List of hackathons in Santa Cruz, United States in 2015

Signing up here confirms your attendance to HackingEDU. Reserve your spot now! The event starts at 6pm, but arrive early to guarantee entry! Note: You must use the email that you provided during registration.    Directions to the Venue San Mateo County Event Center 1346 Saratoga Dr San Mateo, CA 94403    FAQs Are there ID requirements or an age limit to enter the event? If you are below the age of 18, make sure to print out the Liability Waiver and have it be signed by a guardian, then bring it to the event.   What are my transport/parking options getting to the event? We will be providing shuttles to all the major UC's in California.  There are parking options available at the event center, at $10 per night. We have also set up carpooling options at: http://www.rickyrides.com/hackingedu-hackathon Note: Unfortunately, we have given out all of our travel reimbursements and will not be providing any more. Where can I contact the organizer with any questions? team@hackingedu.co   Do I have to bring my printed ticket to the event? Please print out the ticket if you can, or you can show us your ticket on your phone.

BVP's Hackathon is your chance to work alongside some of the best hackers in the Bay Area, using the coolest technologies to solve a community issue.  Sounds fun right? It will be -- as long as you can perform under pressure.  You'll only have 24 hours to solve a local challenge.  Whether it’s traffic, the drought, or housing, we believe smart devs and designers will unlock the solutions of the future. Teams of 3 will be formed at the event. Developers and Designers welcome. Space is limited so apply now. Click "Register" to apply now.    Judges: Jeff Lawson, Twilio Founder/CEO     Isaac Schlueter, npm Founder/CEO     Kakul Srivastava, VP of Product Management at GitHub    James Lindenbaum, Heavybit/Heroku Co-Founder   Sunil Nagaraj, Bessemer Venture Partners   Evangelists from these dev tools companies will be on hand to answer your questions:     and more!     With special prizes for the top 3 teams (each team member will get one): DJI Phantom 2   . Oculus Rift Dev Kit 2     Printrbot 3D printer       It all goes down at the Heavybit Clubhouse in San Francisco:  Heavybit is a 9-month program for developer startups. Selected companies receive daily hands-on traning and coaching on how to grow a developer-focused company. Heavybit's entrepreneurs, advisors, and investors are shaping the future of software. Located in the the heart of San Francisco's SOMA district, Heavybit has taken a three story building with an industrial concrete and timber heritage, and transformed it into an award-winning space, tailor made to be a collaborative and productive environment for entrepreneurs to call home.   Schedule: Friday, October 23th 5:00pm - Saturday, October 24th 9:00pm Build for 24 hours with food, drinks, and other activities to keep you refreshed Judging at 6:00pm on Saturday       BVP is dedicated to providing a harassment-free hackathon experience for everyone, regardless of gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, or religion. We do not tolerate harassment of hackathon participants in any form. Sexual language and imagery is not appropriate for any hackathon venue, including talks. Hackathon participants violating these rules may be sanctioned or expelled from the hackathon at the discretion of the hackathon organizers.

HACKBRIGHT TECH TALK: Winning Hackathons as a Newbie Jenny Wang will be speaking about how new programmers can win hackathons on Tuesday, October 20, 2015 at Hackbright Academy. She is a TA for the "Intro to Programming" course at Hackbright. The talk starts at 6:30pm PST. Snacks, drinks and networking starts at 6pm. Hackbright tech talks are livestreamed. Just sign up for the ticket type above to receive livestreaming info for the talk. About the Talk: Hackathons are great ways to learn new skills, make great friends, and gain confidence in yourself as a developer, especially a new one; and who knows? You might even win a couple thousand dollars as a bonus.  About the Speaker: Jenny Wang is a pentalingual who grew up in New York City and graduated Bryn Mawr College with a B.A. in East Asian Studies. She transitioned to the technical side of tech after working at ThoughtWorks as a Junior Consultant/Quality Analyst. She learned Ruby, Rails, CSS/HTML, the basics of web development, TDD, agile best practices and all the good stuff at Makers Academy in London. She is passionate about world travel, Quora (she’s a Top Writer), and eating an absurd amount of sushi. She also cares about social justice and is excited to teach at Hackbright to help other women succeed!

