List of hackathons in Santa Cruz, United States in 2016

Are you an API whiz? Come and participate in a special hackathon and hack around three new APIs provided by Akeneo, OpenIO and Sevenhugs! The challenge! Use one of the three featured APIs to create brand new use cases. Akeneo is a Product Information Management platform; OpenIO is an Object Storage API; and Sevenhugs Smart Remote offers multi-device control from a touchscreen interface. There will be three tracks with a different API for each. Each team compete in one track only for the prizes for that track!

Meet daily to train while creating a mobile app for iOS or Android. For iOS, plan to use Xcode. For Android, plan to use Android Studio.  The time is also used to prep for upcoming hackathons that occur on the weekends or on new technology devices.

The BASEhacks hackathon is hosted by Sara Subbanna from Silicon Valley to create an app, website, or device that solves a problem for students in high school or middle school that is marketable. This events wants to encourage computer science knowledge in high schoolers and allow students to test and compete! This will be a weekend long crash course in entrepreneurship for coders to learn about monetization, marketing, user experience and more. You will learn skills that will allow you to see your tech ideas come true, you will contribute to promoting engineering education and gender/racial diversity, and advocate entrepreneurship for young, ambitious innovators, hopefully allowing them to create a positive impact on the lives of others!

This event welcomes all bootstrapped founders, engineers, business hackers, students, and mentors/investors interested in tech. Guests seeking to launch a startup across platform and industry will enjoy this chance to mingle and network with potential founder, partner or investors along top industry leaders. The example of Work that will need to be completed during this hackathon would be: a) - Team have a very complex solution to a very large market and cannot create an MVP in two days (in this case work together to complete a compelling pitch deck by sunday 6pm) and submit/add it to your application b) - Team have a very simple solution to common problem and can create an MVP in two days (in this case work together to complete your minimum viable product by sunday 6pm).and submit/add it to your application The winners of the hackathon will receive acceptance to OneTraction with sponsored Funding by top VC, Tech Corporate Venture or our Mentor Investors for $25k to $250k contingent on graduation, along inclusion in Press Release and featured on the sites.

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!

This hackathon is inviting all developers, engineers, entrepreneurs, students, techies, activists, designers and citizens of San Mateo County to come and participate in an all-day competition to use open data and technology to create web and mobile apps that improve the communities. Your ticket will include breakfast, lunch, a t-shirt and some cool door prizes such as LIFX Lightbulb for the first 50 "Early Bird" participants to register, $49 Amazon Web Service Credit for the first 100 participants to register, Membership in Microsoft's BizSpark program, which includes licenses and discounts for Microsoft software, and lots more!

Join this event to learn about IoT Payments with experts from US Bank, IFTTT, Samsung and Visa. The Smart Things Hackathon by Samsung Smart Things invites you and fellow hackers to build, in 24-hours, awesome software that uses/connects/controls SmartThings devices. The topics for this hackathon include: smart home, health care, pet care, elder care, energy management, small business, security, and property management.

This a a hackathon that will take place on a bus to conceive, build and launch a startup with a team of strangers in 72 hours at 70 mph. StartupBus Americas VII is inviting the best and the brightest to come and compete on a road trip and create the ultimate adventure on wheels. At the end of the event you will pitch your project to Techstars on stage at Boulder Startup Week. You'll be hitting all the raddest hot spots and tech shops as on the way to Boulder Startup Week, where buses from US, Canada and Mexico will converge in the quest for StartupBus glory. This year the San Francisco Bus will depart from SOMA on Sunday May 15th then stop in Vegas, SL City and finally arrive in Boulder on the 17th where finalists will get the chance to pitch at the historic Boulder Theater.

The Stupid Hackathon is organized purely for fun! Your projects will be purely judged by hilarity, uselessness, and fun factor! Work diligently on projects that make no sense at all. Make something we will all regret!

Wanted disruptors! If you're an aspiring entrepreneur with an idea that could disrupt the status quo--and make our lives better--then sign up for Hacking Transportation: @StartupBusSF and @UberDevelopers. StartupBus is an annual competition that challenges top tier talent to hop on a bus and conceive, build and launch a startup in 72 hours. Starting in San Francisco, participants will compete with fellow travelers on buses from 5 other cities, to see who can create the most innovative business to pitch on stage at Techstars' Boulder Startup Week.