List of hackathons in San Marcos, United States in 2017

Citizens of Austin -- students and professionals, from any industry, any sector, every neighborhood, all experience levels and all ages! Want to share your technical skills for the good of the community? You're invited to sign up to participate in Austin’s ATX Hack for Change event. Come and collaborate on a technical project that can help address one of the UN's Global Goals, such as No Poverty, Zero Hunger, Good Health and Well Being, Quality Education, to name a few.

Citizens of Austin -- students and professionals, from any industry, any sector, every neighborhood, all experience levels and all ages! Want to share your technical skills for the good of the community? You're invited to sign up to participate in Austin’s ATX Hack for Change event. Come and collaborate on a technical project that can help address one of the UN's Global Goals, such as No Poverty, Zero Hunger, Good Health and Well Being, or Quality Education, etc.

The introduction of rideshare options in Austin has lowered drunk driving rates and produced new jobs, but what else do we know about rideshares? Galvanize, data.world, and RideAustin have teamed up to bring the data to YOU. Join us for a 6 hour hackathon using a RideAustin dataset (to be released on data.world one day before the hackathon). Teams will be assigned, and each team can either create their own question to answer or use a sample question provided at the event. Get Published & Win Prizes Data discoveries will be published on data.world. Also prizes will be given to winners of three categories: Best question: Given to the team who attempts to tackle the most interesting question. Best answer: Given to the team who successfully answers their question in the most convincing way. Best visualization: Given to the team which the most compelling and informative visualization. Agenda 10:00 am - 10:30 am: Arrive & Icebreakers  10:30 am - 10:40 am: Intro to the Dataset 10:40 am - 11:00 am: Evaluation Criteria (we will provide sample questions)  11:00 am - 11:15 am: Question Formation 11:15 am - 3:00 pm: Hacking Time (+ optional intro workshops) 3:00 pm - 3:20 pm: Present Findings 3:20 pm - 4:00pm: Winner Announcements & End Pre-requisites (what the audience should know to get the most value) Anyone who can program in (most) any language, although teams using Python or R usually are most successful. Experts are very welcome too! Anyone who wants to learn more data science techniques or practice their techniques. New to Coding & Hackathons? Fear not! We will be offering tutorials on-site. You can hop into a classroom, learn the basics, then jump right into the hackathon! Sponsors: About Galvanize Galvanize is the premiere dynamic learning community for technology. With campuses located in booming technology sectors throughout the country, Galvanize provides a community for each the following: Education - part-time and full-time training in web development, data science, and data engineering Workspace - whether you’re a freelancer, startup, or established business, we provide beautiful spaces with a community dedicated to support your company’s growth Networking - events in the tech industry happen constantly in our campuses, ranging from popular Meetups to multi-day international conferences To learn more about Galvanize, visit galvanize.com.

High tech and startup types in and around Austin! You're invited to join Capital Factory they open their new event space! Come and observe -- or participate in -- the Car2go MobilityX hackathon. This event will feature developers, designers, start-up types who are interested in mobility and connectivity applications for automobiles. They are being asked to create innovative solutions to one of two challenges: »How to get vehicles to Car2go members that need them? »How to ensure that vehicles maintain data connectivity?

Developers, designers, start-up types in Austin! Are you interested in mobility and connectivity applications for automobiles? Capital Factory and the car2go car sharing service invite you to participate in the MobilityX Hackathon. You'll be asked to create innovative solutions to one of two challenges: »How to get vehicles to members that need them? »How to ensure that vehicles maintain data connectivity?

Do you plan to be a participant or a project champion at ATX Hack for Change 2017? If so, then St. Edward's University invites you to participate in the Team Dynamics - ATX Hack for Change Workshop. You'll learn creative problem-solving styles for your team to adopt during the hackathon. You will also learn strategies to promote collaborative work environments.

DevOps techies in the Austin area! You're invited to participate in the "DEVOPS IN A SERVERLESS WORLD" hackathon at Devopsdays Austin 2017! You'll be able to really showcase your technical skills and creativity with amazing ideas for monitoring, deployment, and tooling challenges. You'll collaborate with a team and present your project to the jury -- finalists will have a week to work on your project until the final round of judging at DevOps Days Austin on May 5th.

