendly making, coding, and design with a creative twist on the traditional hackathon. During an RPZ Makeathon, student groups create animatronic animals while learning empathic design thinking, teamwork, and engineering using cardboard, robotics kits, code, and craft supplies. They then bring their animals together for a Robot Petting Zoo Showcase where the public, and especially young children, can interact with them.  RPZ's are transforming robotics education by engaging the disengaged, breaking stereotypes about who can be computer scientists, engineers, and technology innovators, and attracting more people into creative and technical learning in a more accessible, friendly way. Have questions about the workshop? Please contact Katie@birdbraintechnologies.com  Parking $5 Flat Rate at San Jose Convention Center. See Parking Map.

Open-source enthusiasts -- programmers, designers, QA types, UX designers, and other techies! Register for the Online Collaboration Tree Hackathon. You'll get to collaborate on the open-source Collaboration Tree (cTree) web platform for community think tanks. Come network and build your resume, while working with like-minded techies to help advance the cTree project by helping create an open-source tool for online collaboration around specific topics or goals. Visit the expert hackathon advice pagefor answers to your questions on participatiing!

Fintech hackers! The Symphony Software Foundation invites you to participate in the Open Innovation Challenge. This two-month long virtual Fintech hackathon challenges you to develop a bot, app or integration for the Symphony platform. Showcase your skills and compete for prizes in a number of categories, including Best Integration and Best Open Innovation.

Event Summary  herScript Hacks is an annual regional hackathon meant to engage and excite the tech community by creating technological solutions to real-world problems. This year’s herScript hackathon will be an agTech themed hackathon for college level students interested in AgTech. Event Vibe herScript will create an environment that fosters innovation. Each team will be encouraged to think outside of the box and their imagination will have no bounds. Attendees will feel as if they are in an AgTech incubator. A trialogue between students, facebook engineers, and agriculture experts will feel natural, and each conversation will help all parties form relationships and better understand agriculture. Registration Requirements  Floor: Be familiar with Object-Oriented Programming and Data Structures Ceiling: It doesn't exist. Whether you're a student, first-year engineer, or senior engineer, feel free to take the weekend off and hack with us! FAQs Is this open to any gender?  Yes!  Do I have to be a student to attend?  No, we do have a floor defined, though. It would be helpful if you know OOP and data structures or have experience creating a software program. Whether you're a student, first-year engineer, or senior engineer, feel free to take the weekend off and hack with us!  What can I bring into the event? 1) Grit + Creativity  2) Laptop 3) Sleeping bag 4) Photo ID Are there ID or minimum age requirements to enter the event? Bring a form of identification to confirm your admission into the event. There are no age requirements; if you know object oriented programming and feel as if you can develop a prototype solution, please register.  What are my transportation/parking options for getting to and from the event? We encourage that you carpool with people that you know will be attending. You may want to route to the parking structure next door.  Monterey Street Parking Garage 20 E Market St, Salinas, CA 93901 Since it's 2017, this might be more helpful:  https://goo.gl/maps/4SggZx22Xak Is parking free?  Bad news: Not all of if. Good news: It's very inexpensive and we are covering 4 hours! (If you let us know you need a 4 hour voucher from us) The Monterey Parking Garage charges $4.00 for a full day pass and $2.00 to stay overnight until noon, and $0.50 per hour.  We do, however, have a free voucher to cover your last four hours (noon - 4pm on Sunday).  If you take a voucher from us, you will only have to pay $6.00. If you don't then you will have to to pay $8.00. How can I contact the organizer with any questions? Contact herScript.io@gmail.com. Please title the email with "herScript Hacks Eventbrite Question" Do I have to bring my printed ticket to the event? No, just your ID with your name and picture. You can bring your confirmation email if you would like.   Is it ok if the name on my ticket or registration doesn't match the person who attends? No, please make sure your name on the ID matches the name that you submitted on your registration form. If you need to change it, please contact the organizer of the event.  Can I sign up with a team? / How will teams be formed? No, but don't worry all teams will be self-formed on day one. Reference the itinerary on Saturday from 11:00a-12:00p for more information on this.  Team sizes will range from 3-4. We will allow larger teams if you can justify the size.  I don't want to participate, but I would still like to attend, can I? Yes, you can, but on Sunday. We will have our participants demonstrate their work on Sunday, April 30th from 1:00p - 3:00p. Feel free to attend during these hours! Please bring a friend to join you.  Where is the code of conduct? It's currently being authored, but just follow the golden rule and you'll be on our good list! Event Itinerary *Subject to change Saturday, April 29th  9:00a - 10:00a Check in (Coffee and pastries)   10:00a - 11:00a Agriculture Expert Series       In this segment, you will hear a few words from agriculture experts. They will talk about the impact that agriculture has, the problems that farmers are facing as an industry.   11:00a - 12:00p Team formation + Open trialogue between mentors, farmers, and participants       In this segment, the floor will be open for participants to speak to farmers about different operational problems they face to inspire an idea. Facebook engineers will also be present to help you think of a way you can produce a software solution. The floor will be divided into 5 - 10 clusters. Each cluster will have a mentor and a farmer. It will be a fluid experience, as participants can float from cluster to cluster until they find an idea they are interested in hacking. Students who wish full autonomy on their project idea do not need to participate with the purpose of finding an idea. Instead, they can use the time to pitch their idea to get feedback and valid the industry need of their idea.  12:00p - 1:00p Lunch  1:00p - 5:00p  Finalize Project Idea + Mock up + Development plan       During this time, you can begin developing a development plan for the evening.  5:00p - 6:00p Dinner          Saturday 6:00p - Sunday 9:00a Hack        During this time, you will receive help from a facebook engineer as needed.  Sunday, April 30th 9:00a - 10:00a Breakfast  10:00a - 12:00p Last minute work + Presentation creation + Demo practice      During this time, each team will be given a final presentation template. Each presentation will be planned to take no longer than 3-minutes, including a demo if possible.  12:00p - 1:00p Lunch  1:00p - 3:00p Public Showcase       During this time, each team will present to the panel of judges and compete for a grand prize (soon to be mentioned).  Event Partners  Western Growers Innovation Center Western Growers, founded in 1926, is a trade association of California, Arizona and Colorado farmers who grow, pack, and ship almost 50% of our nation's produce. To help our members do more with less, Western Growers launched the Western Growers Center for Innovation and Technology (WGCIT) in Salinas, CA. The Center was created to help identify industry priorities, discover technologies to address those priorities, set up testing, facilitate industry feedback and communicate progress to California, Arizona, and Colorado fresh produce farmers. Facebook Founded in 2004, Facebook’s mission is to give people the power to share and make the world more open and connected. People use Facebook to stay connected with friends and family, to discover what’s going on in the world, and to share and express what matters to them. Google IgniteCS The goal of igniteCS is to encourage undergraduate students who have an interest in computer science, diversity, and helping others to apply what they’re learning in the classroom through mentoring. We provide funding, resources, and support while student groups develop a program, find a faculty advisor, and take it into their local community.

Coders, scientists, designers, storytellers, makers, builders, and technologists in the Bay Area! You're invited to participate in the NASA Space Apps Challenge Silicon Valley - West Coast. You'll be part of a 48-hour global collaborative hackathon focused on space exploration. The theme will be solutions for the Earth -- and challenges will involve robotics, data visualization, hardware, design, and much more! You can select one of the following challenges: 1. The Earth and Us, 2. Planetary Blues, 3. Warning! Danger Ahead, 4. Our Ecological Neighborhood, and 5. Ideate and Create.