Join the VetsinTech Hackathon @Facebook - one of our most popular annual events!! In this full-day event the VetsinTech and Facebook community will come together to support our returning veterans. Teams of approximately 5-10 people will be formed with a variety of skills -the vets can have the idea, help with business plan, marketing or just sit in to audit/participate for educational purposes – coding skills are NOT required. Chosen mentors from the tech community will come together (and to code) and recognize to the unique perspective our returning veterans have to offer.   What is it: The VetsinTech hackathon @ Facebook is a full day business and app development competition. The event’s goal is to invite returning veterans to be part of a team focused on building successful startups around the next generation social, mobile, gaming, ecommerce, health or other applications and to foster a community of (veteran) entrepreneurship. Our veterans can add a unique perspective to many of these types of applications. Registered idea generators are given 1 minute to pitch an app concept to a tech audience on day one. Attending veterans, engineers, designers, marketing and business people as well as our team of glorious mentors pre-select the best ideas that will be developed into applications during the day. Teams are formed around the most promising projects and the competition begins.   What to expect: Expect to find the complimentary skills that help you to connect in the tech community. Be open, share your ideas and don’t hold back – “Ideas without actions are usually called dreams” Expect to meet super talented and inspiring people, to work under time pressure, and to dedicate the whole day! Expect to gain valuable feedback and insight not only from your teammates but also from other participants and the all-star panel of Judges. AGENDA: — 9:00-9:15: Welcome – Facebook + Vets inTech — 9:30-10:00  Breakfast – VIP Speaker - Mike Vernal, VP Facebook  — 10:00-10:30 : Entrepreneurs pitch their business plans and ideas to the group — 10:30-10:45 Break — 11:00-11:30: Team formation — 11:30 – 12:00: Teams begin product and business plan work — 12:00-12:15: Grab lunch! — 12:15 – 1:00pm Keynote Speaker - Ramona Pierson - CEO, DeClara — 1:00 – 2pm - Facebook for Small Business presentation — 2:00-3:00pm: Product and business plan team work — 3:00-6:00pm: FB advisors/mentors and team work — 5:00-6:00pm: Dinner + Speaker - John Gossart, Co-Founder and COO GoodWorld, Inc and founding member of RideScout — 6:00-7:00pm Business presentations to panel of judges - Zack Hargreaves, Founders Fund - Craig Hanson, Next World Capital — 7:15-7:30pm Break (judging) — 7:30-8:30pm Awards!! and Networking      

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Are you a DIY, Hacker, Maker, or Space Enthusiast? Are you interested in coming up with creative solutions to space-related problems, including how to fund your own space–related project or business idea?  Then don’t miss Hack the Moon!   During this two and a half day hackathon, you’ll have the opportunity to work on specific space-related challenges (or one of your choosing), meet some of the best and brightest hackers, makers, students and entrepreneurs, and hone your problem solving and collaborative skills. Site locations include San Jose and Sacramento (Folsom), CA. (or you can participate remotely)   Friday, October 9           7-9 PM Pacific (Opening Session) Saturday, October 10     9-5 and 7-10 Pacific (Hackathon) Sunday, October 11        9-12 and 1-5 (Hackathon, Presentations, Awards) So if you’re a hacker or maker and interested in space, starting a NewSpace company and in need of funding, or simply a space enthusiast and in love with space, get your hack on at Hack the Moon, October 9-11, 2015. It's Your Moon... What Are You Waiting For! 3 Themes - 5 Competitions #1 - A Killer Asteroid An asteroid will destroy all life on Earth in 5 years. How can we redirect the asteroid? Can we build a Lunar lifeboat colony for 10,000 people? #2 - The Yukon Trail To Mars Global space agencies will fly a mission every two years. A million people have $100,000 deposits on Mars homesteads. Layout a 30 year plan for settlement on Mars. Where do we start, what do we do now? #3 - Life In The Ethane Lakes Of Titan We have discovered a new form of life in the cryogenic ethane lakes of Saturn’s moon Titan. Exploring lakes at 90 degrees above absolute zero. How do we build Lunar cryogenic analog labs? 5 Competitions: Writing, Visual Arts, Hardware, Software, Games and Filk Fest (Music)   Real Planetary Data Learn how to find and use the many large, free data sets of real scientific planetary data available to you through the NASA Planetary Data System and other sources. • Planetary Data System • Lunar Moon and Modeling Portal • Google Moon Real Solutions Learn how to use the latest cutting edge tools and techniques in the cloud and on your laptop to access planetary data for fun and profit. We will have training for platforms like: • Google Cloud, Amazon AWS, IBM Bluemix • HP Haven OnDemand, Clusterpoint, Autodesk 3D Real Opportunities Learn how to use the latest in crowd funding and crowd sourcing platforms to fund your project and grow your team. • Crowd Funding - Kickstarter, Krowdster and more • Crowd Sourcing - heroX, topcoder, AngelHack Also, robots, hardware, art and more. Bring your own project!   Looking to fund your own space-related project?  We will also have mentors and coaches on hand to assist you in developing your crowd-funding, Kickstarter program and/or writing your business plan to raise equity funding.  *   *   *   *   * This event is part of the 5th International Workshop on LunarCubes held in San Jose, CA from October 6-9, 2015. To learn more about our LunarCubes workshop, where "The Experts in Lunar Science and Exploration Meet" please visit www.lunar-cubes.com   Free public events during LunarCubes include: New Launch Meets New Space panel discussion (San Jose) Cislunar Navigation Prize announcement (San Jose) The Lunar Renaissance – Challenges, Hackathons & Artwork! (San Jose) Hack the Moon (San Jose and Folsom/Sacramento) Register for each public event separately at Eventbrite: New Launch Meets New Space Cislunar Navigation Prize The Lunar Renaissance - Challenges, Hackathons and Artwork! Hack the Moon - San Jose Hack the Moon - Folsom/Sacramento