Join SheSays ATX for a panel discussion with members of The Un.Incubator's April cohort. Hosted at Haven in West Campus and facilitated by its founder, Liz Deering, the conversation will explore women's roles in social entreprenuership and the impact that can result from it. Your ticket includes wine, snacks and face time with women who can help you grow professionally. About the panelists: Founder of Millennial leadership development company Me2Lead, Rachel Brownlow Lund teaches ambitious Millennials how to leverage mentorships, sponsors, peer-to-peer accountability partnerships and masterminds to radically up-level their personal and professional lives. She has helped dozens of Millennials establish and maintain successful mentorship relationships, which have resulted in lucrative career advancement opportunities, thousands of dollars in earned grant money, and key recommendations that moved the needle forward. With experience as an RF design engineer, computer programmer and teacher, Debra Kallinikos now designs backpacks, handbags and bags for various uses in the pet industry and has launched an original line of children's backpacks under the brand name, Animal Packers. She's gone through the process of taking an original design from idea to design to prototype to documentation to manufacture to market. As an entrepreneur, software engineer, front end developer, writer and speaker based in Austin, Texas, Sara Inés Calderón has written for a variety of publications, including TechCrunch and Vice, as well as several Texas newspapers, and currently runs her own software company, Tercera. She serves as Director and Evangelist for Women Who Code Austin and co-founded the Austin Diversity Hackathon.  About the moderator: Liz Deering is a social entrepreneur, designer, brand-builder and community-advocate. She is the Founder of Haven, and the Co-Founder of The Un.Incubator. She has spent her career in technology and marketing, building brands and programs for tech startups and nonprofits and has a passion for empowering others who have dedicated their careers to impact work.

Virtual reality hackers, designers, coders, as well as chemists, lab techs. Are you passionate about the use of virtual and augmented reality in the biopharma space? You're invited to participate in Hack EMD: Creating the Future of Enterprise AR & VR. You'll be challenged to come up with your own innovative idea for how AR/VR can be applied to one of the following business challenges: »Create AR tool to enable hands-free laboratories and collaboration. »Develop a solution for AR/VR collaboration in an R&D setting. »Create AR/VR customer support system for remote troubleshooting of physical lab equipment. »Improve Unity environment of a life sciences laboratory to make better VR training experience.

Ever wonder what the difference is between a UI designer and a Web Developer? Do you know the skill sets you will need to make a mobile app? Where do writers fit in? Join us at the Google Fiber Space for Hackathon Tech + Tools: everything you need to know the rubies and snakes and everything in between. With the hackathon around the corner, we know that it can be daunting to decipher what you need on the day of, and sometimes, you might not know until you see it. Our workshop will be your chance to see into the future. We will provide you with helpful tools, skills, and capitvating people to create a successful project. (Crystal ball not included.) If you're a Project Champion, take note that you can take advantage of this workshop to close the loop on any loose ends for your project and get the assistance you need to be ready to submit by May 19th. We're grateful to Google Fiber for hosting and teaching this workshop. Host:  St. Edward's University (We’re a liberal arts university in Austin — and that’s just the beginning.) We are intellectuals with big hearts, as passionate about learning as we are changing the world. We are an international community with a Catholic heritage and students (and faculty) from all faiths, all nations and all walks of life. Our identity is shaped by our location in Austin, Texas, and strengthened by our partner universities all over the world. We are an award-winning educational institution, recognized by our peers and by places like U.S. News & World Report for what we offer our students — and what they accomplish with what they learn here. Who we are is rooted in where we come from. Our founders, the Congregation of Holy Cross, have been educating diverse students to think critically, act ethically and strive for social justice since the 1830s. Now it’s our turn. Partners: Open Austin is a volunteer citizen brigade advocating for open government, open data, and civic application development since 2009. They are affiliated with the nonprofit Code for America, which believes government can work for the people, by the people in the 21st century. Open Austin is focused on the needs of our own community and we use design, technology, and open data to improve the quality of life in our city. Google Fiber is committed to bringing reliable, affordable internet to all people in Austin. By building a fiber optic network in Austin, Google is bringing 1000 MBPS internet speeds to the public. Google's mission is to make all information universally accessible and useful.  The City of Austin Innovation Office helps diverse and inclusive teams examine challenges and opportunities to surface better ideas and solutions that make a lasting, positive impact. The Innovation Office works with internal and external partners to develop, test, organize, and encourage innovative projects with the goal of fostering a culture of innovation within the City of Austin.