List of hackathons in Santa Barbara, United States in 2016

Passionate about the health of the people of America? Want to help address issues such as lack of good nutrition, limited access to pre-natal care and childhood poverty? Come and participate in Hacks for Health. Collaborate and apply your software skills to create solutions to a particular issue in health and nutrition. The Hacks for Health topics this year are Poverty and Hunger, Food Deserts, and Maternal/Infant Health.

This is a 2-day event created to connect young talents in the field of design, engineering and entrepreneurship with innovation opportunities presented by major companies. The event will include a vision of the Google Keynote I/O and a hackathon in which participants will compete to find the best creative new solutions to business cases proposed by Google.

The Student Life Hackathon is inviting all thinker, do’ers, programmers, designers, makers, and entrepreneurs for a 24 hour challenge to design, build, and present an idea, website, game, app or solution to problem. All high school and college students are invited to participate and experience what it's like to pitch an idea, form a team and start a business in 24 hours. Winning teams will be awarded prizes and mentorship.

SOCIHACKS is a hackathon organized in honor of earth month in collaboration with the Small Business Institute of California State University Channel Islands. This event will provide an interactive hackathon where 100 young girls (ages 9-12) from underserved areas of Ventura County will get to work together in teams to develop websites and videos focused on raising awareness about the environment.