Designers, Developers, Mobile, Web, Robotics, Internet of Things... Everyone is welcome to join us to hack for FUN! There will be prizes for standard/serious hacks as well as prizes #outlandishhacks that are a bit more crazy. For the outlandish hacks, these apps can be as crazy as you want so long as you use #kandy_io. A previous team made a "useless helper app" that inverted the video stream. Schedule Friday 6pm - Event Begins, Networking, Pitching, Teams Form, Dinner Saturday 10am - Breakfast Saturday 01pm - Lunch Saturday 06pm - Presentations start Saturday 07pm - Winners Announced Prizes $250 Best Outlandish Idea $250 Best Kandy.io app $250 Best Kandy.io tutorial  $25 Starbucks Gift Cards for new bugs submitted Speakers Alex Donn - Director, Developer Relations, Kandy.io / Genband Sponsors Kandy.io

Looking for a tool to create beautiful fully interactive, animated prototypes? - Take your static designs, wireframes or mockups to the next level with ProtoHack During this workshop, Cole Fox will show you a range of examples from ProtoHack prototype gallery and how to build a quick prototype from scratch that can be tested on the actual device in a native app. What you will learn:  • You will leave with your very own prototype Who is this workshop for: • Software engineers who want to transition to Product Management  • MBAs with a finance/consulting background who want to work in high-tech companies as a Product Manager  • Project Managers, Marketers who are seeking for new opportunities in Product Management     Timeline: 6:30 - 6:45pm: Meet & Greet with Wine & Refreshments 6:45 - 7:45 pm: Presentation & Q&A 7:45 - 8:30 pm: Networking & with Wine & Refreshments Prerequisites:  Bring you own laptop   Meet the speaker: Cole Fox Cole Fox is a Director of Partnerships at Koding & CEO at Protohack. Cole has started and worked for companies that sold used cars, vitamin vodka, office supplies, tech, and now hackathons. His M.O. with any endeavor is to learn, create, master, then share. Cole is a creator at heart, and loves contributing and watching people manifest their vision. The most fulfilling thing in life is to create something that solves a huge problem. Creating and evangelizing tools and experiences that can enable people to create their dreams are his favorite use of his professional efforts.  When not enjoying the heck out of his inspiring career in technology, he's pushing the envelope on snowboards, backpacking and eating ridiculously healthy food. 

$3000 in cash prizes + unlimited food and drinks + expert mentors = Your next amazing project for your portfolio! **Due to the high volume of applicants, we will continually be monitoring and removing disqualified applicants. If there are currently no spots open, please check again later.*** The EdTech Design-A-Thon is a hack-a-thon for designers with clear creative visions and an understanding of online course platforms. Are you able to easily connect to the user experience? Send your portfolio now and be among the top 15 selected to join!   Participants can work alone or form teams. Prizes in the amounts of $1500, $1000, and $500 will be awarded to the top 3 designs.   Unlimited meals and drinks will be provided, and mentors will be at the event to help bring your ideas to life. Selected participants will present their final designs to a panel of judges from GSV, UX Design World, and BeNative.   Applicants must fill out the application AND share a portfolio (website or PDF files) to melissa@smatoos.com bu Thursday, September 24. Selected participants will be notified after review. Failure to send your portfolio will result in being removed from the list, sorry. :( Presentation Participants must give a 3-5 minute presentation on stage to showcase their design. Having excellent speaking skills and a professionally-made slideshow will be extremely important in awarding the winning designs. Please note that all presentations will be filmed and recorded for use on BeNative's educational platform.   Saturday Schedule 10:00 AM | Check-in & Registration 10:30 AM | Welcome & Present Design Prompt and Q&A 11:00 AM | Brainstorming + Ideation + Start working!   6:00 PM| SUBMIT WORK!   6:10 PM| Pitch + Q&A   8:00 PM| Winner Announced + Prize Presented! Social & Networking event to follow   FAQs Are there ID requirements or an age limit to enter the event? You must be 21 or over and have a valid photo ID for verification purposes. What else should I bring? You must bring your own laptop and any other equipment necessary.   Do I need to have experience or any other skills? You should have either a background or experience in design. It's a plus if you have experience or passion in education and languages. As mentioned previously, all participants must send examples of their portfolio to melissa@smatoos.com. Anyone who registers without sending the necessary information will not be invited to attend.   Are there any other requirements? You need to be a fluent English speaker. We will give higher priority to native English speakers, as one of the purposes of this event is to record presentations from native English speakers. A phone call interview may be necessary to determine acceptance to the event. Can I bring guests with me? Unfortunately, no. As we have limited space, only participants will be allowed entrance.  Is there parking available? Yes, we have free parking available at the event. Where can I contact the organizer with any questions? Please direct all questions to melissa@smatoos.com. About BeNative BeNative™ helps American and European businesses connect to the powerful and growing markets of Asia. We provide product localization, market research, promotional materials (video and social media), legal representation, as well as fundraising opportunities through our vast network of Asian-based VCs. Video materials are featured on BeNative Pro, an e-learning service that teaches business English and Chinese from the interviews and interactions of real businesspeople, making it a 100% natural and authentic language-learning experience. Business executives are filmed regularly, growing a massive database of phrases and vocabulary. This set of big data is then analyzed and curated using unique text mining techniques to find the most commonly used phrases spoken in business.  Interviews of note include Dr. Clayton Christensen of Harvard Business School and Bob Lutz of GM as well as other execs from IBM, PayPal, Box, 3M, Kimberley-Clark, and more. Customers include employees from over 2000 companies and more than 2 million followers on social media platforms. BeNative operates offices in China, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and the USA.

The Integrate 2015 Hackathon invites developers to build as many integration-centric and API-centric apps within one weekend as possible. Participants are free to build any type of web or mobile app as long as they start design / development Saturday at 9:00 AM! There will be $50,000+ in prizes and we expect hundreds of designers, developers, and entrepreneurs to attend. The Integrate 2015 Hackathon is the kick-off to the Integrate 2015 Conference!   We also ask all participants to be in compliance with the Hack Code of Conduct Terms.   By registering for Integrate 2015 and its conference tracks, you agree that Integrate 2015 top-level partners can send you non-subscription one-time announcements relevant to your event participation including invitations to relevant partner events or featured speakers. Please complete this form if you want to remove yourself from all partner announcements / promotions. All Integrate Partners contractually agree with Integrate that they will not subscribe you to any email list.   Subscription: By registering for this event, you are opting into DevNetwork email updates. These updates will notify you about Integrate 2015 news as well as announcements about DevNetwork events. You can opt out of this email newsletter at any time.